For Immediate Release
Denver, CO — The Colorado Alliance for Caregiving Youth (CACY) has received a $50,000 grant from Next50. This Colorado-based national foundation supports efforts to improve the lives of older adults and their caregivers. The funding will support CACY’s NEXT50 Campaign, a capacity-building initiative designed to strengthen communications, community engagement, and systems-level awareness of caregiving youth—young people who provide unpaid care for family members.
This investment will allow CACY to pilot a targeted awareness and engagement campaign in Denver’s Montbello community during National Family Caregivers Month, while developing tools and strategies that can be replicated statewide. The initiative will amplify youth voices, equip schools and community partners, and advance recognition of caregiving youth within the broader family caregiving ecosystem.
“We know that when caregiving youth are recognized and supported, outcomes improve not only for young people, but for entire families,” said Nadine Roberts Cornish, Founder and Executive Director of the Colorado Alliance for Caregiving Youth. “This funding from Next50 strengthens our ability to elevate youth voices, build practical tools for schools and communities, and advance lasting systems change that supports caregiving families across Colorado.”
Through the NEXT50 Campaign, CACY will launch a localized awareness effort, develop a communications toolkit, and engage schools and community partners in adopting caregiving youth resolutions—helping normalize identification and support of youth caregivers across education and community systems.
“It’s expensive to age in this country,” said Peter Kaldes, President & CEO of Next50. “That’s why we seek partners like the Colorado Alliance for Caregiving Youth who are working to change the status quo and help create a world that values aging.”
Media Contact:
Lori Goodwine
PR & Communications Consultant
Colorado Alliance for Caregiving Youth
[email protected] | 720-856-0475
About Next50
Next50 is a Colorado-based national foundation that works toward a society that values aging and makes growing older an empowering, fulfilling experience. Today, systems in the U.S. often fail to prioritize economic well-being as people age, leading to widespread hardship for older adults and their families. Next50 funds innovative and equitable programs that create economic opportunity for older adults—especially in low-income communities and communities of color—across three focus areas: ending age-related bias and discrimination, advancing digital equity, and making it possible for people to age where they want to live.
Learn more at www.next50foundation.org
