Grants senior citizens programs

Capital assistance program for elderly people — This grant is awarded by the Federal Transit Administration to help provide public transportation to senior citizens. This program is offered in rural and urban areas across the U. Foster grandparent program — This grant is awarded by the Corporation for National and Community Service to seniors 55 and older who will participate in volunteer services.

These seniors will average between 15 and 40 hours of volunteering a week to help children to read, advise troubled teens, etc. If they qualify as low income they may receive small payments for their time and will also receive the proper training, free meals, and accident insurance. This program is to help keep seniors active in the community and mentor the new generations.

It all began when Gabriella Ager , 16, a junior at West Morris Mendham High School and her brother Eli, 13, an eighth grader at Mountain View Middle School, came up with the idea to connect virtually with senior citizens in the pandemic. It was how "Bringing Stories to Seniors" came to life, a few of her friends also volunteering to read.

Ager said when her children came to her with the idea, she was very proud of them for thinking of and executing it.

Ager began reading to a senior citizen that she and her brother were both very acquainted with, their grandmother Judith Ager. Since the brother and sister team have started their reading program, they read to seven senior citizens by phone throughout the region, she told Patch. Ager said the Chabad she volunteers with reached out to Brightview Nursing Home in Randolph on their behalf; and their mother said another nursing home in Pennsylvania just contacted them with interest in their program.

One of the ways she and her brother also help, Ager said, is with a delivery service, where they drop off books to local seniors from the Mendham Borough Library. Would you like to volunteer to read to seniors over the phone; or ask that one of the Bringing Stories To Seniors volunteers read to a senior citizen in your life?

Contact gabbychessie23 gmail. Questions or comments about this story? The Foundation is a committed champion of health care training, research, and service system innovations that will ensure the well being and vitality of older adults. The Funds, founded on the principles of the Religious Society of Friends Quakers , is the philanthropic arm of the Company that provides independent living, assisted living, memory support, skilled nursing and rehabilitation care.

The Funds seek to transform the experience of aging. The objective is to highlight a diverse group of social innovators, whose stories represent multiple ways that people over 60, who are legal residents of the United States or its territories, arrive at and carry out important work addressing tough social problems.

The Foundation, created by John D. MacArthur of the MacArthur Foundation, is accepting proposals from nonprofits for local and national projects designed to improve the quality of life for older Americans.