SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS

SRIV will provide help to at least 500 individuals 60 and over to age in place in our rural region where public transportation is almost non-existent and taxi, etc. costs are extremely high, through transportation, food delivery, companionship to alleviate isolation, leaf raking/snow shoveling of walks for safety. All services to assist in aging in as safe and independent way as possible.\n\nSRIV will provide support, insurance, criminal history checks, and coordination of meaningful volunteer activity for 400 or more individuals 13 years of age or older within any given 12 month period. SRIV will support 50 or more nonprofits with a myraid of community concerns being addressed such as food security, homelessness, education, community safety, health, culture and more. \n\nSRIV will train and support a team of volunteers ready to respond and staff local shelters during weather and other crisis events as determined by Emergency Managers in our area.\n\nSRIV will be a resource for those in need.

Ongoing volunteer recruitment, support, and background checks. Maintaining and ensuring a ready group of volunteers to support the southernmost 12 communities of RI's 39 total communities. \n\nEducation and outreach for the senior population in need of assistance to age in place. This includes communication through brochure information, staffed telephone access, information dissemination to medical offices, senior centers, libraries, and other public locations to educate and inform the general public of help available.\n\nContinue partnerships with 50 plus nonprofits to address the most compelling community concerns to improve quality of life in our region for all by providing skilled, ready human resources to address these needs. \n\nContinuing our outreach to educate our political and other leaders around issues facing neighbors across our county area, specifically our older citizens but also in ways our older citizens support younger citizens as well.

SRIV has continued to support an annual volunteer membership of 500 or more. \n\nSRIV keeps our expenses low through a partnership that provides our office through a 20 year lease for $20.\n\nSRIV operates a tight budget under $250,000 annually while providing at least 30,000 human resources hours with a federally designated value of over $690,000 (information provided by the Corporation for National & Community Service). \n\nSRIV constantly recruits volunteers using multiple communication channels to meet community need effectively.\n\nSRIV is always looking for ways to educate the public and we do so at the individual's level of communication using telephone, newspaper, online resources relative to senior citizens in need.\n\nSRIV's dedicated staff of 3 is also a huge factor in our success.

o Over 11,682 meals prepared by the Meals on Wheels Caterer were delivered by SRIV to 65 homebound seniors in South Kingstown and Narragansett alone!\no Over 100 additional seniors received Meals on Wheels as part of our partnerships and expansion efforts in Charlestown, Richmond/Hopkinton, Westerly, Jamestown, North Kingstown and even Foster.\no 2,640 bags of groceries (that’s 39,600 lbs. of food!) was delivered by SRIV to 55 homebound seniors once a month from two local food pantries. (SRIV transported individual seniors to 5 food pantries throughout the year).\no 3,024 hours of weekly grocery shopping assistance was provided to local seniors. \no 435 rides to healthcare provider appointments for 212 homebound seniors without transportation to help them age as healthily as possible were completed by SRIV.\no 1,288 companion visits happened for over 25 local seniors facing isolation; more than 2,500 hours were spent with our most isolated seniors.\no 614 volunteers supported