Report: Nonprofits Serving Rapidly Expanding Aging Populations Financially Wanting—And That’s a Big Problem

By Ruth McCambridge
Editor in chief of the Nonprofit Quarterly

Last week, White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney defended the Trump administration’s proposed deep cuts to social welfare programs. “Meals on Wheels sounds great,” Mulvaney said during a White House news briefing, before adding, “We’re not going to spend [money] on programs that cannot show that they actually deliver the promises that we’ve made to people.” (So, making sure that older people can eat as more of them age in place is not a fulfillment of a promise?)

That, and the revelation that the House version of a proposal that would rewrite the Affordable Care Act has been fashioned to place the aging (from 50 on) and the poor at most risk, has riveted the public’s attention to the targeting of a growing aged and aging population, which is being unfortunately layered atop nonprofits already struggling with systemic weaknesses.

This special report from Giving USA, “Giving and the Golden Years,” is not so much about giving as it is about the financial stability—or, rather, the lack thereof—of aging services nonprofits. This report becomes extraordinarily important in light of several factors:


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