Senior Meals Program Celebrates GivingTuesday on November 28

EUGENE, Ore. — LCOG Senior & Disability Services is celebrating GivingTuesday by joining millions around the world participating in the global generosity movement on November 28, 2023. 

 LCOG Senior & Disability Services has joined GivingTuesday to support the Senior Meals Program which serves an average of 129,000 hot nutrition meals to 1,200 older Lane County neighbors every year. Some people receive Meals on Wheels delivered to their home and others join us at one of our ten Café 60 locations. Both Café 60 and Meals on Wheels help our older neighbors face the challenges of aging, isolation, and lost mobility, allowing them to stay in the communities where they have established roots and feel more vibrant as their lives progress. Most of our participants live on low, fixed incomes but loneliness, isolation, and the inability to prepare balanced meals cross economic and social boundaries.

 “Our Senior Meals Program relies on the generous donors in our community to bridge the gap between available funding and the cost of serving meals to our older neighbors. Any donations and gifts directly impact our ongoing ability to provide this essential service.” – Leah Chisholm, Older Americans Act Program Manager at LCOG Senior & Disability Services.

We invite community members to make a tax-deductible contribution to the Senior Meals Program to help ensure that nourishing meals can be served to our older neighbors who need them.

• $10 supplements a senior’s own meal contribution
• $50 provides one week of meals to a senior
• $100 provides two weeks of meals to a senior
• $250 provides one month of meals to a senior
• $1,500 feeds a senior for six months
• $3,000 feeds a senior for an entire year!

Donations are accepted online and by mail. More information at https://www.lcog.org/sdslane/page/donate-senior-meals-program.

 Giving Tuesday donation link: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E10096&id=5

 You can also purchase and donate items from our Amazon Wish List at https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1NHZFNE6N43VJ/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex

 About Senior & Disability Services

Senior & Disability Services, a division of Lane Council of Governments, provides services, information, and assistance to Lane County’s older adult population, adults with physical disabilities, and their caregivers. In Fiscal Year 2023, its Senior Meals Program served 176,006 meals to 1,759 participants. Learn more at https://www.lcog.org/sdslane.

About GivingTuesday 

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past eleven years, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. Whether it’s making someone smile, helping a neighbor or stranger out, showing up for an issue or people we care about, or giving some of what we have to those who need our help, every act of generosity counts and everyone has something to give. GivingTuesday strives to build a world in which the catalytic power of generosity is at the heart of the society we build together, unlocking dignity, opportunity, and equity around the globe. 

Laura Campbell

Public Information Officer

Lane Council of Governments | 859 Willamette Street, Suite 500 | Eugene, OR 97401

Ph: 541-682-4006 | F: 541-682-4099

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