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� InnovAGING NJ 2024�

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Catalyzing Age-Friendly

Community Change

Through Creative Grantmaking

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March 22, 2024

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Renie Carniol, Grotta Fund for Older Adults

Julia Stoumbos, Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation

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Grantmaking – A New Way

  • Traditional
  • Individual goals/priorities
  • Specific grant cycle (usually 1 yr)
  • Timeframe usually 1-3 years
  • Learning by program
  • Individual grows leadership skills
  • Single organization capacity-building

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  • Collaborative
  • Shared vision
  • Planning grant; multi-year and flexible
  • Extended timeframe 4 -7+ yrs
  • Learning collaborative, public campaign
  • Community of Practice
  • Ecosystem impact

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Ambitious Goals of the Age Friendly NJ Alliance

  • Assess community
  • Engage older residents
  • Reframe Aging through language
  • Bring innovative programming
  • Activate multi-sectoral collaborations
  • Improve municipal master plans
  • Improve physical spaces
  • Develop Age-Friendly Leaders
  • Build capacity to secure funding
  • Identify areas for future investment
  • And more!

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Timeline

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    • Implementation continues with leadership development and mentoring

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      • Learning and celebrating continues – retaining and onboarding new groups

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        • Adding new communities

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          • Policy advancement

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            • Long term sustainability

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Timeline: 2022 to Today

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Examples of Community Accomplishments over Time

  • Enhancing existing older adult programming
  • Hiring new municipal staff, establishing committees on aging
  • Embedding age-friendly practices into municipal master plans
  • Changes to the Built Community
  • Building powerful collaborations & trust
  • Raising consciousness about aging
  • Integrating age-friendly actions into partner organizations and community
  • Creating ambassadors’ groups
  • Increasing access to information and resources
  • Enhancing community pride
  • Creating age-friendly leaders- mentorship, advocacy power, influence beyond the local

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Other AF State and Local Efforts- Age-Friendly and Multi-

Sector Planning on Aging

Age-Friendly

Community and Core Partners

Residents at Large

Senior Citizens Advisory Committee

Local Government Employees and Services (Recreation, Public Health, Law Enforcement)

Health and Social Service organizations

(including hospitals and senior housing)

Chamber of �Commerce (connections to for- profit sector)

Healthy Communities Coalition; NJ Future, Sustainable Jersey

Advocacy, Civic and Volunteer Groups

ALLIANCE: Other Age-Friendly Teams and Their Networks

Public Sector

Private Non-Profit Sector

Elected and Appointed Officials, Local, County and State

Age-Friendly Superstructures

International (WHO)

National (AARP, USAging)

Regional (AARP-NJ, AFNJ)

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Age-Friendly Community Development Outcomes Impact Beyond the Dollars

Personal Reflections

    • Outstanding leadership development
    • Gaining recognition: State, National, and International
    • Advancing positive images of aging and older adults
    • Expanding knowledge/disseminating for innovation; with Rutgers University School of Social Work
    • Funding collaborative: 1 + 1 is greater than 2, Age-Friendly movement advanced
    • Other

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