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Home Equity For over a decade, NCOA has helped older adults learn how they can tap their home equity wisely to stay healthy and independent longer.
A \| F Y PUBLIC POLICY NCOA is a national voice for older adults and the organizations that serve them.
Our goal is to protect and strengthen major public programs, particularly for older adults who are struggling.
The advocacy effort was led by the Disability and Aging Collaborative—a coalition NCOA formed and co-chairs.
The law also provided $Older Americans Act (OAA) programs and resources, including a new $44 million investment in healthy aging.
Led advocacy efforts that successfully increased annual funding for Medicare low-income outreach and enrollment efforts from $the next three years.
This included a $three years for NCOA’s Center for Benefits Access.
• Successfully mobilized national, state, and local partners to counter administration proposals to eliminate or cut multiple investments in aging services, including SCSEP, falls prevention, CDSME, Medicare State Health Insurance Assistance Programs, and the Social Services Block Grant.
SENIOR CENTERS NCOA’s National Institute of Senior Centers (NISC) strengthens senior centers by promoting best practices related to programs and service delivery, peer networking, advocacy, research, and the nation’s only national standards and accreditation program.
Celebrated and sponsored the annual National Senior Center Month in September with the theme Senior Centers: Delivering Vital Connections, reflecting their critical role in meeting community needs during the pandemic.
• Celebrated Accreditation process, a self-guided and peer reviewed process that ensures a senior center meets the highest standards of practice, and established an online portal for engagement, simplifying the process and creating data and best practice collection capacity.
• Selected which identify, celebrate, and promote outstanding senior center programming.
• Convened a NISC Leadership Collaborative, mobilizing the network with representatives from across the nation.
• Co-created a toolkit for senior centers to incorporate ridesharing into community transportation strategies through an initiative with Lyft and senior center partners, informed by a multi-site pilot.
AGING MASTERY® NCOA created Aging Mastery® to help older adults build their own playbook for aging well.
Aging Mastery comes in two formats: Aging Mastery Program® (AMP) classes and a self-directed Aging Mastery Starter Kit.
Both versions provide a comprehensive and fun approach to positive aging by focusing on key aspects of health, finances, relationships, personal growth, and community involvement.
Central to the Aging Mastery philosophy is the belief that modest lifestyle changes can produce big results.
Mastery comes from turning these lifestyle changes into habits that lead to improved health, stronger economic security, enhanced well-being, and increased societal participation.
• Expanded Aging Mastery by 107 sites in three additional states.
Fiscal Year 2021 was a larger investment year financially for NCOA.
The net operating change in Unrestricted Net Assets (before Pension Plan related adjustments) was a loss of $which is $1,130,259 greater than the prior year’s loss of $179,942.
The bulk of the net investment was $Planner, including Medicare education.
NCOA created Age Well Planner to provide a trusted resource for adults to plan their retirement journey and ensure they can meet their goals for healthy aging.
While NCOA’s federal programs were relatively safe from pandemic-related financial impacts, we did experience significant impacts in our ability to solicit non-federal funding in FY21.
Funders prioritized direct COVID-related activities over other considerations, and the pandemic impacted individual giving campaigns.
As per accounting rules, NCOA is required to make annual, non-operating adjustments related to the recognition of the NCOA Pension Plan liabilities.
For FYpositive $687,759 compared to the negative $851,040 in FY20, due mostly to the substantial market value growth of the funded investment balances.
discount rates and actuarially based mortality tables used to measure the unfunded liabilities.
With these results, the total Unrestricted Net Assets decreased by a net $($417,645) at the end of FY20 to ($1,040,087) at the end of FY21.
In FY21, federal grants accounted for 85% of total revenues.
mission, expending 93% of its operating resources on direct programs.
In addition to the Unrestricted Net Asset changes (how NCOA manages our current year funding), we also have some multi-year Restricted Awards that carry over across fiscal years.
new restricted awards received and the values of those used in the current fiscal year.
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL CONTENTS At Conservation International, we are proud to have some of the leading minds in natural and social science, policy, finance and business working together to improve people’s lives through the care and protection of nature.
Their insights are helping societies develop and thrive in a more sustainable, equitable way.
Robert J. Fisher Chairman of the Board Gap Inc.
Over the last two years, a clear consensus has emerged: Securing the health of Earth’s climate, ecosystems and biodiversity is essential to the survival of all people.
The world now recognizes that environmental collapse will not only disproportionately affect marginalized people, but touch all communities, all businesses, all consumers, all governments, all voters.
And every week brings a new reason for urgency: droughts and floods; fires and superstorms; heatwaves and cold snaps.
weather is becoming more extreme — and as cracks emerge in the world’s great ice shelves, we are entering uncharted territory.
In a moment so grave, our work is no longer fringe — but our optimism does feel radical.
around us, and we have a larger coalition of the willing than ever before.
The future of our movement must be inclusive.
For too long, the history of conservation was defined by colonialism and callousness.
Many of the world’s most iconic parks and preserves sit atop sacred Indigenous sites, denigrating rich cultures and undercutting the extraordinary contributions these communities have to offer.
Conservation organizations must transform themselves and allow themselves to be transformed.
I have been a part of Conservation International since its inception in 1987.
But we have not always been attentive to unintended consequences.
way, with the right partners, guided by compassion, respect, and a commitment to listening and learning.
all those who share the belief that Earth must thrive for humanity to thrive.
Dear friends, For decades, Conservation International was swimming against the current.
As various crises came and went, our cause was often relegated to the margins.
and conservation an elitist exercise — the dominion of wayfarers, royals and sportsmen.
We know the coming decade will be a marked departure from the past.
Beyond the obvious effects of COVID-trends in nationalism, technology and climate will render many current operating models obsolete.
We had a remarkable year at Conservation International — one that would have felt impossible even a few years ago.
In virtually every facet of our work — partnerships and philanthropy, field and finance, science and sustainable livelihoods — we exceeded the benchmarks we set.
In the few areas impacted by the pandemic, we are already catching up.
In the following pages, you will find an overview of this year’s accomplishments, including major advances in climate finance, translational science and planet-positive economies.
Underpinning all this progress is a renewed focus on how we do our work.
I want to highlight two qualities that will define our future.
power of empathy — and learned how to better care for one another in a fragile, fragmented world.
In this spirit, we are investing heavily in our organizational culture, to ensure that cohesion and compassion are an immutable part of our day-to-day work — and moral anchors that ground us through periods of change.
In practice, this has meant training our entire staff in compassion-based ethics, deepening our partnerships with Indigenous peoples and local communities, and strengthening our practices so that we continue to be an equitable place to work.
Uncertainty has become a permanent part of modern living, and business-as-usual will not be sufficient to confront the historic challenges before us.
With help from our partners at IDEO, we have embraced the tenets of design thinking, a human-centric approach to management.
For more than three decades, Conservation International has continuously evolved to meet big challenges and operate in unfamiliar worlds.
I am confident that with our dynamic team and the support of our amazing community, we, like the salmon, will not just survive but succeed in this turbulent new world.
They spend their formative years in clear freshwater streams, and then, in the span of a few months, transform for a new life in the ocean.
Their morphology, physiology and behavior all change — and the darting speckled fish becomes a silver torpedo able to master a new saltwater realm.
Nature is full of organisms that can evolve, and adapt, to thrive in turbulent times.
The marine boundaries referenced in this map are sourced from Marine Regions and the land international boundaries are sourced from Natural Earth; both are in the public domain.
organizations and contributors on this map do not imply endorsement or acceptance by Conservation International of those boundaries or country names.
With offices in more than 100 countries, Conservation International’s reach has never been broader, but our mission remains the same: to protect nature for the benefit of us all.
At the UN climate talks in Glasgow, delegates put nature front and center to confront the climate crisis.
CEO M. Sanjayan joined financial leaders in announcing a pledge to end deforestation by 2025.
CENTER STAGE “Years from now, the point — the point at which the Paris Agreement’s aspirations finally began to turn into action,” according to Shyla Raghav, vice president of climate change at Conservation International.
For perhaps the first time, nature took center stage at the climate talks, thanks to years of strenuous effort — by Conservation International and others — to raise the profile and importance of nature as an essential solution to the global climate crisis.
The commitments and attention on nature, including a declaration by nearly 150 countries to end forest loss by 2030; a pledge by more than 30 financial institutions to eliminate deforestation from their portfolios by 2025; and $1.7 billion in pledges from governments and foundations to support the efforts of Indigenous peoples and local communities in protecting tropical forests.
We helped forge a breakthrough at international climate negotiations, which for the first time recognized the central role of nature as a climate solution — a position that we worked tirelessly for years to advance.
Our researchers helped to pinpoint the places in nature that humanity must protect.
And we worked with corporate partners to funnel millions of dollars toward protecting and restoring forests, perhaps humanity’s greatest ally in the climate fight.
But perhaps most significantly, the talks saw consensus on a matter that had long eluded agreement: global rules for carbon trading among countries to achieve their climate commitments.
partners on securing a deal for these rules (known as Article to natural climate solutions and help speed climate action.
As a next step, Conservation International and partners developed a roadmap to guide financial institutions in meeting their pledge to address deforestation risk in their portfolios and will be working to gain additional commitments from across the finance sector.
digital billboards, like this one in Switzerland, brought the sounds of nature to cities around the world.
It wasn’t the only way we ensured that nature’s voice was heard.
While You Can” campaign, which brought the sounds of nature to the streets of Glasgow — and beyond.
on the Philippines’ highest peak to the haunting calls of Madagascar’s lemurs.
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL “As the climate crisis unfolds, those least responsible — the Global South, Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities — are the ones suffering the most.
I’m proud to work with Conservation International to mend humanity’s relationship with Earth — and do so in a way that gives voice to frontline communities.
The majority of Earth’s irrecoverable carbon is concentrated in a relatively small land area.
The good news: Nearly quarter of the world’s irrecoverable carbon is already located within protected areas.
A new way to protect coastal forests — and the massive amounts of climate-warming carbon they store — took root in Colombia, thanks to a project developed by Conservation International and partners.
Cispatá forest can now be valued for its climate benefits and included in carbon markets.
contributing to sustainable livelihoods and compensating landowners for protecting their mangroves.
initial funding needed to develop a sustainable ecotourism program and other economic activities for those who rely most on the mangrove forests.
To stop climate breakdown, we must emit less planet-warming greenhouse gases.
if the world stopped using fossil fuels tomorrow, we would fail to avert a worst-case climate scenario if we did not also reverse the destruction of ecosystems that absorb and store carbon.

Home Equity For over a decade, NCOA has helped older adults learn how they can tap their home equity wisely to stay healthy and independent longer.

A | F Y PUBLIC POLICY NCOA is a national voice for older adults and the organizations that serve them.

Our goal is to protect and strengthen major public programs, particularly for older adults who are struggling.

The advocacy effort was led by the Disability and Aging Collaborative—a coalition NCOA formed and co-chairs.

The law also provided $Older Americans Act (OAA) programs and resources, including a new $44 million investment in healthy aging.

Led advocacy efforts that successfully increased annual funding for Medicare low-income outreach and enrollment efforts from $the next three years.

This included a $three years for NCOA’s Center for Benefits Access.

• Successfully mobilized national, state, and local partners to counter administration proposals to eliminate or cut multiple investments in aging services, including SCSEP, falls prevention, CDSME, Medicare State Health Insurance Assistance Programs, and the Social Services Block Grant.

SENIOR CENTERS NCOA’s National Institute of Senior Centers (NISC) strengthens senior centers by promoting best practices related to programs and service delivery, peer networking, advocacy, research, and the nation’s only national standards and accreditation program.

Celebrated and sponsored the annual National Senior Center Month in September with the theme Senior Centers: Delivering Vital Connections, reflecting their critical role in meeting community needs during the pandemic.

• Celebrated Accreditation process, a self-guided and peer reviewed process that ensures a senior center meets the highest standards of practice, and established an online portal for engagement, simplifying the process and creating data and best practice collection capacity.

• Selected which identify, celebrate, and promote outstanding senior center programming.

• Convened a NISC Leadership Collaborative, mobilizing the network with representatives from across the nation.

• Co-created a toolkit for senior centers to incorporate ridesharing into community transportation strategies through an initiative with Lyft and senior center partners, informed by a multi-site pilot.

AGING MASTERY® NCOA created Aging Mastery® to help older adults build their own playbook for aging well.

Aging Mastery comes in two formats: Aging Mastery Program® (AMP) classes and a self-directed Aging Mastery Starter Kit.

Both versions provide a comprehensive and fun approach to positive aging by focusing on key aspects of health, finances, relationships, personal growth, and community involvement.

Central to the Aging Mastery philosophy is the belief that modest lifestyle changes can produce big results.

Mastery comes from turning these lifestyle changes into habits that lead to improved health, stronger economic security, enhanced well-being, and increased societal participation.

• Expanded Aging Mastery by 107 sites in three additional states.

Fiscal Year 2021 was a larger investment year financially for NCOA.

The net operating change in Unrestricted Net Assets (before Pension Plan related adjustments) was a loss of $which is $1,130,259 greater than the prior year’s loss of $179,942.

The bulk of the net investment was $Planner, including Medicare education.

NCOA created Age Well Planner to provide a trusted resource for adults to plan their retirement journey and ensure they can meet their goals for healthy aging.

While NCOA’s federal programs were relatively safe from pandemic-related financial impacts, we did experience significant impacts in our ability to solicit non-federal funding in FY21.

Funders prioritized direct COVID-related activities over other considerations, and the pandemic impacted individual giving campaigns.

As per accounting rules, NCOA is required to make annual, non-operating adjustments related to the recognition of the NCOA Pension Plan liabilities.

For FYpositive $687,759 compared to the negative $851,040 in FY20, due mostly to the substantial market value growth of the funded investment balances.

discount rates and actuarially based mortality tables used to measure the unfunded liabilities.

With these results, the total Unrestricted Net Assets decreased by a net $($417,645) at the end of FY20 to ($1,040,087) at the end of FY21.

In FY21, federal grants accounted for 85% of total revenues.

mission, expending 93% of its operating resources on direct programs.

In addition to the Unrestricted Net Asset changes (how NCOA manages our current year funding), we also have some multi-year Restricted Awards that carry over across fiscal years.

new restricted awards received and the values of those used in the current fiscal year.

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL CONTENTS At Conservation International, we are proud to have some of the leading minds in natural and social science, policy, finance and business working together to improve people’s lives through the care and protection of nature.

Their insights are helping societies develop and thrive in a more sustainable, equitable way.

Robert J. Fisher Chairman of the Board Gap Inc.

Over the last two years, a clear consensus has emerged: Securing the health of Earth’s climate, ecosystems and biodiversity is essential to the survival of all people.

The world now recognizes that environmental collapse will not only disproportionately affect marginalized people, but touch all communities, all businesses, all consumers, all governments, all voters.

And every week brings a new reason for urgency: droughts and floods; fires and superstorms; heatwaves and cold snaps.

weather is becoming more extreme — and as cracks emerge in the world’s great ice shelves, we are entering uncharted territory.

In a moment so grave, our work is no longer fringe — but our optimism does feel radical.

around us, and we have a larger coalition of the willing than ever before.

The future of our movement must be inclusive.

For too long, the history of conservation was defined by colonialism and callousness.

Many of the world’s most iconic parks and preserves sit atop sacred Indigenous sites, denigrating rich cultures and undercutting the extraordinary contributions these communities have to offer.

Conservation organizations must transform themselves and allow themselves to be transformed.

I have been a part of Conservation International since its inception in 1987.

But we have not always been attentive to unintended consequences.

way, with the right partners, guided by compassion, respect, and a commitment to listening and learning.

all those who share the belief that Earth must thrive for humanity to thrive.

Dear friends, For decades, Conservation International was swimming against the current.

As various crises came and went, our cause was often relegated to the margins.

and conservation an elitist exercise — the dominion of wayfarers, royals and sportsmen.

We know the coming decade will be a marked departure from the past.

Beyond the obvious effects of COVID-trends in nationalism, technology and climate will render many current operating models obsolete.

We had a remarkable year at Conservation International — one that would have felt impossible even a few years ago.

In virtually every facet of our work — partnerships and philanthropy, field and finance, science and sustainable livelihoods — we exceeded the benchmarks we set.

In the few areas impacted by the pandemic, we are already catching up.

In the following pages, you will find an overview of this year’s accomplishments, including major advances in climate finance, translational science and planet-positive economies.

Underpinning all this progress is a renewed focus on how we do our work.

I want to highlight two qualities that will define our future.

power of empathy — and learned how to better care for one another in a fragile, fragmented world.

In this spirit, we are investing heavily in our organizational culture, to ensure that cohesion and compassion are an immutable part of our day-to-day work — and moral anchors that ground us through periods of change.

In practice, this has meant training our entire staff in compassion-based ethics, deepening our partnerships with Indigenous peoples and local communities, and strengthening our practices so that we continue to be an equitable place to work.

Uncertainty has become a permanent part of modern living, and business-as-usual will not be sufficient to confront the historic challenges before us.

With help from our partners at IDEO, we have embraced the tenets of design thinking, a human-centric approach to management.

For more than three decades, Conservation International has continuously evolved to meet big challenges and operate in unfamiliar worlds.

I am confident that with our dynamic team and the support of our amazing community, we, like the salmon, will not just survive but succeed in this turbulent new world.

They spend their formative years in clear freshwater streams, and then, in the span of a few months, transform for a new life in the ocean.

Their morphology, physiology and behavior all change — and the darting speckled fish becomes a silver torpedo able to master a new saltwater realm.

Nature is full of organisms that can evolve, and adapt, to thrive in turbulent times.

The marine boundaries referenced in this map are sourced from Marine Regions and the land international boundaries are sourced from Natural Earth; both are in the public domain.

organizations and contributors on this map do not imply endorsement or acceptance by Conservation International of those boundaries or country names.

With offices in more than 100 countries, Conservation International’s reach has never been broader, but our mission remains the same: to protect nature for the benefit of us all.

At the UN climate talks in Glasgow, delegates put nature front and center to confront the climate crisis.

CEO M. Sanjayan joined financial leaders in announcing a pledge to end deforestation by 2025.

CENTER STAGE “Years from now, the point — the point at which the Paris Agreement’s aspirations finally began to turn into action,” according to Shyla Raghav, vice president of climate change at Conservation International.

For perhaps the first time, nature took center stage at the climate talks, thanks to years of strenuous effort — by Conservation International and others — to raise the profile and importance of nature as an essential solution to the global climate crisis.

The commitments and attention on nature, including a declaration by nearly 150 countries to end forest loss by 2030; a pledge by more than 30 financial institutions to eliminate deforestation from their portfolios by 2025; and $1.7 billion in pledges from governments and foundations to support the efforts of Indigenous peoples and local communities in protecting tropical forests.

We helped forge a breakthrough at international climate negotiations, which for the first time recognized the central role of nature as a climate solution — a position that we worked tirelessly for years to advance.

Our researchers helped to pinpoint the places in nature that humanity must protect.

And we worked with corporate partners to funnel millions of dollars toward protecting and restoring forests, perhaps humanity’s greatest ally in the climate fight.

But perhaps most significantly, the talks saw consensus on a matter that had long eluded agreement: global rules for carbon trading among countries to achieve their climate commitments.

partners on securing a deal for these rules (known as Article to natural climate solutions and help speed climate action.

As a next step, Conservation International and partners developed a roadmap to guide financial institutions in meeting their pledge to address deforestation risk in their portfolios and will be working to gain additional commitments from across the finance sector.

digital billboards, like this one in Switzerland, brought the sounds of nature to cities around the world.

It wasn’t the only way we ensured that nature’s voice was heard.

While You Can” campaign, which brought the sounds of nature to the streets of Glasgow — and beyond.

on the Philippines’ highest peak to the haunting calls of Madagascar’s lemurs.

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL “As the climate crisis unfolds, those least responsible — the Global South, Indigenous peoples and other marginalized communities — are the ones suffering the most.

I’m proud to work with Conservation International to mend humanity’s relationship with Earth — and do so in a way that gives voice to frontline communities.

The majority of Earth’s irrecoverable carbon is concentrated in a relatively small land area.

The good news: Nearly quarter of the world’s irrecoverable carbon is already located within protected areas.

A new way to protect coastal forests — and the massive amounts of climate-warming carbon they store — took root in Colombia, thanks to a project developed by Conservation International and partners.

Cispatá forest can now be valued for its climate benefits and included in carbon markets.

contributing to sustainable livelihoods and compensating landowners for protecting their mangroves.

initial funding needed to develop a sustainable ecotourism program and other economic activities for those who rely most on the mangrove forests.

To stop climate breakdown, we must emit less planet-warming greenhouse gases.

if the world stopped using fossil fuels tomorrow, we would fail to avert a worst-case climate scenario if we did not also reverse the destruction of ecosystems that absorb and store carbon.