Flexible Support Funding is designed to help Colorado organizations make progress toward their goal of improving the lives of older adults while also helping to increase or sustain an organization’s capacity to serve older adults.
Donor Name: NextFifty Initiative
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/22/2023
Size of the Grant: $150,000
Details:
Flexible Support embraces a trust-based approach with a simple application, lower barrier of entry, minimal reporting, and opportunities for relationship-building.
Flexible Support Grants are restricted to organizations or programs that currently serve older adults and are addressing healthy aging, access to care and support, ageism, racism, systemic inequities, and improving the lives of older adults. Instead of being asked to articulate a specific project plan and budget, Flexible Support Grant applicants will be asked about their organization’s and/or program’s goals, how the funding will support the achievement of those goals, and the organization’s need for these funds.
NextFifty Initiative is committed to social equity and expects grantees to demonstrate performance accountability that is free from discrimination on the basis of age, race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, religion, national origin, disability, military status, genetic information, or any other protected status. In addition, NextFifty Initiative seeks proposals that focus on the most underserved in the aging sector including but not limited to: communities of color, disabled, homeless, LGBTQ+, low-income, rural, immigrant/refugee, and vulnerable communities.
What will NextFifty Initiative consider funding?
Grant requests must intentionally focus on the aging or the aging-disabled population age 50 and over, or the caregivers of these populations.
NextFifty will consider requests for:
- Programs aiming to better the lives of older adults
- Funding existing programs/services
- Increasing an organization’s capacity to serve older adults
Requests are strengthened by:
- A focus on a historically marginalized community or communities
Funding Information
The maximum request is $150,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Colorado nonprofit entities organized under sections 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(6) of the IRS code that are in good standing in Colorado, excluding universities. Governmental entities are also eligible for funding.
What will not be funded?
- Support for new programs or project-based support
- Organizations outside of Colorado
- Universities
- LLCs or for-profit organizations
- Requests that involve payment or reimbursement of individual bills (i.e., medical bills, rent assistance, etc.)
- Lobbying, political campaigns, and requests with the goal of supporting a specific political position
- Fundraising and general event sponsorships
- Type III non-functionally integrated supporting organizations (as classified by IRS form 990, Schedule A, Part 1)
- Disease-specific laboratory research
For more information, visit Flexible Support 2023.
