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The New York Foundation for Eldercare (formerly the Margaret Tietz Foundation) is dedicated to helping seniors enjoy healthier, safer, more productive and dignified lives, at every stage of a longer life.

The Foundation supports programs that help those who are beset by health challenges or frailty, whether living in institutions or at home, so as to help make each day of their lives dignified and comfortable. The Foundation also develops programs focused on enhancing community awareness and education related to issues affecting older New Yorkers. And, it continues its longstanding focus on the care and well being of Holocaust survivors.

NYFE MAKES $50,000 IN EMERGENCY GRANTS

TO
HELP NYC SENIORS GET COVID-19 VACCINE APPOINTMENTS   

On behalf of the New York Foundation for Eldercare (NYFE), we want to say first that we hope you, your loved ones, and your colleagues are – and continue to remain – safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the early months of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, NYFE made over $100,000 in emergency funding available to help NYC facilities and seniors with PPE costs, nutritional support and social isolation.

While COVID-19 vaccines have now arrived, there are numerous reports that seniors are having difficulty navigating the vaccine appointment process, and in getting transportation to and from vaccine sites. NYFE has now reached out to our program grantees to see how we can help them to expand their programs to assist their senior clients get vaccinated.

As a result, we are pleased to announce that NYFE has just made $50,000 in emergency grants available to five of our grantees so they can expand programs to secure vaccine appointments for seniors and arrange for transportation to and from vaccination sites. Those grantees are:

  • Greenwich House (Greenwich Village)

  • Health Advocates for Older People (Midtown Manhattan)

  • Kings Bay YM-YWHA (Brooklyn)

  • LiLY (Lifeforce in Later Years) (West Harlem and Morningside Heights)

  • WAW (Women for Afghan Women) (Queens)

As Covid-19 vaccination efforts intensify in the coming months, NYFE will seek out additional opportunities to support vaccine outreach and education for NYC seniors.

If you want to contribute to our efforts please donate here:

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