Causes: Human Services, Seniors, Supportive Housing for Older Adults

Mission: Established on christian principles, bay village of sarasota, inc. (bvsi) offers a dynamic, secure, and comprehensive residency for older adults, providing meaningful community life with continuing care. Bvsi is a church-related continuing care retirement community committed to providing the highest quality of service to residents of all faiths, with nursing and health care, recreational and spiritual opportunities. Bvsi provides services that enhance the quality of life for residents through independent retirement living, assisted living, home health, skilled nursing, and social services, while continuing to honor each person's dignity, rights, self-respect and independence. Bvsi is committed to a program of stewardship which recognizes its responsibility to use resources well. Bvsi's benevolence program ensures, to the extent feasible, that residents who have exhausted their financial resources, through no fault of their own, can remain as residents even if they become unable to pay.

Programs: Operation of a continuing care retirement community, including 285 independent living apartments, 22 assisted living apartments, and 95 health center (skilled nursing) beds in sarasota, florida. In 2017, bay village's programs served approximately 389 residents, including 327 life-care residents and 62 community residents. Also, during 2017, bay village utilized 238,000 as endowment care financial assistance to residents who could no longer afford to pay, and establish a reserve for future endowment care.