Look what your donations have done!

So far we have…

• Helped jump-start the Library’s expansion and renovation, designed to ensure senior-friendly areas and programs with a gift of $75,000

• Bought the Silver Streak, a 20-passenger bus, to transport seniors

• Paid for the certification and CDL licensing of a driver for the Silver Streak

• Committed $10,000 for the purchase of video magnifier units for use in seniors’ homes, at the Senior Center and at the Library

• Awarded a $25,000 grant to the Shelter Island Historical Society for its ‘Living History” program to record, present and permanently archive interviews with Island seniors 

• Pledged $4,000 for materials to facilitate the building of access ramps at seniors homes, at no cost to the recipients

• Leased medical-alert systems to seniors who need them to ensure peace of mind

• Provided benches and materials for a picnic table at the Lions pavilion at Wades Beach

• Contributed to the remodeling of the Wades Beach bathhouse to store a device used to assist in transporting disabled persons in and out of the water 

• Subsidized Community Thanksgiving and St. Mary’s Christmas dinners, including home-delivered meals to seniors

  Your donations have done all this and so much more, including meals and snacks for personnel during the COVID vaccinations; tickets and transportation to the the Historical Society’s summer musicals and high school musicals and paying for entertainment at senior luncheons at our Community Center.

  Here’s an article about SCF in the Shelter Island Reporter written by Charity Robey:

  https://shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com/2024/02/16/what-is-the-shelter-island-senior-foundation-explaining-an-essential-island-group/