Direct services: sage offers innovative services and programs to lgbt older people nationwide-throughout New York city and through our national affiliate program, sagenet. From arts and culture, to health and wellness, and much more, sage's innovative services and programs support thousands of lgbt older people in communities around the country. Additionally, sage programs are often expanded into various sites around the country. Sage trains providers of services to elderly populations in the best ways to effectively support and engage lgbt elders in long term care facilities and other settings. Our premier lgbt cultural competence training, sagecare, draws from the best minds in the field and has been shown to improve knowledge and skills among trainees. Sage also retains a training corps of more than 40 cultural competence experts throughout the us. As of December 31, 2019, sage has trained over 106,000 care professionals nationally. Sage's national resource center on lgbt aging curates hundreds of online resources and free presentation materials for downloading and offers local resource connections by geographical area. The website is accessed by thousands of visitors every month. Sage creates online consumer resources for lgbt older people around the country to assist them in making better choices about their health, retirement, caregiving options and more. Sage's online outlets have reached 6 millions impressions, over 218 thousand engagements with roughly 53 thousand followers across our social media pages.

Public outreach: sage advocates at the federal, state and local levels for public policies that will end discrimination and improve economic security, community support, health and wellness among the growing population of lgbt older people and older people living with HIV. Our federal policy program works to ensure that policymakers in congress and the administration enact policies that address the needs of lgbt older people and older people living with HIV. Additionally, sage works with local lgbt aging advocates around the country to develop and achieve their local and state policy agendas. Sage builds the capacity of local sage affiliates nationwide to provide services and to engage in policy advocacy that improves the lives of their local constituents. In the process, we build a national, grassroots movement to protect the rights and improve the quality of life of lgbt elders. From rural to urban settings, in every region of the country, sagenet leaders are creating local supports for lgbt older people in their communities, training their aging service networks, and reaching out to government leaders to address the public policies that affect lgbt elders. Sage collaborates with 29 local sage affiliates in 21 states and puerto rico. Through sagenet, sage and its affiliates engaged more than 13,000 lgbt older adults in 2019.Sage is fully committed to diversity and equity and is in the midst of a multi-year diversity and equity initiative that focuses on racial, gender, and other forms of equity. Sage partners with leaders in the aging field and the lgbt movement to broaden our collective reach, increase awareness of the needs of lgbt elders among policymakers and providers through education and training, and inform one another's approaches to improving the lives of lgbt older people. Sage recognizes the tremendous value of partnership and coalition building. This is evident across all of our activities, including in the work of a historic diverse elders coalition comprising national organizations representing elders from diverse and under-represented ethnic and racial groups as well as lgbt elders.