In 2025, Next50 awarded over $5 million in grants through its Changing Aging grant program. Organizations from Colorado and across the country are receiving funding to catalyze Next50’s mission-aligned ideas that support older adults in historically marginalized or geographically underserved communities.

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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.

AgeWell Middle Tennessee (Tennessee, $50,000) is a Nashville-based organization that focuses on creating innovative solutions to meet the financial needs of older adults and their caregivers. Funding will support AgeWell’s RESET program, which is a collaboration between six financial service providers who have created a “no wrong door” approach to connect older adults with different kinds of financial assistance. This program will primarily focus on helping older Black women who live on fixed incomes to access benefits, increase savings, and reduce debt.

Aging While Black ($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.

Alzheimer’s Los Angeles (California, $50,000) is on a mission to improve the lives of local families affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementias by increasing awareness, delivering services, and advocating for quality care and a cure. Next50 is sponsoring their newest endeavor: “Holding the Pieces,” a series targeted to African American caregivers and families who have a loved one with Alzheimer’s to encourage talking to a doctor and seeking out necessary resources. This sponsorship will aid in the dissemination and publication of this series.

American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education (Illinois, $60,000) will partner with Gulfcoast Legal Services to educate and equip lawyers and other advocates with the tools necessary to prevent homelessness among older adults. This project is being created to help low income and other marginalized older adults age in place without facing the risk of homelessness. This work could impact systems change at a higher level due to its potential for replicability in other communities across the country.

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.

Boulder Community Housing Corporation (Colorado, $113,000 over three years) will embark on a three-year project to instate hoarding intervention training for staff in order to help clients maintain stable housing. This project aims to help low-income older adults stay economically secure by addressing the root causes of hoarding and helping them stay housed independently for longer.

California Health Report, a project with Tides Fund (California, $150,000) produces solutions-focused journalism to address health equity issues, with coverage focusing specifically on marginalized populations across California. This Changing Aging grant will allow them to hire a reporter who is dedicated to covering aging-related topics, which can reshape how aging is understood, addressed, and legislated in California and beyond. This grant has the potential to impact the economic well-being of older adults at a policy level due to their journalism’s reach among state lawmakers.

CARE Fund, a project with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (National, $100,000) is a national pooled fund that brings together major philanthropic partners to strengthen the care ecosystem across the lifespan. Next50’s partnership will help the CARE fund in their work to expand access to long-term services and supports, improve job quality in direct care roles, and increase public investment in aging and disability services.  

Caring Across Generations (New York, $15,000) is a national organization of family caregivers, care workers, disabled people, and aging adults working to transform the way we care in this country. Next50 contributed as a sponsor of their annual conference, Care Fest 2025. This year’s conference is specifically focused on stories about disability, immigrant, and rural experiences.

Center for Employment Opportunities (Colorado, $150,000) provides employment services to older adults returning home from incarceration. Next50 funding will help this organization develop new technology-based tools that will expand digital access and workforce readiness skills. This work greatly impacts the economic well-being of older adults, particularly those who are Black and Hispanic, by preparing them for jobs that require adequate digital knowledge.

Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (Colorado, $200,000 over two years) partners with consumers and advocacy organizations across Colorado to identify healthcare system issues and develop improvement strategies, all with the goal of promoting health literacy and reducing medical debt. Next50 funding will allow CCHI to expand into southwest Colorado, bringing their Consumer Assistance Program to rural Coloradans. Their work helping older adults manage medical billing and enroll in public health insurance programs will make it more affordable to age in place – without the hefty price tag of medical debt.

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (Colorado, $750,000 over three years) will embark on a three-year project to expand dementia-capable respite care across the state. This Changing Aging grant will create criteria for respite care providers, ensuring that older adults and their family caregivers are getting the best, most equitable dementia care. This project will impact the economic well-being of families by offering affordable respite options that can help caregivers maintain employment and reduce health-related costs.

Commún Denver (Colorado, $227,332 over two years) addresses gentrification and displacement within a low-income, Hispanic community on the historic Loretto Heights campus. This Changing Aging grant reimagines economic development by integrating older adults into the community through small business incubation programs, financial empowerment courses, workforce coaching, and digital literacy courses. These programs will provide new and innovative ways for older adults to age in place

Community Resource Center (Colorado, $25,000) is an organization dedicated to building the capacity of Colorado’s nonprofit sector. This sponsorship will support their Rural Action Network, which brings together nonprofits and funders to tackle issues in rural parts of the state to identify and address systemic challenges. With programs such as Rural Philanthropy Days, Virtual Funder Roundtables, and more, these funds will widen the impact on nonprofits serving older adults across rural Colorado.

Consumer Technology Association Foundation (Virginia, $75,000) is an organization that links older adults and people with disabilities to technology that enhances their lives. This sponsorship will support the CES 2026 conference and their pitch competition that showcases life changing technology for older adults.

Denver Film (Colorado, $50,000) hosts diverse films and film festivals, highlighting stories of people from a variety of backgrounds, ages, genders, and experiences. Next50 will sponsor three film festivals (Women + Film, CinemaQ, Denver Film Festival) and multiple showings within each festival that cultivate a positive perception of aging. Thanks to the wide range of audience members that attend each event, ageist beliefs will be challenged and well-rounded stories of aging will be shared.

Eaton Senior Communities Foundation (Colorado, $70,260 over two years) provides older adults with a variety of affordable living choices, programs, and activities that enrich their lives and help them age in place. For the last eight years, Eaton has been developing REACH, an interview tool that captures health and wellness information across the eight dimensions of wellness. This Changing Aging grant will allow them to bring on two DU researchers to analyze their years of data and publish a white paper that seeks to show how housing, healthcare, and quality of life impact health equity for older adults.

Family Caregiver Center of New Mexico (New Mexico, $105,000 over three years) is New Mexico’s only community-based organization dedicated to supporting caregivers, which they do through care navigation, support groups, and educational tools. The Changing Aging grant will allow them to create a virtual platform that connects caregivers with each other and with helpful resources. This work will impact the economic wellbeing of caregivers by providing access to financial assistance programs, financial planning, and other resources needed to maintain their jobs and secure financial independence.

First Southwest Community Fund (Colorado, $500,000) is a partner in creating the Colorado Nonprofit Bridge Loan Fund that is designed to provide short-term, low-cost loans to nonprofits awaiting government reimbursements. Alongside the Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, the Colorado Trust, and the Boettcher Foundation,  Next50 will provide a Program-Related Investment (PRI) that ensures nonprofits serving marginalized older adults can continue their operations. The bridge loans will prevent service disruptions, layoffs, and financial strain on nonprofits. These bridge loans will support the economic stability of older adults and the organizations who service them in rural and low-income areas across Colorado.

Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (California, $134,600) works to reinvent and transform how the media industry tells stories about marginalized communities, with a specific focus on women. Changing Aging funding will allow them to develop a comprehensive analysis of how older women are portrayed in television and film, as well as to create a new feature that helps writers spot ageist tropes and biases in scripts before they reach production. This work seeks to end ageism by analyzing and preventing biased portrayals of older women in the media with the goal of shifting how we view and portray aging.

GenPride (Washington, $215,000 over two years) is the first and only organization in Washington to exclusively serve LGBTQ+ older adults. With a Next50 grant, GenPride will launch a PrideReady Training Series that will provide culturally relevant and responsive training to nonprofits and for-profits across Seattle. Their model of providing LGBTQ-focused training for older adult-serving organizations, and older adult-focused training for LGBTQ-serving organizations, will change aging from the top of organizations all the way down to the individual clients.

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 wellbeing of older adults from all mission-aligned populations by ensuring our country’s commitment to helping people age with dignity.

Gratitude Care Services, Inc. (Colorado, $50,000) is a nonprofit committed to enhancing the quality of life for immigrant communities with a particular focus on older adults. Changing Aging funding will allow them to create digital literacy classes that promote digital equity and economic resilience for their clients.

Greater Purpose Media, a project with Denver Film (Colorado, $50,000) has partnered with Denver Film to create a project that highlights how ageism intersects with race and gender. Funding will support a new documentary that tackles the economic vulnerability that Black women face due to decades of system inequities in wages, caregiving, access to capital, and housing. This project seeks to reframe aging as not an individual financial failure, but rather as a systemic crisis.

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.

Hawai’i Public Health Institute (Hawaii, $257,000 over two years) will work in partnership with the University of Hawai’i Center on Aging to launch the Affordable Aging Innovation Hub. This project will identify and create practices that are rooted in culture and driven by community in order to make aging more affordable for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander older adults. With a specific focus on affordable housing, health, and community practices, this work will promote low-cost supports to help reduce reliance on costly care alternatives.

History Colorado (Colorado, $75,000) is leading the charge to celebrate Colorado’s 150^th anniversary. They are running ‘A Portrait of Colorado 150,’ an oral history project that will record and amplify 150 stories from 150 Coloradans. A portrait of Colorado 150 will collaborate closely with individuals and communities to document, preserve, and shareinclusive stories across Colorado. Older adults have shaped our state’s history. As Colorado celebrates 150 years of statehood, Next50’s sponsorship will contribute to History Colorado’s project that records their contributions because every generation’s story has value.

History Colorado (Colorado, $100,000) is also embarking on two big legislature-directed projects: the Colorado Black Equity Study and American Indian Boarding School research. With a grant from Next50, both of these initiatives will uncover historic harms against Black Coloradans and Indigenous communities by centering older adults’ voices through listening sessions and collecting oral histories.  

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.

HelpAge USA (Washington D.C, $10,000) is an organization that works to reduce poverty and discrimination in later life by advancing the well-being, rights, and inclusion of older adults in the country and around the world. They are celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the Beijing Declaration – where Hillary Clinton famously declared that “women’s rights are human rights” – with a new panel called Older Women as Trailblazers, Then and Now. This event will work to combat ageism and highlight the economic impacts of aging both nationally and internationally.

Hope Renovations (North Carolina, $180,000) is a North Carolina-based organization that provides hands-on construction training and apprenticeships for women and gender nonconforming individuals, with a particular focus on home renovations to help older adults age in place. Next50 funding will enable them to hire a project manager and a crew lead to oversee their expansion into rural and Black populations who live in and surrounding Chapel Hill. These innovative renovations will help restore the livability and economic sustainability of the older adults in their area.

India Home (New York, $200,000 over two years) is dedicated to addressing the needs of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean older adult immigrant communities in New York City. This Changing Aging grant will help them to create a Robo Pantry, which allows older adults to independently access fresh food in their local community during nontraditional hours. Food insecurity rates are high in the Jamaica, Queens neighborhood, and this innovative solution will help older adults on a fixed income access fresh food for free.

Kavod Senior Life (Colorado, $257,703 over two  years) is a HUD affordable housing provider that currently houses more than 400 older adult residents in Denver. For this Changing Aging grant, Kavod will be the first HUD building to integrate CAPABLE, which is an evidence-backed program that supports aging in place through a combination of work with an RN, an OT, and with home renovations. Studies have shown that a $3,000 investment in CAPABLE yield more than $30,000 in medical savings per older adult, which will have a huge impact on the low-income older adults residing in Kavod.

Memory Care Alliance of New Mexico (New Mexico, $60,000 over two years) brings dementia care to families and older adults of marginalized populations across New Mexico. Over the next three years, this organization will work with three new pueblos to establish communities of caregivers on tribal lands, populations that have long been underserved. This will impact the economic well-being of older adults and caregivers by giving them the tools needed to control their own health as it aligns with their values and traditions.

Milken Institute (National, $450,000 over three years) will create a Longevity Readiness Dashboard that will generate a comprehensive dataset on cultural perceptions of aging, ageism, financial readiness, and caregiving. This initiative seeks to change aging by shaping how the United States understands and responds to its aging population by generating the evidence needed to transform policy and workforce practices.

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.

Multicultural AIDS Coalition (Massachusetts, $225,000 over two years) has spent thirty-five years delivering culturally appropriate HIV care and substance misuse prevention to residents of color in the Boston area. In partnership with the Fenway Institute, MAC will launch a new initiative that aims to document the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ older adults while connecting them to necessary benefits. This work will culminate in a brief that delivers three to five policy recommendations to health and aging agencies across New England to inform their practice to improve the economic well-being of older adults.

The National Academy of Social Insurance (Washington, D.C., $300,000 over two years) is a network of more than 1,300 of America’s leading social insurance experts. Four of the biggest players have come together to create a collaboration called Social Security Rapid Response Collaborative, which will support a messaging, research, and advocacy campaign to provide infrastructure to protect Social Security from current and future threats. This work will greatly impact the economic wellbeing of older adults across the country who rely on the financial benefits provided by Social Security.

Nevada Senior Services (Nevada, $5,000) is a Las Vegas-based nonprofit that supports older adults aging in place. They host the Engaging with Aging conference, which explores innovative solutions for aging services and how to respond to a shifting landscape of funding and resources. Next50’s sponsorship of EWA25 will allow them to bring in impactful speakers, highlight the work of historically marginalized communities, and assemble thought leaders in the aging space.

Northeastern Junior College Foundation (Colorado, $30,000) will work in partnership with the Centennial Area Health Education Center to address the challenge of inadequate dementia care and training. These organizations will provide free dementia-focused Compassionate Care Training for nursing and criminal justice students; EMS, police, and fire staff; and residential care center staff and family caregivers. Access to this training will change aging for older adults living with a cognitive disability and change the systems who are in part responsible for their care.

Oakwood Creative Care (Arizona, $50,000) is a memory care service provider in the Phoenix area, and they are looking to expand their services to rural families living in Flagstaff, Arizona. A Changing Aging grant will allow them to increase the dementia-capable workforce in the area by teaching and incorporating the innovative and proven GUIDE and COPE methodologies. Bringing this work to Flagstaff will enable families and caregivers to have more affordable options for their loved ones, allowing older adults to age in place more affordably.

The Office of the Future of Work (Colorado, $132,385) is the arm of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment that leads efforts to prepare Coloradans for a changing economy shaped by demographics, technology, and globalization. Support from Next50 will allow OFW to launch a statewide initiative to analyze employment challenges facing older adults, with a specific focus on marginalized groups including Black, Hispanic, rural, low-income, veteran, and immigrant populations. This work will have a systems-level impact as it will be used to inform policy, program design, and funding decisions through gained insights, surveys, and data.

Para Ti Mujer (Colorado, $100,000) will partner with Silver Key to launch a unique volunteer and community engagement program for Latino older adults. This project will involve training thirty bilingual older adults in Colorado Springs to serve as community outreach navigators to increase the number of older Latinos receiving transportation, nutrition, and caregiving services by Silver Key. This work will support the economic wellbeing of the volunteers as well as the community to whom they provide outreach, through stipends and cost-reducing services, respectively.

Philanthropy Colorado (Colorado, $100,000) is a statewide network that connects and strengthens Colorado’s philanthropic community through collaboration and learning. This partnership with Next50 will deepen philanthropic engagement with aging and its intersection with other issues, such as health equity, economic mobility, housing, climate, and caregiving. This work seeks to change aging across Colorado by helping other funders understand the importance of incorporating aging into their funding decisions.

Pikes Peak Justice and Pro Bono Center (Colorado, $3,000) promotes equal access to justice through free legal clinics, free and reduced attorneys, and other community events. This Next50 sponsorship will support their annual Senior Law Day, where they provide free legal advice, free simple wills, legal classes, and other nonlegal aid information on other resources available to older adults.

Project Guardianship (New York, $150,000 over two years) is dedicated to advancing less-restrictive alternatives to guardianship for older adults and adults with disabilities, specifically working with immigrant, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized populations. This Changing Aging grant will enable them to create a new Power of Attorney program, which will allow older adults who lack other options the ability to appoint Project Guardianship as their power of attorney. This will impact the economic well-being of more vulnerable older adults, giving them more power over their financial and healthcare decisions and futures.

Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (Colorado, $150,000 over three years) works to foster equitable economics through business conversions, education, and support. Next50 funds will help them launch their first employee-owned home care business in Denver and two more cooperatives across Colorado. This will bolster the economic well-being of caregivers by placing the power into their own hands, which has been proven to increase wages, decrease staff turnover, and create economic opportunity for employee-owners, all while ensuring higher quality care for clients.

San Francisco Village (California, $50,000) is a successful village network in San Francisco, California. Next50 funding will be used to develop a replicable volunteer program with Southwest Community Center so they can provide essential services to older adults in the underserved, multiracial Lakeview/OMI District. This can then be used as a model for expanding their reach into other underserved neighborhoods in the area and across the state of California.

Senior Connection (Massachusetts, $185,000 over two years) will use Next50 funding to get a formal Rural health clinic designation for their mobile health clinic, the Care Express Bus. This will allow them to provide license medical care, behavioral health work, and prescription services to rural older adults who are often disconnected from traditional care systems. By bringing health services directly to the older adults who need them, The Senior Connection will ensure that older adults can age in place healthily, independently, and out of institutional settings.

SeriesFest (Colorado, $50,000) is a Denver-based nonprofit that strives to create impactful, inclusive opportunities in entertainment. Next50’s sponsorship of their annual festival will work to end ageism by creating a writing lab that ensures positive representation of older adults and through a panel that highlights multigenerational storylines.

Sesame 3G (Colorado, $50,000) will bring a proven, intergenerational mentoring model to Colorado in collaboration with Colorado State University. By connecting three generations (older adults, young adults, and children) through joyful, research-based activities that foster belonging, purpose, and well-being, the program directly addresses social isolation while challenging stereotypes about aging. This pilot partnership will support interactions that break down age-based biases and replace them with empathy, learning, and shared community.  

Solar Finance Fund, a project of Appalachian Voices (Virginia, $150,000) is dedicated to creating renewable, efficient, and resilient energy development in Central Appalachian communities. This Changing Aging project will develop a solar-powered energy resilience hub at a local Area Agency on Aging which will regularly power the building during regular hours and times of emergencies. There will also be deployable mobile solar generators that can be sent to homes of older adults during climate disasters, grid shutdowns, or when energy bills are financially burdensome. This innovative model will improve the economic well-being of rural older adults and service providers by reducing the cost of energy in a coal-impacted area.

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.

Treehouse Foundation (Massachusetts, $495,000 over two years) is a Massachusetts-based organization that operates an intergenerational neighborhood for older adults and families raising children in foster care. Funding from the Changing Aging grant will enable them to create a community-based participatory research project, allowing them to better understand and implement the needs of their older adult residents for current and under-construction neighborhoods. This research will also be disseminated to other aging organizations so they can learn innovative ways of tackling ageism, increasing social connection, and impacting economic well-being. Treehouse will use this grant to continue its dedication to helping older adults age in place among a meaningful, intentional community.

University of Massachusetts Boston (Massachusetts, $175,962 over two years) will use their Changing Aging grant to develop policy-building strategies to reduce barriers older adults face in participating in higher education. By accessing higher education, older adults have the potential to increase income (e.g., through credentialing) or accessing new opportunities in the workforce (e.g., career placement services).

University of Texas Health Science Center (Texas, $149,780 over two years) is working on a project to understand what makes older adults vulnerable to financial exploitation. This specific project will help them develop and test a new tool, the Senior Assistant for Financial Awareness, which will be used to help older adults avoid scams and other instances of financial exploitation.

University of Utah (Utah, $68,500) runs the Sorenson Impact Institute, which accelerates the integration of impact across sectors, thus expanding the market for impact investment. This sponsorship from Next50 will help build a roadmap for impact investing in aging that can be utilized by foundations and investors who are looking to maximize their impact in the aging field.

VeteransPlus (Florida, $50,000) is working to transform military and veteran support through partnerships with national nonprofit, government entities, and higher education institutions. This collaboration will result in the creation of an AI platform designed to simplify and personalize access to essential services for older veterans. This platform will reduce the cost of aging for our veterans by increasing the access to healthcare, disability compensation, housing support, and caregiver services, all while eliminating confusion and delays that can often accompany navigating government systems.

Village Capital (National, $150,000) will embark on a partnership with Deloitte Health Institute and Next50 to launch an accelerator focused on improving social and economic drivers of health for historically marginalized older adults. This project is seeking to impact the traditional pipeline of health-tech and social-impact innovation by putting an emphasis on founders with lived experience. 

Village Exchange Center (Colorado, $2,500) serves immigrants and refugees in the metro area of Denver. Next50 supported the screening of their award-winning short “My Father’s House” in addition to a community-led panel. Support for the Village Exchange Center contributed to the organization’s legal assistance and navigation for older adult immigrants and refugees.

Walsh Healthcare Center (Colorado, $40,000) provides stable, safe, and reliable care for older adults. This PRI will allow them to repair the water boiler in their nursing home, bringing them up to code in line with any upcoming inspections.  

Warm Cookies of the Revolution (Colorado, $50,000) works to improve the civic engagement of people across the metro Denver area. Next50’s partnership will support their Civic House Parties for older adults, a program relies on the feedback and interest from their communities and helps people host listening and talking sessions at their homes in order to be better engaged in local political and civic issues. This work will bring a new focus on economic well-being for the predominantly immigrant communities they are working with in Aurora.

Western Colorado Alliance (Colorado, $100,000 over two years) is a grassroots community organization that is dedicated to empowering residents in rural Western Colorado to advocate for solutions in their communities. Changing Aging funding will support community organizing efforts aimed at improving and expanding transportation in Western Garfield County, where the lack thereof is a significant barrier to employment and upward mobility. This grant will directly improve economic opportunities by connecting residents to healthcare, jobs, and other services.

WETA PBS (Washington D.C., $50,000) is a national PBS company that airs a variety of programming, including thoughtful shows aimed at young children. Next50 is sponsoring WETA’s Fred Rogers Pictures to include diverse stories of older adults and caretakers in three of their beloved programs: Daniel Tiger, Donkey Hodie, and Alma Rivera. Ageist beliefs can start as young as four years old. This sponsorship will help Next50 play a part in offering new perspectives on aging to children in some of their most impressionable years.

YEEHAW, a project of the Otero County Health Department (Colorado, $50,000)  utilizes older adult volunteers to support the area’s homeless population. Next50’s funding will help them create a responsive training program that will provide volunteers with the tools needed to successfully help their unhoused neighbors access needed resources, such as housing navigation, warming and cooling centers, and on the street engagement. This will help both volunteers and those they serve to age in place by creating a more connected community that is working to alleviate the struggles of homelessness.

COR grants invest in the economic resilience of Colorado nonprofits serving older adults in Colorado, working in our priority areas to make aging more affordable for marginalized older adults.

60+ Ride (Colorado, $144,000) provides tailored transportation solutions for older adults living in Weld County, particularly to those facing barriers due to mobility challenges or geographic isolation. This COR grant will support their new project, the Ten City Tour, which will work with senior centers, libraries, and city governments to create a lasting network of transportation opportunities tailored to each city’s unique needs. This will impact the economic well-being of rural older adults by providing access to basic needs services and transportation at no charge.

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.

All Points Transit (Colorado, $200,000 over two years) is a transportation network that ensures older adults and people with disabilities can get rides to reach essential services. This COR grant will allow them to change from a scheduled Dial-a-Ride program to one that includes a micro-transit program that supports group rides. This transition to a more reliable and affordable model will bolster the economic well-being of rural older adults by providing a less expensive transportation option.

Cañon City Golden Age Center (Colorado, $34,000) services older adults through a myriad of services, including nutrition, transportation, social, and wellness programs. The COR grant will upgrade their out-of-date information and technology infrastructure, which will modernize their transit operations and improve reliability. The organization will also develop a transit driver training platform, which will reduce their reliance on out-of-town training and expenses and allow them an opportunity to generate income by offering this training to other organizations.

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 well-being of older adults and those who care for them.

Center for People with Disabilities (Colorado, $80,000) is a Center for Independent Living, helping older adults and people with disabilities live independently and age in place. This COR grant will let the organization transition from paper recordkeeping to a comprehensive, digital database. This transition will help them reduce the cost of services, increase accuracy and efficiency of tracking and reporting, and strengthen programs designed to benefit older adults.

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.

Colorado Alliance for Caregiving Youth (Colorado, $50,000) is the first Colorado-based nonprofit dedicated to serving caregiving youth. Services help ensure the safety and health of intergenerational households and care systems across the state. COR funding will help this organization improve its data systems and receive a financial audit, which will help it pursue larger funding opportunities with the goal of delivering consistent programming and becoming a sustainable statewide partner for youth in caregiving roles.

Colorado Gerontological Society (Colorado, $299,600 over two years) helps older adults and their families navigate complex aging services that make aging in place more affordable for low-income and other marginalized populations. This COR grant will help CGS implement two new Customer Relations Management systems that will improve its management of client data and of community partners. This new system will make sure clients are connected to all benefits for which they are eligible, ensuring they don’t fall through any financial cracks.

Conectoras de Montbello, a project with Latino Community Foundation of Colorado (Colorado, $75,000 over two years), is a grassroots, Latino-led, and Latino-serving nonprofit that provides programs on health and wellness, legal resources, and digital education to older adults in Denver. This COR grant will support their transition to becoming an independent 501(c)(3) organization.  

Dementia-Friendly Communities of Northern Colorado (Colorado, $36,000 over two years) will use their COR funding to support the next step of their strategic planning by implementing the EOS training system. This will allow their leadership team to create a more cohesive and effective organization, ensuring they can continue to provide dementia-related services to families at no cost.  

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.

Grand County Rural Health Network (Colorado, $300,000 over two years) is a health alliance working to support the health of rural residents and Grand and Jackson Counties. This grant will allow them to improve their organizational resiliency by modernizing their infrastructure, be it through a new case management electronic medical record or a new system for reimbursements and billing. This will strengthen their capacity to serve older adults by improving tracking, evaluation, and compliance while also enabling cost recovery.

HomeCare & Hospice of the Valley (Colorado, $25,000) provides hospice and homecare services in the rural and frontier parts of Eagle, Garfield, and Pitkin counties. Colorado Organizational Resiliency funding will support an overhaul of their marketing strategy, including a website redesign and a refreshed communications strategy. The goal of this project is to increase visibility to reach more rural community members who are in need of services.

Hunger Free Colorado (Colorado, $113,700 over two years) will use Next50 funding to expand outreach and provide enhanced SNAP support to older adults. This Colorado Organizational Resiliency grant will allow them to update staff training material, enhance their online learning platform, and improve client outreach, all with the goal of ensuring food security for low-income older adults across the state.

Loving Beyond Understanding (Colorado, $50,000) is an LGBTQ+-focused organization serving Grand Junction. They will use a COR grant to standardize accounting systems, prepare for an audit, and provide professional development and training, all to create the needed structure for a fast-growing organization.

North 40 Mountain Alliance (Colorado, $50,000) serves unincorporated, underserved communities with no municipal services or formal social service infrastructure. COR funding will be used to work with a consulting firm to build out a strategic plan and diversified funding strategy. This opportunity will strengthen their food pantry’s long-term sustainability and directly support the economic health of older adults in their rural region.

North Fork Senior Connection (Colorado, $27,000) is a nonprofit in the rural North Fork Valley that provides programs and services to help older adults age in their community. This COR grant will help them navigate a recent merger with the Paonia Senior Center by providing them with funds to assume management of the senior center, develop a strategic plan, and plan a fundraising strategy. This work will help older adults in Paonia continue to age affordably.

Qualified Listeners (Colorado, $50,000) support veterans and their families by actively listening to their needs and connecting them to vital resources. Funding will help the organization develop a strategic plan focused on creating sustainability through a new fundraising framework and communications strategy. They will also rethink their volunteer program and prepare for when their founder chooses to step back from the organization.

The Senior Resource Development Agency (Colorado, $167,000 over two years) serves Pueblo and Pueblo County with twelve supportive services for older adults, including nutrition, transportation, a disability resource center, and more. They will use COR funding to launch a catering service with the goal of generating sustainable revenue to fund their programs for low-income, disabled, and rural older adults.  

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 communities. 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.

Senior Support Services (Colorado, $126,000 over two years) is Denver’s only day shelter that exclusively serves people over 60 who are experiencing housing instability, food insecurity, and other effects of poverty. This Colorado Organizational Resiliency grant will allow them to develop a new 5-year strategic plan to make informed, lasting improvements to data systems, communication strategies, funding streams, and client services. This organization’s work is dedicated to improving the economic well-being of Black, Latino, low-income, and homeless populations, and this new strategic plan will make their work even stronger.

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 who 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.

Sun Valley Kitchen + Community Center (Colorado, $50,000 over two years) offers no-cost groceries, free community meals, wellness services, and other programs that reflect and bolster the culture and needs of the older adults they serve. Colorado Organizational Resiliency funding will support their strategic planning and sustainability initiative focused on programmatic growth and the future of their service expansion.

ViVe Wellness (Colorado, $300,000 over two years) is an organization that provides culturally competent and bilingual services to Latino and immigrant communities in metro Denver. COR funding will allow them to hire and train bilingual navigators, lead workshops, and organize trips to help older adults access benefits. These services will help older adults who are facing increased discrimination and decreased financial support to age in place.

Sudden & Urgent Need funds enable small organizations from Colorado that serve older adults to receive funding that addresses unbudgeted urgent needs.

The Diverse Elders Coalition, (a project of SAGE) advocates for policies and programs that improve aging among communities that are diverse across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and background.

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 its facility, easing the burden of travel 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.

Housing Authority of the Town of Deer Trail, Colorado (Colorado, $21,000) is a small nonprofit that provides affordable housing to rural Coloradans. Sudden & Urgent Need funding will be used to repair the failure of one hot water heater and the impending failure of another, ensuring that their low-income residents have hot and clean water in the winter months.

Jackson County Council on Aging (Colorado, $3,000) serves older adults in rural, northwest Colorado. This Sudden & Urgent Need grant will support the purchase of new tires for the agency’s accessible vans. These vans are needed to transport older adults to medical appointments and recreational outings across long mountain passes, and the new tires will ensure that the vans are safe for use in the winter.

The Learning Council (Colorado, $8,610.71) is dedicated to serving marginalized communities in the North Fork region. Due to recent anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, their building has been the target of physical and verbal harassment. This Sudden & Urgent Need grant will allow them to upgrade their security systems to ensure the safety of staff and visitors to the building.

North Fork Senior Connections, Colorado ($5,500): This organization serves older adults in the North Fork Valley by addressing food insecurity, transportation shortages, and home modification needs. Recently, a neighboring organization, Paonia Senior Citizens, decided to close its doors, leaving older adults in the area without access to services or social connections. This Sudden & Urgent Need grant will allow North Fork Senior Connections to cover the cost of this unexpected but necessary merger, avoiding a gap in services for the local older adults.

Salida Senior Daycare (Colorado, $5,400) provides older adults in Salida with a place for respite, socialization, activities, meals, and transportation. This Sudden & Urgent Need grant will help them pay for new tires, a new windshield, and a full inspection for the van that they use to transport older adults to and from their facility.  

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.

In 2025, through this special GO Aging initiative, Next50 directed $2.5 million in general operating support to eight nonprofits serving the most marginalized older adults in Colorado and nationally.

The Diverse Elders Coalition, (a project of SAGE) advocates for policies and programs that improve aging among communities that are diverse across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and background.

Homeward Alliance is a Fort Collins-based organization that empowers individuals, families, and older adults who face homelessness to survive and move forward.

Justice and Mercy Legal Aid Center is an organization working in the Denver metro area to provide no-cost, compassionate legal services to low-income and underrepresented people

Mountain Resource Center serves low-income residents of rural Jefferson County through myriad services, such as a food pantry, pro bono therapy, and resource navigation.

NorthWest Colorado Center for Independence works with individuals in Northwest Colorado who are living with a disability to navigate systems, receive transportation services, and live independently.

Rocky Mountain Equality provides connection, advocacy, education, and other programs to benefit LGBTQ+ people and communities across Boulder County.

Savings Collaborative builds financial resilience and generational wealth for historically marginalized communities and older adults around Colorado.

Spring Institute serves the Denver area through its support of immigrant and multicultural communities through learning, language access, and advocacy.