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Community Engagement and Aging Justice: Perfect Together

In our last episodes of the Washtenaw Chronicles, we described our partnership with the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (AAACF) to capture older adults' aging experience and how well systems are working. The goal: guide its place-based strategy for driving systems change and achieving aging justice for the older adults living across Washtenaw County, MI.

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Community Engagement and the Expertise of Lived Experience

My latest experience partnering with older adults spurred an aha moment around the work of ‘community engagement.’

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Insights into Small Business as a Path to Economic Security for Parents Who are Returned Citizens

Anand Dholakia shares perspectives gained from a purpose- and equity-driven evaluation of the Aspire Entrepreneurship Initiative, conducted in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Justine Petersen.

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How Do You Shape Your Work To Improve Lives And Reduce Disparities? Field Notes from Guilford County, Part IV

In Part IV of a series on our Continuous Quality Improvement work in Guilford County, Anand Dholakia describes how we defined "quality" around what really matters for families.

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How do you promote healthy and fulfilling aging during a pandemic?

This report from Anand Dholakia describes how we are adapting efforts to engage older adults and map aging-related systems in order to help the The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation focus its resources on what matters most to people in its community.