Alliance Educational Fund Programs

The Fund will support State Alliance for Retired Americans’ chapters in the 18 states with state assigned staff, leadership training, and coalition building instruction, working with seniors in those states to build an organization from the ground up to educate policy makers on all levels. The Fund’s plan is to build 12 more state Alliance chapters in the next two years.

Education
The Fund will conduct seminars and conferences for retired workers and pre-retirees on a variety of issues, with a focus on health care and retirement security. Specific materials will be developed for use in its educational efforts, including reports and issue briefs, pamphlets, brochures, video presentations, and electronic information. The Fund will provide publications to educate older and retired Americans on issues of concern, and compile rosters of qualified experts and professionals with respect to these issues so that retiree groups will have a variety of sources to turn to in order to educate themselves.

Read our latest reports and issue briefs

Research
Research focuses on health care and retirement security; specific topics may include, but are not limited, to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Older Americans Act, as well as other entitlement programs. We study and evaluate current legislative and regulatory initiatives in the United States on these issues, as well as practices drawn from other countries and recommendations from experts and scholars in the field. The organization will create issue papers and other evaluative documents and will distribute them to the public.

Learn about the Bertrand Seidman Fellowship for Advancing Social Policy

Conduct Coalition Work/Activities
The Fund will foster cooperative work and coalition building among not-for-profit organizations, community groups, worker and retiree organizations, and unions that share common goals with respect to issues that affect retirees. The focus will be on information exchange, shaping debate, and building support among members of the public, lawmakers, and institutions and individuals who are influential in shaping policy on these issues at the national, state and local levels.