FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2026
St. Louis, MO – A new wave of community innovation is underway to support America’s family caregivers, a population composed of more than 63 million people.
Today, Community Care Corps announced its 2026 national cohort of grantees, made possible through funding from the U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL). This new group of organizations spanning communities across the country will lead efforts to expand volunteer-driven support for family caregivers, older adults, and individuals with disabilities.
These grantees represent a powerful, community-based response to one of the nation’s most urgent and growing challenges: ensuring caregivers have the support they need to sustain their vital role.
Each selected grantee will develop, scale, and implement innovative local programs that mobilize volunteers to provide nonmedical assistance such as transportation, companionship, respite care, and help with daily tasks, offering caregivers meaningful relief. Additionally, these vital programs help individuals remain independent in their homes and communities.
Together, this cohort reflects the creativity and commitment of communities nationwide to reimagine how caregiving support is delivered. This new cohort builds on that foundation and advances the goals of ACL’s National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers, which calls for expanded access to resources that protect caregivers’ health and well-being while enabling them to continue caring for their loved ones.
Community Care Corps is managed by the Oasis Institute in partnership with Caregiver Action Network, USAging, and Altarum. Since its launch in 2019, the program has supported community-based organizations in developing and scaling volunteer models that address gaps in caregiving support.
“At the Oasis Institute, we consider all aspects of healthy aging as our scope of work,” said Paul Weiss, Oasis President. “The impact of caregiving for an older person creates economic and quality of life ripples through a multi-generational family, the communities in which they live and work, the healthcare system, and social support systems. Community Care Corps explores ways volunteers can provide meaningful support to family caregivers in myriad ways, and these constructive impacts create similar ripples that lead to improved outcomes across those same family, community, healthcare, and social safety net systems.”
“This new cohort represents the future of caregiving in America, one where communities come together to ensure caregivers are seen, supported, and not left to do this work alone,” said Marvell Adams Jr., Chief Executive Officer of Caregiver Action Network. “Through these grantees, we are expanding a national network of care that strengthens families, promotes independence, and brings dignity to millions of Americans.”
“Community Care Corps is investing in innovative solutions that expand access to direct supports for older adults, individuals with disabilities, and the family caregivers who play such a vital role in their lives,” said USAging CEO Sandy Markwood. “Together, these grantees will elevate volunteer models of nonmedical assistance that will create more supportive communities nationwide.”
With this new cohort, Community Care Corps continues to grow a nationwide movement powered by volunteers, driven by community, and dedicated to ensuring that every caregiver has the support they need to thrive.
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Contacts:
Oasis Institute
Sara Paige
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Caregiver Action Network
Nichole Goble
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USAging
Mary Ek
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About the Partnership team
About Oasis:
Oasis founded in 1982, is a national nonprofit organization that is active in over 250 communities and reaches more than 50,000 individuals each year. Headquartered in St. Louis, MO, Oasis is dedicated to promoting healthy aging for older adults through lifelong learning, active lifestyles, and volunteer engagement. Oasis enables adults ages 50 and over across the country to pursue vibrant, healthy, productive, and meaningful lives through in-person and online classes covering a variety of topics including arts and humanities, exercise, and more. Oasis’s flagship Intergenerational Tutoring program works in partnership with school districts across the country to pair volunteer tutors with struggling readers in grades K-3 who teachers feel would benefit from a caring, one-on-one mentoring relationship. More recently, the growing caregiving crisis has steered Oasis toward development and implementation of strategies to support caregivers, caregiver families and caregiver organizations as a part of our mission to enhance the lives of older adults.
About Caregiver Action Network (CAN):
Caregiver Action Network (www.CaregiverAction.org) is the nation’s leading family caregiver organization working to improve the quality of life for more than 90 million Americans who care for loved ones with chronic conditions, disabilities, disease or who are meeting the living needs of older adults. CAN serves a broad spectrum of family caregivers ranging from the parents of children with significant health needs to the families and friends of wounded soldiers, from a young couple dealing with a diagnosis of MS to adult children caring for parents with Alzheimer’s disease. CAN reaches caregivers on multiple platforms. CAN (the National Family Caregivers Association) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing education, peer support, and resources to family caregivers across the country free of charge.
About USAging:
USAging is the national association representing and supporting the network of Area Agencies on Aging and advocating for the Title VI Native American Aging Programs. Our members help older adults and people with disabilities throughout the United States live with optimal health, well-being, independence and dignity in their homes and communities. USAging and our members work to improve the quality of life and health of older adults and people with disabilities, including supporting people with chronic illness, people living with dementia, family caregivers and others who want to age well at home and in the community. Together, we are ensuring that all people can age well. Our members are the local leaders that develop, coordinate and deliver a wide range of home and community-based services, including information and referral/assistance, case management, home-delivered and congregate meals, in-home services, caregiver supports, transportation, evidence-based health and wellness programs, long-term care ombudsman programs, and more.
