Human Service Resource and Fundraising Assistance
LOCATION
SCHEDULE OPTIONS
Semester availability
SpringService hours
AfternoonWeekend
Available days/hours
Approximately 5 - 10 hours per week mainly M-F with a few Saturday Mornings
Additional hours as needed to complete projects and support information gathering and evaluations.
REQUIRED/DESIRED SKILLS
Good people skills, patience, ability to speak to older individuals with respect and dignity, attention to detail.
Design and develop a successful interview program to gather the information needed by the foundation to evaluate and fulfill the request of our senior clients. Intern should have the ability to input the information into a database.
Someone who can interact with individuals of all levels seniors, board members, social workers and politicians to gain confidence and support of the foundation.
CATEGORIES
AdultsElderly
Fundraising
Marketing
COMMUNITY PARTNER
Foundation for Sustainable Senior Centers
ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP
Duties
The Foundation for Sustainable Senior Centers is looking for an individual who is people friendly to interview and assist in the assessment and identification of senior needs in the community. This individual must be a patient people person with attention to detail. The intern we select will be required to interview seniors at both the Granite Reef and Via Linda Senior Centers in Scottsdale AZ work in direct contact with area social workers to determine the need of the seniors. They will also work with adult children of seniors living in our community. This information will be used to provide the foundation with valuable information to meet the needs of seniors in the community with the funding needed to maintain productive and independent lives.
In addition, we are looking for an individual who can assist the foundation in marketing and fundrasing efforts. They will work directly with the board of directors to identify effective opportunities for fundrasing.
Population served
The Foundation for Sustainable Senior Centers will serve seniors in the Scottsdale community. Our Services will be offered to adult children of seniors whose elderly parents live in the community we serve.
Community need/impact
Every day in our comunity, seniors face impossible decisions - food or medicine. One in five seniors reports having to skip medication or not fill a prescription at all du to the high cost. Furthermore, according to the government analysis obtained by the National Council on Aging, one in six older Americans lives below the federal poverty line. At 15% THE PROPORTION OF SENIORS LIVING IN POVERTY IS ALSO HIGHER THAN THE PROPORTION OF ALL Americans in poverty. Access to affordable, appropriate, and nutritious food and medicine is critical to helping low-income older Aamericans maintain good health and independence during the second half of their llives. The Foundation for Sustainable Senior Centers is the result of political factors behind budget cuts on city and state public programs.
The information the student gathers will assist the Foundation for Sustainable Senors Centers to"bridge the gape for seniors" in our community in need of financial assistance to maintain their life style, improve their daily living, eliminate the need to choose between food and medicine. It will serve as a resource to adult children of seniors living in our community to help them provide these sames services to their parents from miles away. It will provide seniors in our community with invaluable resources that have been taken away from them.
