Freshen up Flint with Fruits and vegtables for senior citizens
Grant Information | |
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Requested | 45000.0 |
Granted | 5000.00 |
Categories | Healthcare , Environment , Education , Community |
Location | United States |
Grant Cycle | 2016 |
Organization Info | |
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501c3 Organization | Flint STRIVE |
Organization Website | http://www.Flintstrive.com |
Grant Description | |
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Description | The monies we are asking are to employ part time workers ages 18-24 to service the needs of the senior citizens of the City of Flint especially with winter months coming. The baby boomers and the generation before them have been hardest hit and the majority depend on the bus to carry 20 lb cases of water. Flint has a new state of the art Farmers Market however, seniors cannot afford the luxury of fresh fruits and vegetables with a 40 percent poverty rate according to the Data Center of The United States Census Bureau . Our agency is funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and has been for 16 years . Last year we received grant monies for 2 years to employ Senior Citizens with a two year grant. This grant partnered with our local A.A.R.P who had the client base receiving subsidy for job training and we assist with full or part time long term employment from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. |
Used for | Flint STRIVE will employ youth 18-24 to distribute water and fresh fruits and vegetables that are on the list to fight toxins from the ongoing lead poisoning of the water to seniors. The candidates that will receive the water and fresh fruits and vegetables are senior citizens in Section 8 low income housing complexes and homes that are immobile. This is similar to a program STRIVE in Flint did this summer with youth 14-18 that made the news as the President and both political candidates have been here due to the third world conditions Flint is presently in. |
Benefits | Flint , Michigan has always been a manufacturing blue collar community that has contributed greatly to the world economy through General Motors and industrious workers. The monies will demonstrate how a City that has been torn apart is making a come back from lead poisoning, Legionaries Disease and a 40% poverty rate presently. This city has to increase home values again, the tax base for businesses to want to continue coming to Flint and continue to fight the contamination from lead until the pipes are laid . |