ALBUQUERQUE OLDER ADULT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

The mission of Oasis is to promote healthy aging through lifelong learning, active lifestyles and volunteer engagement. The Oasis vision is to see that older adults across the country have opportunities to pursue vibrant, healthy, productive and meaningful lives. Oasis seeks to positively impact their lives through partnership to share knowledge, offer research-based programs, conduct evaluations and adapt to meet the needs of diverse audiences. Goals for 2022 are to: • Increase and diversify participation while maintaining program excellence • Increase financial sustainability and operational efficiency • Increase social impact • Increase volunteer engagement • Improve the field of aging by the dissemination of research findings and the sharing of best practices

The Oasis vision is to see that adults age 50 and older across the country have opportunities to pursue vibrant, healthy, productive and meaningful lives. Oasis seeks to positively impact their lives through partnership to share knowledge, offer research-based programs, conduct evaluations and adapt to meet the needs of diverse audiences.

Oasis Albuquerque is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Oasis Institute in St. Louis, Missouri. The Oasis Institute is the national headquarters and is led by Dr. Paul Weiss. A strong leadership team and Board of Directors support Dr. Weiss in this work. Oasis is already making strides towards reaching our goals. 1. More focus on the core demographic of 65-80 - Oasis dropped the former tagline of “Discover Life after 50." Our new tagline “Lifelong Adventure" better represents the organization and its work. 2. Increased focus on sustainability by offering high-quality classes and increasing fees, and expanding the fee-for service model of the tutoring program - The Oasis Institute is providing a business analysis of earned revenue looking at class enrollment, profit margin, class topics, and net revenue. 3. Increased focus on evidence-based health programs, especially fall prevention and chronic disease self-management a.Through new funding partnerships, Oasis has increased its evidence-based health programs nationwide 4. Developing a national approach to the delivery of technology programs, to include shorter courses and more focus on fraud and scam prevention. - Oasis now offers continually updates our Oasis Connections Technology curriculum to stay current. 5. Increased support for the Oasis network, particularly with marketing and fundraising - The Institute is implementing more focused, higher touch support to our center in the form of fundraising and marketing support, board building, and strategic plan development.

Oasis Albuquerque has 17,500 active participants with over 2400 class offerings in 2020.

ACTIVE LIFESTYLES: Oasis has expanded its physical space in order to increase program offerings, specifically evidence-based health programs such as fall prevention and chronic disease self-management programs.

VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT: The Intergenerational Tutoring Program had an active team of 400 volunteers during the 2019/2020 school year. The program teamed with 65 elementary schools in 4 public school districts – Albuquerque, Belen, Bernalillo and Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The program has been locally recognized by the National Education Association - NM Chapter in 2017 with their "Friend of Education Award." In 2019. the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education awarded Albuquerque Oasis Intergenerational Tutoring Program with their certificate for "Outstanding Public Service."

As the 60+ cohort will eventually represent more than 20% of the population, Oasis looks forward to expanding its work. Exciting plans for the future include: - Developing and piloting online classes to reach a broader audience and to generate new revenue. - Developing and implementing specific strategies that will demonstrate Oasis is a national thought leader in the field of healthy aging. – Increase the number of evidence-based health programs in our center - Increase the number of tutors by 10% by the end of 2020 - Increasing individual donations by 5% over the next two years.