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PRESS RELEASE. From Senior Coastsiders Director, Sandi Winters, April 25, 2022.
“I applied for a State Fund Neighborhood Assist grant to make our community more Age Friendly.
We have been selected from a pool of 4,000 applicants nationwide to be in the top 200. Only the top 100 applications will be funded and the selection will be made by community vote between April 27th and May 6th.
Please help spread the word.” ~ Sandi Winters
Senior Coastsiders is one of the top 200 finalists (selected from a pool of 4,000!) in the nationwide State Farm Neighborhood Assist® grant program.
100 winning causes will be chosen to win a $25,000 grant. We need you to rally behind our cause of creating an inclusive and age friendly Coastside community by casting your votes!
Click HERE and vote for Senior Coastsiders.
Voting is open from 12:00:00 A.M. ET on April 27 until May 6 at 11:59:59 P.M. ET and you can vote up to 10 times per day, every day for Senior Coastsiders. If you have more than one email address, you can vote even more!
Please forward this to your colleagues, friends and family to vote and help spread the word.
Thanks in advance for your support!
Senior Coastsiders
PRESS RELEASE.
Senior Coastsiders has been selected as a State Farm Neighborhood Assist® Top 200 Finalist and needs your votes!
Senior Coastsiders needs your help by voting for them to receive a $25,000 grant from State Farm® to help make the Coastside more Age Friendly. Starting April 27 at 12:00am ET, U.S. residents who are 18 and older with a valid email address can vote for their favorite cause at www.neighborhoodassist.com.
Senior Coastsiders has until May 6 at 11:59pm ET to rally votes and anyone voting is allowed up to 10 votes per day. On June 7, the top 100 vote-receiving causes will be announced at www.neighborhoodassist.com and a $25,000 grant will be awarded to each of the affiliated nonprofits.
Population aging is one of the biggest social transformations in the 21st century. In San Mateo County over 17% of our population are aged 65+. In the last 6 months of 2021 information about the unmet needs of seniors in our community was gathered during a series of focus groups that included seniors of varying income levels, Latinos, Chinese and the homeless. These needs include difficulty accessing healthcare, particularly for those who no longer drive; lack of information about and access to affordable housing; inadequate real-time information about age friendly activities taking place in the community; the importance of reducing ageism through community education, and the need to form a Coalition to coordinate and support local initiatives to increase the age friendliness of our community.
The State Farm Neighborhood Assist funds will be used to fund activities designed to meet the previously identified unmet needs of seniors in the domains of healthcare, housing, transportation, communication and information and social inclusion and respect. These include exploring options to improve access to healthcare for seniors in our isolated rural community; providing public education workshops about affordable housing options; developing communications infrastructure to ensure the dissemination of timely information about programs and services relevant to seniors; the development and implementation of anti-ageism training and the formation of an Age Friendly Coalition to advance the work and ensure sustainability.
“I’m so excited that Senior Coastsiders is one of the Top 200 Causes in the State Farm Neighborhood Assist program and has the chance of winning a $25,000 Grant! I have lived in HMB for nearly 30 years, and been a State Farm Agent for 21. Senior Coastsiders has been an integral part of our community and I hope people will come together to vote for this cause, allowing them to help continue their partnership with the City and others on the Coast to create an Age Friendly Community for us all.” said Heidi Kuiper, State Farm Insurance Agent in Half Moon Bay.
As part of it’s mission to support successful aging, Senior Coastsiders is committed to working with the City of Half Moon Bay and other private, public and non-profit organizations to adapt the environments in which we live, work, and play to meet the needs of a growing older population on the Coastide. This is sound preparation to ensure we are best prepared to foster healthy aging, reduce inequities, enhance inter-generational solidarity, and provide benefits for all ages.
“Living longer presents huge opportunities to create vibrant and resilient communities that support health, wellbeing, and quality of life for everyone.“ said Sandi Winter, Executive Director of Senior Coastsiders.
State Farm Neighborhood Assist is a crowd-sourced philanthropic initiative that empowers communities to identify issues in their neighborhoods The State Farm Review Committee selected the top 200 finalists from 4,000 submissions.
Media Contacts:
Sandi Winter, Executive Director, Senior Coastsiders, www.seniorcoastsiders.org,
[email protected], 650-726-9056
Author: Coastside Buzz
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