Meet the 2018
Miami-Dade Age-Friendly Initiative
Mini-Grant Winners!
Miami-Dade Age-Friendly Initiative Awards Mini-Grants Totaling $12,500 to Jump-Start Age-Friendly Projects and Benefit Older Adults in Miami-Dade County
Miami, FL– The Miami-Dade Age-Friendly Initiative, a collaborative effort to make Miami-Dade a place where older adults can stay active, engaged, and healthy with dignity and enjoyment, awarded five local organizations an Age-Friendly Mini-Grants to help jump-start age-friendly projects across Miami-Dade County. The organizations, which were selected based on their ability to offer a opportunity to meet a community need identified through a survey conducted in 2017, each received a $2,500 award.
Results and experiences of funded projects will help promote age-friendly thinking and action among others. The mix of mini-grants demonstrates that municipal governments, nonprofits, universities, faith groups, and others can play important roles in making Miami-Dade age-friendly. The recipients are Baptist Health South Florida, Dade Heritage Trust, Florida International University, North Bay Village and Youth Co-Op.
The Miami-Dade Age-Friendly Initiative looks forward to providing technical assistance to the winning projects toward successful implementation. For more information about the Miami Dade Age-Friendly Initiative, please visit agefriendlymiami.org.
About the Miami-Dade Age-Friendly Initiative
The Miami-Dade Age-Friendly Initiative is a collaborative effort with a collective goal of creating a Miami-Dade where older adults can stay active, engaged, and healthy with dignity and enjoyment. Launched in 2012 through a grant from Grantmakers In Aging to Health Foundation of South Florida, the initiative expanded and is led by a diverse group of partners including AARP Florida, the Alliance for Aging, Health Foundation of South Florida, Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization, United Way of Miami-Dade, and Urban Health Partnerships along with an advisory committee of key stakeholders and community members. Miami-Dade County joined that AARP & WHO Network of Age-Friendly Communities in November 2016 becoming the 5th largest community in the United States to be part of the network.
About the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities
The AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities is an affiliate of the World Health Organization’s Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Program, an international effort launched in 2006 to help cities prepare for rapid population aging and the parallel trend of urbanization. AARP became the United States affiliate in 2012. Two states, 276 communities (and counting). -- representing more than 75 million people, have joined the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities.
About the WHO Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities
The WHO Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities began in 2006 and has grown to include cities and communities from 37 countries around the world, serving more than 130 million people. Other age-friendly communities have successfully researched, designated, and implemented intergenerational approaches to make life better for their residents, including enhancements like additional seating for older riders on public transit, housing for older residents located in close proximity to services and amenities, technology training sessions provided by younger residents for seniors, and training for family caregivers.
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