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Resources For Where You Are and Where You’re Going
This page brings together the many tools, templates, and resources featured throughout our Creative Aging Messaging Guidebook, “Expanding the Circle: Practical Strategies to Build Support for Creative Aging.” Download the complete guidebook and resource appendix, or download the resources separately below. We’re always adding new materials, so check back often!
Creative Aging Messaging Strategy Worksheet: Decision-Maker Engagement Planning
This worksheet aims to help you identify key decision-makers in state agencies/government and strategically tailor your approach to align with those individuals’ values, responsibilities, and priorities.
A PDF version of this resource can be found in our Resource Appendix PDF.
FINDING FUNDING FOR CREATIVE AGING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR ORGANIZATIONS
This guide was created to help community organizations—libraries, arts organizations, museums, older adult housing providers, and health and aging service providers—secure the resources needed to launch and sustain creative aging programs.
planning your creative aging campaign: a practical guide for social media messaging
Making the case to decision-makers is one thing; connecting with people online is another. This flexible, friendly checklist will help you shape and share your creative aging story across digital platforms.
template letters + emails to introduce creative aging
These templates and emails are designed to guide your messaging, not script it. Whether you’re reaching out to state leaders or pitching a pilot program to a community foundation, use this language as a starting point and adapt it to fit your voice.
A PDF version of this resource can be found in our Resource Appendix PDF.
center for health care strategies multisector plan for aging toolkit
This guide is designed to support states and their partners as they develop, implement, and periodically refresh an MPA. The toolkit offers practical guidance, concrete strategies, and real-world examples drawn from states that are actively engaged in this work. While the toolkit modules are presented as a sequence, states can use them individually based on where they are in the MPA process.
national association of state art agencies vital + vibrant creative aging toolkit
This toolkit quips state and jurisdictional arts agencies with everything they need to champion and implement creative aging in their communities. These resources support state arts agencies in making the case, building the partnerships and launching the programs that help older adults thrive.
*Note: This guidebook uses language referring to creative aging exclusively as a specific, sequential program model. Lifetime Arts uses a broader definition of creative aging that encompasses the full spectrum of ways a person or community might integrate arts and aging, and does not recommend referring to one particular program model as the only approach as it can exclude other evidence-informed approaches.
united way of Central iowa advocacy toolkit
This resource is ideal for anyone who is getting started as an advocate for any cause. It goes into more detail on advocacy tips than we are able to include in this guide.
