Highlights from Our EngAGEd Summer: 2021

Posted on September 13, 2021 by EngAGE

The EngAGE team provided lively, creative, summer 2021 programming and vital services for the residents of our communities in California and Oregon, even in the face of pandemic challenges and restrictions! Here are just a few highlights.

Record temperatures in Southern California brought Dorado Senior Apartments and Burbank Senior Artists Colony residents to their pools to enjoy Aqua Zumba and Fitness Classes.
The Community Garden at Crescent Park in Richmond, CA, was reinvigorated during June with fresh wood chips, planter boxes, soil, and decorations! That’s Laura Mason, Executive Director, Northern California, at bottom left, delivering her lovely gift to the community during the Self Care Day celebration.
In March of 2020, in-person programming came to a stop. At Magnolia at HIghland Senior Apartments, the ladies in the Artists Round Table were in the middle of making charming dolls using fabric and yarn, and learning some sewing skills along the way. Sixteen months later, they were able to pick up where they left off and happily finish their wonderful dolls! 
At Patton Home in Portland, OR, products from the Mainspring food pantry are stocked in the EngAGE office. Residents shop from a list, then the items are packed in bags and safely distributed to them. The food services EngAGE provides at our communities remain vital to our residents as the pandemic continues.

More Summer News

Tim Carpenter was honored with a sabbatical fellowship from the Durfee Foundation in recognition of his leadership. The fellowship provides funds for travel for Tim, as well as funds to advance the skills and wellbeing of the EngAGE staff.

On Our Website

EngAGE programming has a profound effect on our residents. Visit our new Testimonials page, to see what some of them have to say.

We hope you’ll enjoy learning more about some of the people who work for EngAGE by reading Stories from the Team, including one from Tim Carpenter titled, “Gardens, Gangstas, Profanity and Learning.”

Grants

Generous funding from The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural affairs allows us to provide multi-week art workshops, including culminating events, for residents in our Los Angeles communities.

A generous grant from Bank of America helps fund our EngAGE in Wellness program which includes our  partnerships with several large food banks, creation and maintenance of many of our community gardens, and free onsite wellness classes.

The Future

We remain optimistic about the future and look forward to continuing to serve our community residents with classes and workshops that are stimulating, informative, and fun, whether online or, when possible, in person!

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EngAGE takes a whole-person approach to community and creative, healthy living by providing arts, wellness, lifelong learning, community building, and intergenerational programs to thousands of residents in affordable senior and multi-generational apartment communities in California and Oregon.


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