Most of us are, or will one day be, providers and recipients of care. Paid and unpaid caregivers serve as the linchpins of the healthcare system.
Caregiving is a longstanding priority for GIA and many within our network. We provide numerous opportunities to collaborate and co-fund, as well as resources to help you explore the legislative, health, and funding landscape for caregiving in all its forms.
Family Caregiving Funders Community
The Family Caregiving Funders Community provides a forum for funders to work together to invest in programs, models of care, research, communication and awareness, training, education, and advocacy for caregivers of older people. Established in 2016 by GIA member The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Community now includes more than 40 funders, and two pooled funds.
Resources
Care Is Fundamental: How Funders Can Accelerate Vital Progress on Caregiving highlights funding trends and interest from other sectors including government, venture capital and philanthropy, technology, and entertainment.
National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers Action Guide for Philanthropy features actionable ideas for philanthropy to fuel efforts to recognize, assist, include, support, and engage family caregivers.
A Snapshot of the Care Narrative Change Landscape reflects the narrative-change strategy work happening at this moment in time based on extensive research.
Deploying narrative-change strategies across care issues – child care and early learning, long-term services and supports for older adults and people with disabilities, paid leave, support for family and friend caregivers, and improving the quality of paid care workers’ jobs – will help create the conditions for cultural and policy progress.
GIA Serves as Partner to Support "Caregiving," a PBS Documentary from Executive Producer Bradley Cooper
Grantmakers In Aging is excited to be a partner on Caregiving, a forthcoming documentary from Lea Pictures and executive producer Bradley Cooper. Funders include GIA members the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation and The John A. Hartford Foundation. Learn more.
Caregiver Nation Network
The Caregiver Nation Network is an initiative led by the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) with GIA as the fiscal agent. The network empowers caregivers to raise their voices with state and federal policymakers by investing in coalitions in 10 states (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin) and providing seed funding, collaborative learning, policy education, enhanced data and insights about caregiving, and a national advocacy summit.
The Caregiver Nation Network builds on an earlier phase of work generously supported by GIA members Archstone Foundation, Bader Philanthropies, Health Foundation for Western and Central New York, RRF Foundation for Aging, and St. David’s Foundation.
Current funders include Health Foundation for Western and Central New York and RRF Foundation for Aging. The consortium of funders investing in the Caregiver Nation Network emerged from GIA’s Family Caregiving Funders Community. The Network will also work as an evaluation partner with LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston. Learn more.