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Table of Contents
- Where are you located?
- How long have you been around?
- Are you a 501(c)(3)?
- How big are you?
- How will the money be used?
- What's your overhead (i.e. how much of my donation goes to the real work?)
- Who are your funders and donors?
- Why aren't you bigger and more successful?
- How many people have you served?
- Where are you located?
Palo Alto, CA
- How long have you been around?
Senior New Ways was formed in January 2005.
- Are you a 501(c)(3)?
Yes, since June 2005.
- How big are you?
One full time staff (Executive Director), fourteen third party affiliated teachers / facilitators, 35 visitors / volunteers, a volunteer community-based Board of Directors (10), and a community-based Board of Trustees (40 individual donors).
Our budget/annual income is $85,000, with 90% from donations, plus some fees for group classes and some small grants for classes at specific sites.
- How will the money be used?
(1) We are training and coordinating volunteer home visitors in neighborhoods in Santa Clara and San Mateo (California) counties. Our trainers and coordinators are all professional gerontologists who are paid by the hour. Most sites (community centers, senior centers, libraries, churches, etc.) where we do the training can’t afford to pay and neither can the trainees.
(2) We are putting 50 of our entertainment/educational sessions on DVD (the sessions are from our Coming Fully Alive as You Age sessions under Programs). We have to pay for the direction, editing and marketing which will average from $1000 - $3000 per session.
((3) We are offering 50 different entertaining / motivational / educational sessions to groups at public sites all over the Bay Area. Most sites can’t afford the $200 fee for 1.5 hours of a professional gerontologist leader.
- What's your overhead (i.e. how much of my donation goes to
the real work?)
90%
- Who are your funders and donors?
We have 100 individual donors (40 are committed donor-trustees) and receive 2-3 grants of $5000 per year to date. We have submitted larger grant requests but have not been successful yet.
- Why aren't you bigger and more successful?
Until late 2009, we were led by the founder of Senior New Ways who had a more limited vision of the organization. She retired at the end of 2009. With the transition to a new Executive Director at the beginning of 2010, our mission/vision and approach to funding have changed.
- How many people have you served?
We have served approximately 3000 people in 125 sites. We formed 8 support groups out of our classes, that are ongoing, one of them for over five years. We also develop and maintain groups of adult children of seniors, and caregivers of seniors.