Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation

Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation - Root Cause

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August 2022 Newsletter

Who is the community? Why are you engaging with them? Who does community engagement serve? How will you ensure you are reaching folks who are typically excluded? Are you prepared to act on recommendations that come from the community?

publications

Report:

AAACF Washtenaw County Healthy & Fulfilling Aging Systems Research Report

The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation and Root Cause worked together to develop a first-of-its-kind report to understand Washtenaw County, Michigan's healthy aging support system and what could be improved.

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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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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.