Friends Foundation for the Aging supports organizations providing innovative, sustainable, and equitable programs for healthy aging. Grounded in Quaker values, their mission aims to advance the well-being of older adults and their families, ensuring dignity, self-determination, respect, and access to housing, healthcare, and resources.
The Friends Foundation for the Aging (FFA) grant program emphasizes innovative, impactful, collaborative, and replicable programs addressing aging issues that reflect FFA values. Primarily backing Quaker organizations across the U.S., the program also extends support to nonprofits in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York focusing on unmet needs among aging adults in under-served populations. The guiding principles of the grant include service to diverse populations, potential to create change, resource leveraging, collaboration, engagement, integration of services, and the continual involvement of FFA.