The Retirement Research Foundation invites you to a Midwest Funders Forum on Economic Security and Older Adults. This forum is a partnership with your regional grantmakers association,Grantmakers in Aging, and national funding partners The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and Bank of America Charitable Foundation. Regional partners include: the Council of Michigan Foundations, Donors Forum of Illinois,
Gateway Center for Giving of Missouri, Indiana Grantmakers Alliance, the Iowa Council of Foundations, the Minnesota Council on Foundations,Ohio Grantmakers Forum, and the Wisconsin Donors Forum.
The deep and continuing recession has hit older adults hard; many low-income older adults are struggling to pay basic bills and make ends meet. Grantmakers with interests in poverty, family,housing and foreclosure, employment and workforce, health, and legal issues will want to address this situation because older adults are an integral part of families and a rapidly growing and increasingly important segment of communities. The Forum will provide opportunities for your foundation to expand its understanding of the issues, learn valuable economic security strategiesand tools you can share with your communities, and consider ways you may wish to invest in innovative economic security solutions.
Click here for a preliminary agenda.
Space is limited. Kindly RSVP no later than January 25, 2012 using the following webpage:
http://mwdonorsforum.eventbrite.com/
National Funding Partners
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation annually distributes $100 million to a wide range of charitable
organizations. The Foundation is dedicated to assisting the poor through operating and capital grants to direct service organizations primarily located in Maryland, Hawaii, Northeastern Pennsylvania, New York, Israel, and the Former Soviet Union. Grants are focused on meeting basic needs such as shelter, health and socialization, nutrition, and on enhancing an individual’s ability to meet those needs. Within that focus, emphasis is placed on older adults and on the Jewish community.
Bank of America is building on a long-standing tradition of investing in the communities it serves, by delivering on a 10-year goal to donate $2 billion to nonprofit organizations engaged in improving the health and vitality of their neighborhoods. Funded by Bank of America, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation gave more than $200 million in 2010, making the bank one of the largest corporate cash donors in the United States.
Collaborating Partners
• Council of Michigan Foundations
• Donors Forum of Illinois
• Gateway Center for Giving of Missouri
• Grantmakers in Aging
• Indiana Grantmakers Alliance
• Iowa Council of Foundations
• Minnesota Council on Foundations
• Ohio Grantmakers Forum
• Wisconsin Donors Forum
Hotel Accommodations for Traveling Attendees
Chicago Marriott O'Hare
8535 West Higgins Road
Chicago, Illinois 60631
Phone: 1-773-693-4444
Fax: 1-773-693-3164