Next50 is proud to announce $1.7 million in investments to organizations across the country that are innovating to make aging more affordable and equitable. We are announcing our partnership with thirteen organizations that are working to create a world that values aging.
This year, we are dedicated to funding innovative ideas that build resilience and change systems in Colorado and the country to create economic opportunities for older adults. 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 first period of 2026:
Aging While Black (Colorado, $200,000 over two years) works to improve the lives of Black older adults. Funding will allow them to work with Montbello community members to design a two-year pilot focused on digital equity, peer navigation, and creating third spaces. By creating meaningful and culturally grounded community, this work will enable Black older adults to affordably age in the Denver community they call home.
Alaska Public Interest Research Group (Alaska, $50,000) will bring digital literacy and economic skills to Alaska Native elders. Economic opportunity has moved out of many remote Alaskan villages, leaving older adults without many pathways toward economic wellbeing. This project will train younger adults to teach digital skills in native languages, thus bridging the cultural and digital divide that prevents Alaska Native elders from participating in the wider economy.
The American Society on Aging (National, $80,000) convenes the nation’s largest multisector community of professionals working in aging. This Sponsorship will support keynote speakers and learning sessions at their annual On Aging conference.
Anthos Home (New York, $200,000 over two years) focuses on the twin issues of homelessness and housing voucher under-utilization. Their proposed project will change aging in New York City by designing and implementing a streamlined pathway to permanent housing for older adults experiencing homelessness. Over two grant years, they will provide wraparound services and assistance in using housing vouchers to 200 older adults.
The Biennial of the Americas (Colorado, $50,000 over two years) builds awareness and creates cultural exchange across the Americas through arts, culture, and civic leadership. Funding will help the organization launch an aging empathy initiative, which will bring aging into spaces where it has historically been excluded from the conversation. This Partnership with Next50 seeks to end ageism and change how organizations, employers, and policymakers engage older adults.
Community Resource Center (Colorado, $25,000) is dedicated to building the capacity of Colorado’s nonprofit sector. This sponsorship will support their Rural Action Network and Rural Philanthropy Days, both of which bring together nonprofits and funders to tackle issues in rural parts of the state to identify and address systemic challenges.
Cooperating Ministry of Logan County (Colorado, $50,000) assists families in rural Logan County through a litany of services, including a food pantry, homelessness prevention services, transportation vouchers, and more. The Colorado Organizational Resiliency grant will enable the organization to hire a part-time grant writer, helping them seek new and more sustainable sources of funding. This funding will make them stronger and more capable of providing services to the older adults of their community.
Denver Film (Colorado, $50,000) is a nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to advancing cinematic arts and fostering diverse storytelling. Next50’s Sponsorship will support three of the year’s movie festivals, bringing diverse and meaningful stories of older adults to the big screen to change how we think about aging and getting older.
National Adult Day Services Association (Virginia, $50,000) is the national voice for more than 550 adult day service providers across the United States, with a mission of advancing services through education, policy, and systems development. Changing Aging funding will help them develop, pilot, and disseminate both a Policy Education & Systems Toolkit and a Workforce Development Framework. These will equip providers nationwide with the necessary tools to demonstrate the cost savings and importance of adult day services.
Northpointe Development Corporation (Colorado, $500,000) is developing Scott Street Senior Apartments, a 40-unit affordable housing community for adults 55+ in Salida, an underserved town in rural Colorado. Next50 is making a Program-Related Investment (PRI) to enable the organization to receive the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. This housing community will change aging by creating the first affordable, accessible, and stable housing specifically designed for older adults, allowing them the freedom to age in the place and community in which they have long lived.
Rocky Mountain Welcome Center (Colorado, $40,000) is an immigrant-led nonprofit that strengthens the economic stability, health, and long-term resilience of refugees, immigrants, and their families. This COR grant will help them launch a new data-informed fundraising approach designed to navigate a shifting funding environment, with the goal of keeping them stable to support their older adult clients.
Silver Thread Public Health District (Colorado, $335,166 over two years) will use Changing Aging funding to serve Hinsdale County and Mineral County, a remote mountain region with no access to hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, and the like. This program will train public health workers to serve older adults directly in their homes, reducing the need to travel hours away to receive care. These staff members will also be able to administer safety assessments and help clients apply for benefits, all of which will make aging safer and more affordable in an underserved, frontier part of Colorado.
Zion Senior and Community Resource Center (Colorado, $50,000 over two years) is a trusted anchor for older adults and families in Denver’s Northeast Park Hill neighborhood. COR funding will help the organization work with consultants to develop a strategic plan, a communications plan, and a funding strategy in order to best serve the older adults in their area.
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