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Improving California's Aging Services and Long Term Care System - Blueprint for Partnerships Between California Foundations and State Policymakers

Publication date: 
04/2011
This Blueprint represents a coordinated effort by seven California foundations to highlight how foundations might engage in collaboration and partnership with state policymakers to address the issues and respond to the challenges facing the ALTC system in California.
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Best Practice
Audience: 
Nonprofit Staff
Policy Makers
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking Issue
Funding Area: 
Aging

The Maturing of America - Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population

Publication date: 
06/2011
A nationwide survey: “The Maturing of America—Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population.” The survey, administered in 2010 by ICMA, with more than 1,400 local governments responding out of over 10,000 that received it, was intended to assess progress against benchmarks established in the first “Maturing of America” survey conducted in 2005. In both cases, the findings were eye-opening.
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Report
Audience: 
Nonprofit Staff
Policy Makers
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking Issue
Funding Area: 
Aging

The Maturing of America - Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population

Publication date: 
06/2011
A nationwide survey: “The Maturing of America—Communities Moving Forward for an Aging Population.” The survey, administered in 2010 by ICMA, with more than 1,400 local governments responding out of over 10,000 that received it, was intended to assess progress against benchmarks established in the first “Maturing of America” survey conducted in 2005. In both cases, the findings were eye-opening.
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Resource type: 
Report
Audience: 
Nonprofit Staff
Policy Makers
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking Issue
Funding Area: 
Aging

Baseline Survey Report for EngAGEment Initiative

Publication date: 
06/2011
To establish a baseline of information, this past June 2011, the Council surveyed its members and non-members to determine their current “aging” awareness, activities and future programming ideas. This baseline survey was conducted as part of the Council's work on the EngAGEment Initiative, a national program led by Grantmakers in Aging (GIA) on philanthropy and aging issues. The overall goal of this two-year initiative is to build Connecticut Funders’ understanding, interest and momentum around aging issues.
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Resource type: 
Survey Summary
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking Issue
Funding Area: 
Aging

2-1-1 Barometer: Connecticut's Older Adults

Publication date: 
10/2011
Ensuring that older adults remain connected to needed resources is essential to community-based strategies for this growing segment of our population. This 2-1-1 Barometer reviews the thousands of calls 2-1-1 receives annually from older adults or their family members for resources and programs designed to assist older adults, including some interesting United Way initiatives aimed at aging in place.
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Resource type: 
Report
Audience: 
Nonprofit Staff
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking Issue
Funding Area: 
Aging

Aging Ready Communities - Challenges, Opportunities, National and Local Models - November 30, 2011

Publication date: 
11/2011
Aging in place experts, Philip B. Stafford, Ph.D., Director of the Center on Aging and Community at Indiana Institute on Disability and Community at Indiana University, and Mia Oberlink, M.A., Project Director, Community Innovations for Aging in Place Initiative TAG Team and Senior Research Associate for the Center for Home Care Policy and Research, Visiting Nurse Services of New York, shared their insight and knowledge about the positive influences, productive potential and healthy benefits of aging-ready communities.
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Meeting Notes
Past Program Materials
Audience: 
Policy Makers
Topic(s): 
Grantmaking Issue
Funding Area: 
Aging

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