Hands to Help Seniors
Monterey, CA #GivingTuesday And Hands To Help Seniors
by Richard Kuehn on 12/02/13
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From A Nonprofit Serving Seniors In Carmel, Carmel Valley, Gonzalez,
Greenfield, King City, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Salinas,
Seaside And Soledad California
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday,
a national campaign which is run each
year the Tuesday after Thanksgiving to encourage people to give to
charity. It's backed by major companies
like Microsoft and Sony and was a huge success last year, with online giving up
50% the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Paypal mobile donations were 487% higher than the previous year. There are now 7,500 nonprofits participating
in this great event. We hope you will
support us and help us help seniors by making a donation to Hands to Help
Seniors, and at this time we are participating in a matching funds program. We have been chosen by the Community
Foundation to participate in a matching funds program called Birdies for
Charity, which is done in conjunction with the AT&T Pro Am golf
tournament. This will occur between
February 6-9, 2014. You can help in one
of two ways. You can pledge an amount
"per birdie". For example, if
1,800 birdies are made during the tournament, you would be committed to contribute
$18. This past year, 1,823 birdies were
made. In addition, you can make a cash
donation at the following web site:
https://events.r2it.com/birdies/r.aspx?site=ATTPebbleBeach&charity=HandstoHelpSeniors
This year, the Community Foundation has a contest called
the Chevron Shoot-Out Qualifier. If we
are able to raise $1,000 by December 31 from 15 different donors, we have a
shot at getting a $50,000 bonus. Please
help us meet this goal by donating $20 or more at the previously mentioned
website.
Hands to Help Seniors is a unique nonprofit on the Monterey Peninsula which helps senior citizens facing a one-time financial crisis. Some of our recent accomplishments and clients we are working with include:
Client 1 lives in Salinas. She is very poor and has her rent paid by her
church as well as some of her food and other expenses. However, she needs some dental work done and
cannot afford this. Hands to Help
Seniors plans to help her with this one-time cost of getting her dental work
done.
Client 2 lives in Carmel Valley and her porch was collapsing which endangered her safety. We have hired a licensed contract to make her home stable and safe again.
Client 3 lives in Salinas and we helped her get her dentures replaced. This client was sent to us via Legal Services for Seniors. She lives alone and had been trying to have her dentures replaced due to a hospital losing them and not agreeing to replace them. She had lost 30 pounds because she had a hard time eating without her dentures. She is now recovered, thanks to Hands to Help Seniors.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/01/givingtuesday-charity-day/3797705/
About Richard Kuehn And
Hands to Help Seniors:
After more than a decade of caregiving, both
in a professional environment and for a 97 year old family member, it became
clear to me that there are many seniors that can't afford to pay for a private
duty caregiver, not to mention medical expenses, food and property taxes on
their home. I decided to form a non-profit to help seniors with any
service they might need to get by, should they be unable to afford this themselves.
From putting on a new roof to providing a hot meal, Hands to Help Seniors is
there to help. Please visit my blog where I talk about important senior
issues at:
http://www.h2hs.org/news-and-media.html
Please note that this blog reflects my
personal opinion and may or may not reflect the opinion of Hands to Help
Seniors and the individual members comprising the Board of Governors.
Salinas, CA Alliance On Aging Looking For Volunteers
by Richard Kuehn on 11/30/13
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From A Nonprofit Serving Seniors In Carmel, Carmel Valley, Gonzalez,
Greenfield, King City, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Salinas,
Seaside And Soledad California
The Alliance on Aging is looking
for volunteers to help it with its Senior Outreach Luncheons, which are held at
St. Ansgar's Church at 72 East Joaquin
Street in Salinas. The next one will
be held on December 3. The church holds
various luncheons and dinners, and it's a great way for seniors to get out of
the house and get social stimulation.
The luncheon is just $7 which includes lunch, dessert and a choice of a
beverage. If you are interested in
helping with this lunch, the time commitment would be for about three to four
hours on the first Tuesday of each month.
If you would like to help, please call Teresa Sullivan or Michelle Lopez
at 655-1334. The Alliance on Aging is a great
organization which helps seniors with a number of matters including tax
preparation, an ombudsman program to prevent abuse in long-term care
facilities, employment training and finding a job and HICAP Medicare
counseling.
Please note that this blog reflects my personal opinion and may or may not reflect the opinion of Hands to
Monterey, CA Affordable Housing in Pebble Beach A No Go
by Richard Kuehn on 11/29/13
View From A Nonprofit Serving Seniors In Carmel, Carmel Valley, Gonzalez,
Greenfield, King City, Marina, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Salinas,
Seaside And Soledad California
Neighbors who live in
close vicinity to the location where the Pebble Beach Company was going to
build affordable housing units appear to have won the battle of getting the
project cancelled. The Pacific Grove
City Council has unanimously voted to take the
side of residents in the Del Monte Park area and oppose the new project. "We are concerned that the project will
have a harmful impact upon a significant number of our citizens," council
members Ken Cuneo and Dan Miller wrote to the Pebble Beach Company. The letter is also being sent to the
Monterey County Board of Supervisors and the county planning commission. The units were going to be built as part of
the last development in the Del Monte Forest, which includes a new resort and
spa. However, given all of the uproar by
Pebble Beach residents, the 24-unit apartment complex will likely be built
somewhere else in Monterey County.
Please note that this blog reflects my
personal opinion and may or may not reflect the opinion of Hands to Help
Seniors and the individual members comprising the Board of Governors.
Monterey, CA Hands to Help Seniors Joins Birdies For Charity, An AT&T Pro-Am Fundraiser
by Richard Kuehn on 11/25/13
View From A Nonprofit Serving Seniors In
Carmel, Carmel Valley, Gonzalez, Greenfield, King City, Marina, Monterey,
Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach, Salinas, Seaside And Soledad California
We have some exciting news about Hands to Help
Seniors. We have been chosen by the
Community Foundation to participate in a matching funds program called Birdies
for Charity, which is done in conjunction with the AT&T Pro Am golf
tournament. This will occur between February
6-9, 2014.
You can help in one of two ways. You can pledge an amount "per
birdie". For example, if 1,800
birdies are made during the tournament, you would be committed to contribute
$18. This past year, 1,823 birdies were
made. In addition, you can make a cash
donation at the following web site:
https://events.r2it.com/birdies/r.aspx?site=ATTPebbleBeach&charity=HandstoHelpSeniors
This year, the Community Foundation has a contest called
the Chevron Shoot-Out Qualifier. If we
are able to raise $1,000 by December 31 from 15 different donors, we have a
shot at getting a $50,000 bonus. Please
help us meet this goal by donating $20 or more at the previously mentioned
website.
Hands
to Help Seniors is a unique nonprofit on the Monterey Peninsula which helps
senior citizens facing a one-time financial crisis. Some of our recent accomplishments and
clients we are working with include:
Client 1 lives in Salinas. She is very poor and has her rent paid by her
church as well as some of her food and other expenses. However, she needs some dental work done and
cannot afford this. Hands to Help
Seniors plans to help her with this one-time cost of getting her dental work
done.
Client 2 lives in Carmel Valley and her porch
was collapsing which endangered her safety.
We have hired a licensed contract to make her home stable and safe
again.
Client 3 lives in Salinas and we helped her
get her dentures replaced. This client
was sent to us via Legal Services for Seniors.
She lives alone and had been trying to have her dentures replaced due to
a hospital losing them and not agreeing to replace them. She had lost 30 pounds because she had a hard
time eating without her dentures. She is
now recovered, thanks to Hands to Help Seniors.
Monterey, CA 38% Of Low Income Monterey County Residents Don't Have An Adequate Diet
by Richard Kuehn on 11/24/13
There was a sad story in the Monterey Herald entitled "Thousands in county struggle to buy food." Unfortunately, it's true. We hear from senior citizens all of the time who are struggling to get by. The cost of day-to-day living is going up faster than Social Security, which is supposed to rise only 1.5% next year. "If your Pacific Gas & Electric Company bill goes up because it's cold out, or your prescription drug prices go up, you have nothing left for food," Joe Splane, a board member at the Food Bank for Monterey County, told the paper. A survey by UCLA which was released last week found that there are at least 4 million Californians who couldn't consistently afford food between 2011 and 2012, not surprising given the high unemployment rate including the huge number of baby boomers who have been laid off and haven't been able to find a new job. Roughly 38% of low-income Monterey County residents do not have access to a regular diet, according to the UCLA Survey. Sadly, there is a bill before the Senate which would cut $4 billion from the food stamp program (CalFresh SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Although that's a fraction of the $40 billion that the House of Representatives proposed cutting, it's still a lot of food that will not be going into the mouths of Americans.
