b'Helping the Frail ElderlyBoca RatonHELPING SENIORS IN MANY WAYS IN BOCA RATON/DELRAYThe Volen Center (TVC) offers a myriad of programs designed to bring better health, fun, laughter and companionship into the lives of senior citizensall based on a preventative concept designed to nurture the mind, body, and spirit to foster continued good health.Throughtheyears,HOThasmademultiplegrantstoTVC,including(i)threechallenge grants that other donors to the Volen Center met that permitted the offering of quality food to financially troubled seniors at 50% of cost, (ii) a successful pilot program using Nurse Practitioners, (iii) a grant to TVC to cover the basic cost of a build-out of a treatment room for this program, (iv) a challenge grant that was met by the Volen Board which when combined met the terms of a Federal 9-1 granttopurchase4vans,creating19-1leverageon HOTsgrant,(v)computers,(vi)agranttomeetthe shortagefromsequesteringthatwouldhaveotherwise resultedinseniorsbeinghungry,(vii)funding25Life Enrichment Memberships for residents of both the Gould and Weinberg Houses, (viii) subsidizing the expansion of TVCs computer literacy program, (ix) funding of lunch for themonthlygatheringsofHolocaustsurvivors,and childrenofsurvivors,thatwashostedattheTVCasa collaborativeeffortofTVCandboththeAlpertJewish Family Service and JFS, and (x) the last dollars needed to payforabreakfastprogramforseniorswhocometoTVCwithouthavinghad breakfast. We have also approved 65 grants totaling $23,575.47 from a fund we set up at TVCtopayonetimeemergencyaid(rent,electric,etc.)toseniors.Thinkofit,atan average grant of $354.37 ($235.68 when we count spouses) we changed the lives of 99 people who had varied problems ranging from getting their water and electricity turned back on, to a paymenttoalandlordtoavoideviction,topayingemergencymedicalexpensesand prescriptions. As in all of our emergency aid funds, nothing can be paid unless all other possibilities of aid have been exhausted. We would like our donors to consider: $3,000tocontinuecomputerliteracy program (see picture at right) $4,000 for exercise & nutrition program $5,000toprovide6,000breakfastsfor low income seniors $15,000 for 5 full-year scholarships for seniors who have been newly diagnosed with Alzheimers diseases or age-related memory loss $29,448 for 312 passenger buses @ $9,816 each to add to US government grant 39'