In what is becoming a timely strategy—see previous post—Sacramento County moves another of its programs to a nonprofit, as reported by the Sacramento Bee.
An excerpt.
“A longtime provider of a range of programs for Sacramento's elderly population, the nonprofit Asian Community Center takes over sponsorship and operation of Sacramento County's 35-year-old senior nutrition program on July 1.
“Meals on Wheels provides lunches for 1,400 older adults.
"Our big hope is that in August, most of our consumers will say, 'What change?' " said Donna Yee, ACC's chief operating officer. "Our intent is to serve all the seniors being served now and to do some outreach.
"There's more capacity in the program to serve more seniors in congregant sites as well as at home."
“Under its new stewardship, a separate nonprofit called Meals on Wheels by ACC, the nutrition program will continue delivering boxes of frozen meals each week to most of its participants, said Yee.
“The county switched to weekly frozen five-packs from daily hot lunches late last year in an effort to trim costs and save the program, which faced elimination because of massive budget cuts.
“About 150 frail seniors will continue receiving hot meals daily, Yee said, and will thus receive daily monitoring by program volunteers and staff.”
About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.