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EngAGE Receives Bank of America Charitable Foundation 2016 Basic Needs Grant
EngAGE would like to thank the Bank of America Charitable Foundation for its generous $10,000 Basic Needs Grant which we will use for our multi-faceted EngAGE in Wellness program.
The EngAGE in Wellness program provides onsite delivery of several tons of free food each month to thousands of low-income seniors living in 36 affordable apartment communities in Los Angeles, Orange, and San Bernardino counties in Southern California.
EngAGE has partnered with several large Southern California food banks to have our trucks pick up our allocation of food. It’s then parceled into easy-to-carry packages and delivered to our communities where our low-income senior residents receive the healthy food they need to sustain them each month. This service eliminates the problems many of our seniors face when trying to access food banks: the packaging of food is too bulky and the pick-up locations are often unreachable.
In addition to providing access to food, we also provide free weekly onsite wellness classes, teaching low-income seniors how to prepare healthy meals, practice better nutrition behaviors (including financial planning for grocery shopping), and retain their health and independence. Residents particularly enjoy cooking together and sharing the tasty results.
We also offer classes in exercise, strength building, fall prevention, health education, medication management, and others that catalyze low-income seniors to take on healthy behaviors that keep them in independent affordable housing and out of higher levels of care. This saves society large amounts of dollars in public subsidies and creates substantial savings for families.
The EngAGE in Wellness program also provides needs-based onsite staff services. Services like discount utilities, financial assistance, health access, transportation, financial literacy education, computer literacy, and others become readily available through this program, creating better financial stability and health for a very under-served population.
Through the years, EngAGE also has installed and supervised on-site vegetable gardens in 14 senior communities we serve. Residents choose whether to have separate plots, or to share the produce harvested throughout the community, so that all residents have access to fresh fruits and vegetables to supplement their diet. Residents often prepare meals together using produce from the community gardens, and our cooking/nutrition classes also enjoy the healthy garden ingredients.
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation directs funding to meet the needs of low-income communities, with a particular focus on revitalizing neighborhoods, educating the workforce for 21st century jobs, and addressing basic needs, such as hunger and homelessness. The EngAGE in Wellness program is honored by this grant which helps us deliver vital services that address basic needs of the residents in our communities.
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Welcome to the EngAGE Team: Marshall Nalle Ayers
Marshall Nalle Ayers, Program Director, ACE/121 Glendale Arts Colony – Marshall is a skilled arts education specialist with 25 plus years experience in K-12 program development and administration across multiple art forms, with leadership roles in strategic planning, community partnerships, event management, communications and fund development in both public and non-profit settings. Most recently Marshall was the District Arts Education Coordinator for the Pasadena Unified School District where she oversaw curriculum and instruction in visual art, music, drama and dance at 26 school sites for 18,000 students. She was also the Founding Executive Director for Ryman Arts, a high school visual art program, and still serves on their Board of Directors. She attended the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, CT, and has a BA in Theatre Arts from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. A dedicated advocate for arts education, Marshall recently launched Artzray, an “e-zine” for young people pursuing careers in the arts.
Photos: Tim Carpenter in Edmonton, AB
Greetings!
On November 15th, EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter greatly enjoyed speaking on “The Art of Active Aging” at Kensington Village for the Shepherd’s Care Foundation‘s Campus of Wellness and Care Demonstration Project. He sent along these photos from the event.
Presenting the EngAGE model to the Alberta Government and thought leaders at Government House, Edmonton
New colleagues and friends at the Governor’s House, Edmonton
Worth Repeating: Citizen Archivists
“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring
you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain
fun! From 11/18/12:
Seniors have lived through some fascinating times and, as a result, usually appreciate the value of historic preservation. There’s one place that keeps track of all the photos and documents that track the history of our country and the people who live in it: The National Archives. Did you know that you can assist them in cataloging the vast quantity of items they preserve on our behalf and make them accessible to everyone online? Become a Citizen Archivist and you can tag photos and records, transcribe documents, even add your own knowledge of our nation’s history by contributing an article. Click hereto learn more.
News from Long Beach Senior Arts Colony: “Connections – The Mind is a Muscle Project” Art Show
The Long Beach Senior Arts Colony welcomed a new art exhibit called “Connections” with an opening reception held on Thursday, November 10th.
“The Mind is a Muscle Project” was a 12-week workshop for seniors, that aimed to protect brain health and stave off dementia. In the workshop, seniors learned about the neuroscience of brain plasticity and explored the multiple facets of communication and idea-making. Instructor Colette Brown, who led this interactive art workshop involving 12 of our LBSAC seniors, recently gave a TEDx talk about the subject: the brain is like a muscle — the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
“Connections” not only exhibits the tangible product of the participants’ handiwork, but also provides evidence of their less tangible brain work. Neural connections were manifest through connections of language-to movement-to drawing-to sculpture-to rhythm. Their work made unexpected connections as the seniors journeyed through the process of thinking about thinking.
The “Connections” exhibit will run through January, 2017, at LBSAC.
See photos and a brief video.
~ Helene Weinberg, Creative Programs Director
Experience Talks Rewind 11/20: Tony Curtis
Tune in to Experience Talks, our weekly “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener,” on Sundays at 5:00 PM PT on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online, and now syndicated on up to 100 Pacifica Network stations! Experience Talks is produced by the non-profit EngAGE, Inc.
Miss the show? You can always hear it as a podcast on the Listen Page of our website! You’ll also find an archive-in-progress of all of our previous shows there for you to enjoy. New shows are usually posted within 48 hours after broadcast.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 @ 5 PM PT
TONY CURTIS
with host TIM CARPENTER
Tony Curtis; Tim Carpenter; Tony’s wife, Jill
Tony Curtis came out of the Hollywood studio system in the 1950s to find both wide popularity and critical acclaim as an actor in dramatic and comic roles alike.
Mr. Curtis was one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age. He became a respected dramatic actor, earning an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in “The Defiant Ones,” a 1958 Stanley Kramer film. But he was equally adept in comedies, including the classic, “Some Like It Hot,” in 1959.
Curtis also had a second career as an artist beginning in the early 1960s. He cited Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Balthus as his major influences.
Tony Curtis passed away on September 9, 2010. We are fortunate that Tim Carpenter had interviewed him in May of that year. Their conversation was recorded live, in front of an adoring audience, at Fletcher Jones Auditorium at Woodbury University in Burbank, CA, thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Learn more about Tony Curtis here.
