2024 Grants

Advocacy

AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
$74,345
A one-year grant in support of Pride Action Tank’s efforts to engage LGBTQ+ older adults through advocacy, storytelling, and policy implementation to address disparities and promote inclusion.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation
Washington, D.C.
$250,000
An 18-month grant to continue successful efforts to strengthen tenant organizing through support of a federal and state housing justice campaign led by older tenants.

Caring Across Generations
New York, New York
$100,000
A third-year grant to improve the care infrastructure that older adults, families, and caregivers confront by building robust policy models at the state level nationally, and specifically within Illinois.

Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc.
Willimantic, Connecticut
$240,000
A three-year grant for continued general operating support to preserve, protect, and enhance the Medicare program that older people depend on for affordable health care.

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois
$75,000
A one-year grant to provide data-focused research to local organizations addressing current housing challenges facing older adults, with a focus on supporting organizations on Chicago’s South and West Sides.

Foundation for Social Connection
Washington, D.C.
$373,780
A three-year grant to mobilize comprehensive advocacy efforts that seek to secure critical support for programs that enhance the well-being and connectedness for older Americans.

Grantmakers in Aging
White Plains, New York
$265,000
An 18-month grant for phase two of Changing the Care Conversation, a collaborative initiative designed to ensure equitable family caregiving policies are advanced at the state and national level by empowering state-based caregiving coalitions to advocate for family caregiving issues.

Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
Chicago, Illinois
$175,000
A one year grant to continue the process of developing a Multi-Sector Plan on Aging equity for Illinois through the Illinois Aging Together campaign.

Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly
Chicago, Illinois
$65,000
A one-year grant to support coalition-building for Fix Our Homes Illinois, a coalition focused on expanding and improving public home-repair resources and services for low-income older homeowners throughout the state.

Illinois Aging Services, Inc.
Springfield, Illinois
$93,500
A second-year grant to continue advocacy efforts for increased resources and supports for family caregivers throughout Illinois.

Injustice Watch, NFP
Chicago, Illinois
$75,000
A third-year grant to produce investigative journalism examining issues of equity and justice within aging communities.

Justice in Aging
Washington, D.C. 
$375,000
A three-year grant to secure access to economic security for older adults with limited resources.

Kenwood Oakland Community Organization
Chicago, Illinois
$100,000
A one-year grant to organize and unite older adults to take collective action and advocate for a “Senior Bill of Rights” for public housing in Chicago and Illinois.

Medicare Rights Center
New York, New York
$240,000
A three-year grant for continued general operating support to expand access to MRC’s services and amplify policy solutions to improve Medicare coverage, particularly for underserved older people.

Michael Reese Health Trust
Elgin, Illinois
$15,000
A six-month grant to to raise awareness about the urgent need for affordable housing and support services for people experiencing homelessness across Chicago, including older adults.

National Academy of Social Insurance
Washington, D.C.
$50,000
A one-year grant to engage in narrative change and disseminate information to protect, secure, and strengthen Social Security for current and future generations of older adults.

National Alliance to End Homelessness
Washington, D.C.
$109,700
A third-year grant continuing to address the challenge of homelessness among older adults.

National Consumer Law Center
Boston, Massachusetts
$574,502
A two-year grant to lead a strategic initiative, involving research, training, coalition-building and advocacy, to protect older adults against the consequences of medical and student loan debt that undermine economic security in later life.

National Council on Aging, Inc.
Arlington, Virginia
$300,000
A two-year grant to support efforts to reauthorize, modernize, and fund the Older Americans Act (OAA).

Pension Rights Center
Washington, D.C.
$240,000
A three-year grant for continued general operating support to ensure the protection of pension benefits and reform of the pension system for older workers and retirees.

Shriver Center on Poverty Law
Chicago, Illinois
$300,000
A three-year general operating support grant for efforts that support older people.

Southside Together
Chicago, Illinois
$50,000
A one-year grant to expand intergenerational organizing as part of a merger between two organizations committed to community organizing on the south side of Chicago.

Twin Cities Public Television Inc.
St. Paul, Minnesota
$101,789
A one-year grant to publish and widely disseminate a year-long series of original, research-grounded, actionable articles aimed at raising awareness about the prevalence and risks of debt among older adults as well as potential solutions.