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The Alliance for Aging Research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the pace of scientific discoveries and their application to vastly improve the universal human experience of aging and health. Learn more about the Alliance’s mission, vision, values, and history.

Yes, the Alliance for Aging Research is a fully tax-exempt charitable organization as defined under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS’s Internal Revenue Code. The Alliance’s IRS Determination Letter and its tax identification number is 54-1379174.

For more information, please visit: Financial Reports & Funding.

The Alliance receives funding from corporations, foundations, non-profit organizations, and individual donors. We are transparent about our partnerships, activities, and funding and received the 2022 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid (formerly GuideStar). We provide this in-depth information on our programs and how they are funded, while also safeguarding independence in our policy positions and health education work.

For more information, please visit: How We’re Funded.

There are a number of ways you can contribute directly to our work. Your support will help us advocate for increased funding and focus for aging research at federal health agencies; engage older adult patients and family caregivers to improve medical research and development; build influential coalitions to guide groundbreaking regulatory improvements for age-related diseases; and create award-winning, high-impact educational materials to improve the health and well-being of older adults and their family caregivers.

Learn more about how to support the Alliance as an individual donor or a corporate sponsor.

Yes, the Alliance has been rated a 4-star charity by Charity Navigator and received the 2022 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid (formerly GuideStar).

The Alliance works on a wide range of policy issues that support healthy aging and access to high-quality care. Throughout our history, we have supported additional funding for age-related diseases at the National Institutes of Health and have focused on ensuring the patient voice is heard and prioritized as the FDA evaluates therapeutics.

The Alliance also works to ensure policies support patients facing chronic disease, as well as their caregivers. In support of this goal, the Alliance has advocated for high-quality nursing home care, accurate measurements of care quality, paid family leave for caregivers, and access to therapeutics that benefit patients through improved outcomes and quality of life, expanded lifespan, and reduced recovery time. The Alliance also works throughout all relevant policy initiatives to examine health inequities and reduce barriers to equitable treatment for all.

Your voice is important! Patients can get involved in our work multiple ways, including by messaging their elected officials through our advocacy action center. The Alliance also connects with patients on policy initiatives in specific disease states.

Additionally, we encourage patients, caretakers, clinicians, and researchers to consider applying to participate in our Talk NERDY to Me training program, which provides training on patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and the clinical trials process in order to shape future research.

Out of every dollar the Alliance receives, 90 cents goes directly to the Alliance’s health programs, patient engagement, and advocacy work. We are committed to utilizing the valuable resources donors have given us in the most cost-effective ways possible. Our financial statements are thoroughly vetted annually by independent auditors to ensure that all contributions are maximized to benefit our mission. By keeping administrative costs low, more funding goes to our advocacy, aging and health, and other initiatives.

The Alliance is an independent patient advocacy organization focused on advancing continued research and policy reforms that support healthy aging. We strongly value our editorial independence; all decisions on policy positions and priorities are at the sole discretion of Alliance staff.

The Alliance believes that working with other organizations toward aligned policy goals helps to amplify and expand the impact of the patient voice. As a result, we often partner with allied organizations to achieve patient-centered reforms.

For all media inquiries, please contact [email protected].

Whether you’re looking for information on preventing disease, have been diagnosed with one of the diseases that many of us face as we age, or provide care for someone; having reliable information is critical. The Alliance creates resources that aim to empower all of us to take charge of our health to live longer, happier, more productive lives.

The Alliance has resources on healthy aging, prevention, and a number of diseases and conditions that disproportionately impact older adults like valve disease, sarcopenia, and vision loss.

Yes! The Alliance recognizes that older adult and family caregiver engagement in decision-making about healthcare leads to better patient outcomes and satisfaction. This is why the Alliance leads the Talk NERDY (Nurturing Engagement in Research and Development with You) to Me program that empowers older adults, their family caregivers, clinicians, and health researchers to learn about patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and how we can all work together to develop and implement research that answers the questions that matter most to patients. Learn about Talk NERDY to Me.

The Alliance is not a membership organization but produces and disseminates all of its resources, and advocates for patients, in partnership with hundreds of organizations and experts.

Working together with patients and family caregivers, advocacy organizations, federal agencies, hospitals and health care systems, clinicians, researchers, educators, and industry allows us to capture the full potential of our shared vision.

While the Alliance does not directly fund medical research, we help lead advocacy efforts for increased funding and focus on aging research at the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and other federal health agencies. These increases are vital to improving the health of older adults and help us discover cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

The Alliance does not accept content from for-profit organizations but will consider sharing resources from not-for-profit organizations. If you would like to submit content for the Alliance website, our podcast, or our blog, contact [email protected].

You can follow the Alliance and our activities by subscribing to our monthly newsletter Living Longer and Loving It, reading our blog, and listening to our This is Growing Old podcast.