Meet the changemakers helping us reimagine aging in America. We’re thrilled to announce over 1.5 million dollars in new investments to organizations that are transforming how we think about and experience growing older.
At Next50, we believe in a world that values aging. We seek innovative, equitable ideas that build resilience and change systems to create opportunities for older adults and the organizations supporting them. Our approach combines grantmaking, sponsorships, and impact investing to support impactful services, practical research, effective policy, and narrative change.
While our funding is invitation-based, we’d love to hear from any organization working to create economic opportunities for older adults. Schedule a meeting with one of our Community Impact Managers to explore possibilities!
Listed below are the organizations that received funding in the second quarter of 2025:
1Community (Washington, DC; $15,000) is an entertainment production company that utilizes the power of storytelling to drive real-world impact. This sponsorship will allow 1Community to leverage their movie Nonnas to tell positive stories of aging, reduce loneliness and isolation, and reshape the aging narrative. The interactive website “Stories from the Table” will help to end ageism and expand digital equity through its multicultural and intentional lens around aging women.
A Little Help (Colorado; $65,000) is a village organization that serves older adults across Denver and parts of Northern Colorado. This Colorado Organizational Resiliency grant will enable them to build a phone application to support the older adults and volunteers they work with. This application will create a more efficient system for staff, an easier request system for older adults, and a more interactive system for volunteers. A Little Help is already dedicated to helping older adults age in place, and this project will only increase their ability to continue making it more affordable to do so.
Aging While Black (National; $5,000) is a movement dedicated to improving aging for Black elders across the United States. This sponsorship helped the organization put on their Denver Black Aging Summit to share their learnings and core pillars with nonprofits and community members in the metro area.
The American Society on Aging (National; $10,000) utilized this sponsorship to support their On Aging 2025 conference, the largest multidisciplinary conference about aging. Next50’s funding supported the creation of an interactive mural that invited attendees to share their responses to different prompts about ageism. This mural supported the conference’s theme and Next50’s priority area of ending ageism by inviting reflection and conversation.
Caregiver Connections (Colorado; $60,000 over two years) serves older adults and their caregivers living in rural Eagle County through connections to necessary services and programs. With the work of their partners – Eagle Valley Community Foundation and the MIRA program – this COR grant will allow them to expand these caregiver services to the local Hispanic population. This grant will help Caregiver Connections provide education, respite care, community support, and more to reduce the cost of aging and support the economic wellbeing of older adults and those who care for them.
The Center on Colfax (Colorado; $75,000) runs a program for LGBTQ older adults called West of 50 that provides social support and connection to the local community. In response to requests from participants and a changing social climate, the Center will use COR funding to hire a case manager who specifically serves the older LGBTQ community. This will allow the organization to respond more effectively to clients’ needs in healthcare, employment, housing, and more, thus empowering older adults to affordably age in place.
Elevated Community Health (Colorado; $10,000) is a health center that serves uninsured, predominantly Hispanic clients in the rural area of Frisco, Colorado. They run a dental program for older adults that provides services for little to no cost, a portion of which is funded by the state. COR funding will allow them to increase their outreach and ramp up their dental services in order to get more state funding for the next fiscal year. Providing low to no cost dental services helps older adults afford necessary healthcare procedures, making it more affordable to age in their communities.
Energy Resource Center (Colorado; $150,000) is an organization that focuses on energy conservation throughout the state by providing energy efficient upgrades to low-income older adults, veterans, and disabled individuals. They will use this COR grant to purchase a box truck and tools in order to help the rural older adults who are on their ever-growing waitlist. These energy upgrades help clients save an average of 25% on their annual utility bills, making it more affordable to age in place in Northeastern Colorado.
Fountain Valley Senior Health (Colorado; $8,828.82) works to improve the lives of aging adults in southern El Paso County and the Fountain Valley area. Older adults flock to this organization because it provides transportation to and from their facility, easing the burden of traveling in a rural area. However, one of their ADA vehicles unexpectedly needs to have a transmission replaced, without which they are unable to continue providing services. This Sudden & Urgent Need grant will help Fountain Valley Senior Health secure a new transmission to keep helping older adults for years to come.
Grantmakers in Aging (National; $10,000): runs an annual national conference that Next50 will be sponsoring. They work to bring together grantmakers in the aging space to discuss, among other topics, Nex50’s priority areas, like aging in place, digital equity, and ending ageism.
Grantmakers in Aging (National; $250,000) is partnering with Next50 to launch a national campaign that will elevate aging issues within federal policymaking. This work will change aging by mobilizing Congressional engagement and delivering targeted advocacy with the goal of protecting critical programs like the Older Americans Act, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Through their partnership with other leading aging organizations and grassroots nonprofits, GIA aims to secure the economic well-being of older adults from all mission-aligned populations by ensuring our country’s commitment to helping people age with dignity.
Gunnison County Department of Health and Human Services (Colorado; $20,000) is an integrated public health and human services agency. Changing Aging funds will be used to support the addition of a Senior Resource Specialist position with the multicultural resources team. This will change aging for the community by providing culturally sensitive aging resources to support the local Hispanic and Latino populations. This work will advocate for increased access to culturally appropriate services and identify unique barriers these older adults might face to independently age in place.
HIV Care Link (Colorado; $50,000) helps people living with HIV/AIDS receive services, connect to healthcare, and obtain needed support. Their case management work helps older adults create action plans to access healthcare, treatment, housing, social support, and other resources needed to keep them from living in institutionalized settings. This COR grant will provide funding for HIV Care Link to implement the TherapyNotes software, switching from paper case notes and recordkeeping to a more efficient digital database.
Montessori Intergenerational Learning Communities (Colorado; $50,000) is an educational training and employment support program that addresses workforce development for older adults by including them in the early childhood education field. Training is provided to prepare older adults over the age of 50 to become qualified substitute teachers, floaters, and classroom assistants in licensed ECE facilities. Changing Aging funding will allow this organization to expand their work to rural parts of Colorado, where hiring an adequate ECE workforce has posed an issue. This will provide economic benefits to participating older adults while working to reduce ageism within the school system
Senior Social Center (Colorado; $50,000) is an organization that serves low-income older adults in rural Moffat County. They have a part-time Resource Navigator to help clients apply for and access benefits and other means of making aging more affordable. However, the need for this service has grown and grown as older adults are looking to age in their rural community. This grant will provide the salary for a full-time Resource Navigator, helping this organization serve more and more older adults who are expressing a need for this kind of assistance.
Springs Rescue Mission (Colorado; $300,000 over two years) is dedicated to providing health, employment, and housing support for unhoused older adults in Colorado Springs. COR funds will be used to hire staff that will manage strategies and programs that support two priority populations of older adults: people with disabilities and those experiencing homelessness. This work will create new and streamlined referral systems and partnerships, which will improve Springs Rescue Mission’s ability to serve a growing population of unhoused older adults.
Stackwell Capital Advisors ($300,000 over two years) is dedicated to improving the economic wellbeing of Americans of color by providing financial education through participation in the stock market. This innovative project is a partnership with Next50 and the Savings Collaborative to run a two-year pilot program in rural Colorado with the goal of building investor confidence and closing the racial wealth gap. Older adults will gain the skills needed to invest wisely, improve their economic wellbeing, and make it more affordable for them to age in place – the rural communities they call home.
Woodland Park Senior Organization (Colorado; $4,675.18) is a senior center that serves a rural population of older adults in Woodland Park. Four of their windows no longer open, posing a safety threat to their exercise room and their kitchen. This Sudden & Urgent Grant will allow them to replace these windows, creating a safer environment for older adults & employees.
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