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In 2025, we faced historic cuts to our care. Just when we thought the stakes couldn’t be higher, they rose. And so did we. Taking our cues from caregivers, we organized, built power, secured policy victories, and continued to reimagine care for our future.
In 2025, we faced historic threats to the systems families rely on every day.
Families navigated funding cuts, growing waitlists, and a shrinking infrastructure, making care even harder to find and afford. These challenges exposed just how fragile and inadequate our care systems truly are. But caregivers, care recipients, and care workers kept showing up—with resilience, creativity, and deep love for one another.
Together, we advanced state policy wins, elevated care in pop culture, and brought care stories and organizing pressure directly to legislators in Washington, D.C., when Medicaid came under threat. We continued to shift the narrative, making it clear that this isn’t about personal responsibility, but about the public promises and systems that fail families and fall short when care is needed the most.
In 2026, our current system is under acute pressure. Even as we work tirelessly to protect access to care, we see this moment as an opportunity to reset our vision and reimagine what the system could be. Grounded in our pillars of care—child care, paid leave, aging and disability care, and good care jobs—and led by the people living the impact of our system’s failure every day, we are seeding the vision and care infrastructure of the next era.
When Medicaid came under threat, we mobilized caregivers, advocates, and families nationwide to defend the essential programs that millions of people rely on. Through vigils, rallies, coalition actions, and direct advocacy, we showcased stories that make it impossible to ignore the human cost of care cuts.
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In states across the country, we worked alongside partners and advocates to secure meaningful policy wins for caregiving families, care workers, older adults, and people with disabilities.
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We continued to shift how care narratives are represented in culture by partnering with storytellers across film, television, journalism, digital content and visual arts to tell more honest, human care stories and seed change in media and pop culture.
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We invested in long-term movement infrastructure by expanding leadership pipelines, deepening advocacy capacity, and growing our national and state-based network of care champions.
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Even amid urgent threats to care, we created space to imagine and build toward a better future. CareFest brought together caregivers, creators, storytellers, and changemakers to envision what care could become, and seed new ideas, and pathways for turning vision into action.
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Relationship-building and resourcing strategies with key care champions in the world of philanthropy.
Sustaining mission-aligned and power-building strategies, activities, and tactics across our program verticals—from policy, advocacy, and organizing to digital strategies and narrative and culture change.
2026 will be a defining year for Caring Across Generations. We’re launching 1 Million Care Conversations and the State Care Network to listen to families, build power, connect partners, and win real change. We’re shaping a unifying story of care in America. And we’re launching our multi-media entertainment company, Give Not Take Media to partner with artists to tell great stories about care on screens.
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