ASA - American Society on Aging

ASA's Civic Engagement Program

A program supported by

Links

RespectAbility

Respectability is a collaborative initiative designed to help community organizations and decision-makers find ways to empower the growing population of older Americans to use their abilities, their experience and their energy to help address community problems through volunteer work and employment.

http://www.respectability.org/

Civic Ventures

Civic Ventures is a national nonprofit organization that works to expand the contributions of older Americans to society, and to help transform the aging of American society into a source of individual and social renewal.

http://www.civicventures.org

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) was formed to engage Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service to meet community needs through the Corporation's three major programs: Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America. Senior Corps offers a network of programs that are found throughout the country that include RSVP, the Foster Grandparent Program and the Senior Companion Program. All three programs seek to tap the rich experience, skills and talents of older adults to meet community challenges. CNCS is interested in engaging older adults to assist schools who have Learn and Serve America grants through the Seniors and Youth Engaged in Service (SAYES) initiative. CNCS also has an excellent section of their website known as "The Resource Center" - http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/ - that is relevant to the civic engagement of older adults.

http://www.cns.gov/

Experience Corps

Experience Corps offers new adventures in service for Americans over 55. Now in 14 cities, Experience Corps works to solve serious social problems, beginning with literacy. More than 1,800 Corps members serve as tutors and mentors to children in urban public schools and after-school programs, where they help teach children to read and develop the confidence and skills to succeed in school and in life. Experience Corps is a signature program of Civic Ventures.

http://www.experiencecorps.org

National Academy on an Aging Society

As a non-partisan public policy institute, the Academy actively conducts research on issues related to population aging and provides information to the public, the press, policymakers, and the academic community.

http://www.agingsociety.org/agingsociety/

Harvard School of Public Health–MetLife Foundation Initiative on Retirement and Civic Engagement

The Center is planning a national campaign, in collaboration with leading media and entertainment companies, to change public attitudes toward aging and motivate boomers and retirees to engage in community service.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/reinventingaging/

NIA/AoA Directory

The Resource Directory for Older People is a comprehensive directory of organizations that support the aging community. A cooperative effort of NIA and the Administration on Aging (AoA), the directory is intended to serve a wide audience including health and legal professionals, social service providers, librarians, researchers, and older people and their families. The directory contains organization names, addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers, as well as e-mail and Web site addresses. The directory lists Federal agencies, AoA-supported resource centers, professional societies, private groups, and volunteer programs.

http://www.nia.nih.gov/HealthInformation/ResourceDirectory.htm

Coming of Age

Coming of Age is Greater Philadelphia's initiative to promote 50+ civic engagement, lifelong learning and community leadership. The initiative is in its pilot phase and is focused on the following mission: to transform a source (the knowledge, talent and skill of the region's 50+ population) into a force for enriching the community by helping individuals find meaning and the means to contribute to the greater good.

http://www.comingofage.org/

American Health Initiative

American Health Initiative is a New York based nonprofit, non-partisan organization devoted solely to initiating a national dialogue on reforming the healthcare system. AHI has initiated TAP-IN, a program to meet critical needs of Free Clinics through the volunteer engagement of retired health professional to care for the uninsured.

http://www.americanhealthinitiative.org/index.html

Americans for Libraries Council

Americans for Libraries Council (ALC) is a national nonprofit that advocates for libraries at the national level and develops and promotes programs aimed at realizing the potential of libraries in the 21st century. ALC's program, Lifelong Access, is designed to help mobilize the experience and skills of older adults for the benefit of the wider community through libraries.

http://www.lff.org/programs/lifelong.html

Boston College, The Center for Retirement Research

The goals of the Center for Retirement Research are to promote research on retirement issues, to transmit new findings to the policy community and the public, to help train new scholars, and to broaden access to valuable data sources.

http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/index.shtml

Bridgespan Group

The Bridgespan Group is a nonprofit organization that applies leading-edge management strategies, tools and talent to help other nonprofits and foundations achieve greater social impact. The Bridgespan Group provides assistance to selected grantees of The Atlantic Philanthropies by developing business plans for their success.

http://www.bridgespangroup.org/

Community Catalyst

Community Catalyst, Inc., located in Boston, Massachusetts, is a national nonprofit advocacy organization that builds consumer and community participation in the shaping of the U.S. health system to ensure quality, affordable health care for all. The Prescription Access Litigation (PAL) Project works to make prescription drug prices more affordable for older consumers, using class action litigation and public education.

http://www.communitycatalyst.org/index.php?doc_id=11

The Conference Board

The Conference Board creates and disseminates knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better serve society. As a global, independent membership organization in the public interest, The Conference Board is currently investigating to how society could increase older adults' inclusion in the workplace by assessing the benefits and costs of older adult workers.

http://www.conference-board.org/

Families USA Foundation

Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Families USA provides support for a six-state pilot project of the Families USA's Health Assistance Partnership designed to increase the capacity of the State Health Insurance and Assistance Program Network.

http://www.familiesusa.org/index.html

George Washington University, Center on Aging, Health & Humanities

The Center on Aging, Health & Humanities, founded in 1994, stimulates, coordinates, and conducts sponsored research on both the problems and potentials of aging, with the goal of improving the quality of life for older adults and their families. Located in the George Washington University Medical Center and part of the Institute for Health Policy Outcomes and Human Values, The Center on Aging focuses particularly on understanding and promotes creativity that accompanies aging, with the goal of improving the quality of life for older adults and their families.

http://www.gwumc.edu/cahh/

The Gerontological Society of America

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), founded in 1945, is the oldest and largest national multidisciplinary scientific organization developed to the advancement of gerontological research. The Society's principal missions are to promote research and education in aging, and to encourage the dissemination of research results to other scientists, decision makers, and practititoners.

http://www.geron.org/

Grantmakers in Aging

Grantmakers in Aging (GIA) is dedicated to promoting and strengthening grantmaking for an aging society and is the only international professional organization of grantmakers active in the field.

http://www.giaging.org/

Impact on Line (Volunteer Match)

VolunteerMatch is a leader in the nonprofit world dedicated to helping everyone find a place to volunteer. Impact on Line is a program designed to enhance the quality of volunteering opportunities and civic engagement for older adults by planning an improved volunteer matching system.

http://www.volunteermatch.org/

Independent Transportation Network

Independent Transportation Network is a nonprofit that is committed to developing a business plan for the national expansion of a sustainable transportation system for older adults in the US.

http://www.itnamerica.org/

Leadership Network

Leadership Network was created in 1984 to serve the Senior Pastors of large congregations. Halftime, and initiative of Leadership Network, seeks to increase older adults' civic engagement by developing, then disseminating, a recruitment method targeted to congregational leaders.

http://www.halftime.org/

National Alliance for Hispanic Health

The National Alliance for Hispanic Health (the Alliance) is the Nation's oldest and largest network of Hispanic health and human services providers. As the nation's action forum for Hispanic health and well-being, the Alliance has developed Prescription Benefit Outreach to support the effort to enroll more low-income elderly Hispanics for new federal prescription benefits.

http://www.hispanichealth.org/

The National Council on the Aging, Inc.

Founded in 1950, The National Council on the Aging is a national network of organizations and individuals dedicated to improving the health and independence of older persons and increasing their continuing contributions to communities, society and future generations.

http://www.ncoa.org/

The National Governors Association

The National Governors Association is a bipartisan organization of the nation's governors. NGA provides governors and their senior staff members with services that range from services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and before the Administration on key federal issues to developing policy reports on innovative state programs and hosing networking seminars for state government executive branch officials.

www.nga.org

Pension Rights Center

The Pension Rights Center works with grassroots activists around the country to stop unfair pension practices and advocate for adequate benefits.

www.pensionrights.org

Research Foundation of CUNY

The Research Foundation (RF) is a private, not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. Program areas include, but are not limited to, research in the natural and social sciences, training, curriculum planning, assessment, job placement, program evaluation, and software development.

www.rfcuny.org/home

Temple University,The Center for Intergenerational Learning

The Center for Intergenerational Learning, established in 1979, supports and promotes partnerships among organizations serving young people, families, and older adults, creates opportunities for youth and elders to contribute to their communities and helps organizations integrate intergenerational approaches into their program services. CIL programs include Coming of Age, Communities For All Ages, Experience Corps, Family Friends, Grandma's Kids, Project SHINE, Time Out.

http://templecil.org/

Twin Cities

Twin Cities Public Television's mission is to harness the power of television and other media for the public good. TPT is developing outreach activities and producing a public television series to change how the society perceives older adults.

http://tpt.org

University of Maryland Center on Aging

University of Maryland Center on Aging, founded in 1974, is an all-university, interdisciplinary institution designed to foster basic, applied and policy research, education and public service in the area of health promotion, disease prevention and human aging. Philosophically, the Center is dedicated to healthy and productive aging.

http://www.hhp.umd.edu/aging/

University of Minnesota, Vital Aging Network

Vital Aging Network website, sponsored by the University of Minnesota College of Continuing Education, provides resources for "vital agers" (loosely defined as anyone age 55 or better). In addition to providing resources that link people to opportunities for meaningful and productive activities, the website also supports a forum where individuals and organizations can work collaboratively to promote self-sufficiency, community participation and quality of life for older adults.

http://www.van.umn.edu

Urban Institute, The

The Urban Institute, created in 1968 by President Johnson, is an independent, nonpartisan research center designed to analyze problems facing America's cities and their residents. Their current research on Civic Engagement at Older Ages examines how many older adults are engaged in productive activities, what these activities are, and how engagement varies by personal characteristics and across time.

http://www.urban.org

Washington University, George Warren Brown School of Social Work

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work is made up of a community of scholars of social welfare and social work dedicated to the pursuit, advancement, and transmission of the most up-to-date knowledge of a broad range of social policies and interventions in the United States and the world. Their research on Experience Corps will assess the benefits of the multi-state Experience Corps program by investigating the outcomes for young students and older adults participating in the program.
http://gwbweb.wusl.edu