Deadline: 31-Aug-20
AARP Foundation is seeking proposals for the Direct Service projects and one for Education, Outreach or Field-Building projects that advance economic opportunity among low-income older adults.
For 57 years, AARP aided America’s poor and isolated seniors. As AARP’s charitable affiliate, they serve AARP members and nonmembers alike. The Foundation works for vulnerable people 50 and older by creating and advancing effective solutions that help them secure the essentials. They are tackling senior poverty by sparking bold, innovative solutions that help vulnerable older adults build economic opportunity and social connectedness — fostering resilience, strengthening communities and restoring hope.
AARP Foundation seeks projects that advance economic opportunity among low-income older adults.
Type of Projects
Project Type – Direct Service
- Direct Service – Ready to Pilot: Small-scale projects to test the feasibility of a project’s approach, methods, and procedures that are intended to be used in a larger-scale project.
- Direct Service – Ready for Outcomes: Program has been developed, pilot-tested and implemented among low-income older adult, and needs to be independently evaluated to demonstrate a higher level of evidence along the continuum.
- Direct Service – Ready to Scale: Program has been independently evaluated and has demonstrated moderate to strong evidence of effectiveness and needs to be expanded or scaled.
Project Type – Non-Direct Service
- Education: Projects that facilitate acquisition of knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, beliefs, and habits pertaining to low-income older adults (e.g. training, instructional material development).
- Outreach: Projects designed to increase awareness of and access to services and resources that help low-income older adults.
- Field-Building: Projects that do not directly serve low-income older adults but advance the work of one or a group of organizations serving low-income older adults to achieve measurable and sustainable results (i.e., infrastructure support, capacity building).
Funding Information
- Direct Service – Ready to Pilot: Maximum award of $150K per year, for up to 3 years
- Direct Service – Ready for Outcomes: Maximum award of $250K per year, for up to 3 years
- Direct Service – Ready to Scale: Maximum award of $250K per year, for up to 3 years
- Education: Maximum award of $150K per year, for up to 2 years
- Outreach: Maximum award of $150K per year, for up to 2 years
- Field-Building: Maximum award of $150K per year, for up to 2 years
Ineligible
The following are NOT eligible for funding:
- Grants for individuals;
- Debt retirement or operating deficits;
- Endowments or reserve funds;
- Political organizations or campaigns;
- Lobbying legislators or influencing elections;
- Sponsorship of fundraising events;
- Marketing endeavors and personal research;
- Organizations located outside the United States or its territories; or
- Indirect expenses unrelated to the project being funded.
For more information, visit https://www.aarp.org/aarp-foundation/grants/info-2019/advancing-effective-solutions.html