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- EIN 46-0968566
- (719) 602-3815
- 1625 S Murray Blvd Colorado Spgs CO 80916-4502 USA
- innovationsinaging.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Human Services, Senior Centers, Seniors
Mission: Convene the community to promote creative approaches that address the challenges and opportunities of aging.
Programs: Age friendly - create a strategic plan on aging for the community. Under this initiative, the organization celebrated many accomplishments:-iiac worked diligently with colorado springs city council to create the colorado springs commission on aging, which became official in spring of 2017. The city now has an imbedded advocacy body that can make recommendations on behalf of the aging population to city council and the mayor. -iiac, in conjunction with the ymca and aarp, conducted a walk audit to determine the walkability, bikeablility and access to important community hubs in the area. Iiac has worked with our formal partners to implement many of the recommendations outlined in that plan. -iiac worked with numerous community partners to achieve many of the goals in the age friendly plan, such as the creation of a heat map of density of seniors with different important community overlays, encouraged the further development of senior center programming at ymca locations, worked with city of colorado springs parks, recreation and cultural services department to ensure the continuing age friendly improvements to the most at-need parks, and performed advocacy and outreach to increase walkability and bikeablility for all ages and areas, specifically in the areas with a high concentration of older adults.