Capital City Village

I have been a volunteer with CCV for a few years. Started as a driver taking seniors to their doctor appointments. I enjoyed every single visit with them. Such lovely, caring folks. For the past 6 mos I have been helping a senior clean out her home of 35 years. We meet for a few hours every week. This is truly the highlight of my week!! We have such great conversations, she takes walks down memory lane and I get to come along - all while we are cleaning out her home.
The CCV annual fundraiser has become a favorite of mine. The more folks I meet the more this non-profit means to me. Everyone is so caring, FUN and full of life :) The 2nd cup gathering is also very lovely. Just love being a volunteer. Thank you CCV for being so rewarding while we help the seniors.

“Founding member … realized the importance of community in an aging environment. CCV provides that connection - whether volunteering, joining a committee or participating in activities. Meeting amazing members & helping others is so rewarding!”

This is a very supportive community that links people needing help to the help they need. Mostly, it's getting folks to help out with lawn care, shopping, trips to doctors, etc. that are needed to help older people stay safely at home. Great organization!

I have been a member of Capital City Village since 2019. I joined with my husband Dan, who died this past May. I cannot express how grateful I feel to the CCV volunteers who supported us throughout my husband's declining health and eventual death.

Volunteers came to the house to tell us about resources we could rely on during this time. Other volunteers have come on a regular basis to perform household tasks such as replacing AC filters and changing light bulbs. Dan was given transportation for physical therapy sessions. Another volunteer helped to transport paintings from the house to Dan's room when he had to go into Memory Care. After his death, CCV arranged for his hospital bed and other items to be removed from his room.

I have been given personal tutorials for my Apple Watch and for using Alexis and Siri, and a complex audio cabinet was assembled by a CCV volunteer.

I have especially appreciated CCV's social activities, such as lectures, lunches, and coffee gatherings.
I cannot imagine life without Capital City Village these past few years.

CCV is such an amazing organization. It connects older adults to each other, to volunteers, and to top-notch services in the community, all to make it possible to age well and in place. Watching these connections happen is so beautiful! I am really grateful for the people I have met through CCV.

My favorite part of volunteering for CCV is interacting with so many wonderful people from all walks of life. As someone who recently relocated to Austin, my association width CCV has helped me learn so much about the city in addition to making many new friends. Each experience enriches my life in ways I never imagined!

Hardly a day goes by that CCV is not on my gratitude list! Aging in place, as an octogenarian whose driving has been restricted and whose budget is limited, can get a bit complicated. The service of getting me to and from medical (mostly) appointments has been crucial. Because I most often need a “go with” in addition to a drop off and pickup, Village Volunteers have been especially responsive. They provide a necessary service providing my rides, but that service doesn’t stop with necessity. The volunteers that I have met through CCV have enriched my life in a myriad of ways. I feel that I have forged new and valuable friendships with interesting and caring people, relationships that I hope are long lasting. When preparing for a medical appointment, I not only feel that my practical needs are being met, I also look forward to sharing time with such kind and interesting people. We laugh a lot!"

I am 84 and no longer driving. I cannot find workers for random, small jobs. The constant stress of looking for rides and wrangling repairs and upkeep on my home was wearing. Yet I had a passionate desire to remain in my home and die in the bed where my husband died, but I want to do so without exhausting my loved ones. When my daughter discovered Capital City Village, I had hope!
Responsive, flexible, creative, caring, expert, talented, generous—over the years of my membership in Capital City Village, the remarkable volunteers I have been privileged to benefit from have epitomized these characteristics and qualities. All services are delivered with good cheer and expertise! I am grateful!!!

As we, the Boomer population, grow in Austin and across the country, it’s wonderful to have this organization to bring us help when it’s needed, provide interesting events to nurture friendships, and allow us to age gracefully in our homes as long as it’s possible.

I have volunteered as a driver for CCV for about ten years. Helping people age well at home has brought me great pleasure. These CCV members are modeling lives that I want to live when I get older, and I'm not young any more.

I am a volunteer and have met some great people. Love this concept so much that I am trying to start one up in my summer residence.

CCV is great. I can always get a volunteer to help with small jobs around the house and really enjoy the social activities provided. A good organization devoted to seniors!

I have been volunteering with Capital City Village (CCV) for over 10 years now. CCV offers Austin seniors a vital option between the choices of living at home, alone and isolated, and moving into an independent or assisted living facility like Longhorn Village or Querencia. CCV provides services which assist members to enjoy quality living in their own home but still be in touch with and part of a larger community. Members may call on CCV volunteers for rides to important meetings or events, help with at-home jobs they can no longer handle on their own, daily check-up calls if you want them and a wide range of enjoyable social events throughout the year. Given the outrageous cost of assisted living facilities, CCV fills a vital niche for Austin seniors who want to live at home as long as they can.

I have volunteered with this nonprofit for several years, and I have seen that they do so much to enable people to live in their own places who otherwise might not be able to do so. They provide community for their members, and are always there to help in any way they can.

A great way to improve your life as a senior. You make new friends, share experiences and have valuable services available to you when you need them.

CCV helps seniors in many different ways: transportation, programs, and important contacts that help reduce isolation. During COVID they weer invaluable and now again with more contact among members possible

Capital City Village has brought together members of the Austin community to provide support, social activities and education for Austin's older adults. The social activities and transportation are key to CCV's members and allow for unexected friendships to develop between volunteers and members.

CCV has helped our family immensely. Without the rides CCV provides and the friendships developed through those rides, our family member would be isolated and lacking social interactions. CCV is a blessing to us!

Capital City Village provides such a valuable service for those who would otherwise be homebound.

Capital City Village volunteers have huge hearts, even for those of us who are not cute and cuddly any more! We still have plenty of spark though!

I love CCV and making new friends and knowing someone will help me or tell me my options. They are the kindest, most caring volunteers. Joining has been the best thing I have ever done!

This is a great organization for providing social interaction as well as providing much needed help for its members to enable them to stay in their homes as long as possible.

Capitol City Village has provided me with two rides a week to see my Mom, who lives in a nursing home. Every volunteer and employee of the Village has been pleasant and helpful.
It has been a wonderful experience to be a client and to meet these interesting care givers.

Capital City Village does an excellent job helping to keep Seniors in their own homes by providing rides, social groups, and interesting conversations.

CCV is a wonderful non-profit that is dedicated to seniors. Our goal is to help elderly people stay in their homes as long as possible. We offer great social programs such as coffee breaks, speakers on local issues, and national issues. We offer free rides for those who can't drive any more. We offer free repairs for small household projects. We have volunteers to help them with technology. All in all, it is a great family culture.

Great staff always willing to help! Efforts to help seniors from "isolation" are paramount.

Every non profit has its culture. A top notch non profit serving persons wanting to age in place needs an exceptional culture of welcome, service, engagement & growth. Capital City Village meets the criteria for exceptional, in my book. I worked in community relations & with volunteers long term care for the state of Texas. I have friends in retirement communities, and many who want to stay independent. CCV deserves its high regard. Its constituency is diverse demographically, geographically, and economically. Effective leadership & willing member volunteers speaks volumes for it success, along with the diverse programs wonderful in person, and now well adapted to virtual.
My monthly highlight is participating in CCV Poetry program where men & women members share their poems and meaningful conversations about their poems reflecting life changing in themselves and around them. The intimacy and insights are treasured by each of us.

I've been a volunteer for Capital City Village for many, many years and have enjoyed helping the members with their needs. In addition to providing valuable services for the members, It makes me feel good!

This is an excellent organization that makes it possible for senior citizens to maintain their independence. I am new to Capital City Village, and because of Covid have not had the opportunity to participate in many activities, but I am very happy to have joined and hope to become more active as the pandemic goes away.

CCV keeps me connected and involved through interest groups and activities. Staff and volunteers solve my problems from tech issues to gutter cleaning.

We have been members for only a few months, and Cap City Village has been there for us twice. Response time is very fast.

I am a volunteer with this wonderful group. The people are welcoming, kind, and fun! I highly recommend CCV. You are bound to make friends, have laughs, learn something, and feel part of what makes it great.

A wonderful organization providing all the benefits of being in community (both in person, and virtually) with fellow sojourners as we age....dispelling myths about aging and supporting us all as we find interesting and rejuvenating ways to age.....all while we enjoy the luxury of aging in our own homes!

This nonprofit gives us a feeling of security as we age in place. Currently we are healthy and able but the time might arrive when we need support to remain at home in our house.
Currently, we are taking advantage of the social programs provided by the organization.

We want to age in our own own home, as long as possible. With Capital Village, we have received every volunteer service and vetted provider service we have requested. The real benefit has been wonderful medical and educational programs and knowing some amazing Austin neighbors who we never would have met otherwise. We have met and become friends with our 97 year old neighbor who is a WWII Veteran and an amazing CCV member who is 101 years old and had a fascinating life.
Capital City Village is unique in Austin, as a non-profit organization which is run with ideas and volunteerism from the members, with only 3 professional staff.

Even with the imposed isolation of Covid 19, Capital City Village has kept its members connected with imaginative programs, regular coffee and happy hour gatherings, mindfulness and book club meetings, and special projects. We're creative and flexible. Our volunteers help others with the skills they need to connect virtually. NO ONE is left behind. CCV rocks. We even held a fundraising "Un-Golf Tournament" that was successful!

I was going to drive myself to a Dr. appt. with a Uti and mentioned it to a friend at CCV and she said not to drive myself, as it could affect my vision and other things , making it a danger to myself and others..She got me a driver and he was wonderful thru about 4 hours of waiting. I really love CCV..I feel like they really care!!

I have only begun as as volunteer, so I cannot speak from personal experience. However, I have been very impressed with all of the things that this nonprofit is doing to help seniors stay in their homes. I believe I will really enjoy volunteering in some of the many ways that are available.

Carol Brady

In the short time I've been involved with Capital City Village, I've found it to be filled with active, involved people. The programs I've attended have been both varied and timely. I thought that the attorney who discussed immigration law did an outstanding job of making such a complex topic understandable.

I have made good friends through CCV that I would not otherwise have met. Driving seniors has added a wonderful dimension to my life.

My wife and I learned about CCV when we attended a friend's Holiday Party one year. His neighbors were founders for the Austin chapter and we had a discussion about supporting nonprofits and they shared information with us about CCV. At a time when the social safety net from the government is not something that can be depended upon, it is refreshing to find that neighbors within the community can step forward and assist in the mission for this organization. The presence of CCV in our community is an asset that benefits those who are helped as well as those who volunteer on many levels. We are proud to be members and intend to continue to support CCV in any way possible going forward.

The CCC village has helped me so much. I recently broke both my arms and they provided me with rides and even a n electronic recliner. But even more, the social activities and the opportunities to make new friends has been so generous.

We joined CCV last year when my husband was diagnosed with bone cancer and are so glad we did. Tommi and Mart came to our house recently when I asked for a social worker. They gave us great advice on things we could do to be able to stay in our house and for my husband to be OK when I’m not there. We like everyone we have met in the organization and have found the volunteers to be extremely helpful.

Lived in Austin 50 years. Career in media. Have no family in town. Attended Capital City Village (CCV) open house. Learned about group & read New York Times article. Joined on spot. Enjoy new friendships, activities, volunteering & services. Make “unlikely
friendships” with people from different parts of country/neighborhoods/backgrounds/experiences/ interests/careers.
Expended my horizons.

I was a recent widow when my friends who were founders of CCV reached out to me. They encouraged me to participate in the social activities. This helped me so much. I wasn’t so socially isolated as I had been before this.

I am long time member, have found stimulation of programs, enjoyment of volunteering and being a driver, , and improbable friendships to be major reasons I think CCV is time and energy well spent. Programs have included balance and fall prevention to immigration challenges.

I first became acquainted with Capital City Village about three years ago when a good friend experienced serious medical issues. Those issues led to her being admitted to a skilled nursing facility where she quickly became a full-time resident. At the time, she was an active CCV member and, because I live in the DFW metroplex, I was most fortunate to be able to rely on CCV volunteers for service referrals of various kinds, numerous and regular medical appointments and, possibly most importantly, advice, suggestions, and understanding. Volunteers have also regularly visited her in the nursing home since she was first admitted.
The care, compassion, and helpfulness shown by everyone at CCV who has helped my friend (and me!) these past three years are beyond match. The organization is well-managed and professionally structured, and the CCV communication process (especially with the Volunteer Coordinator) has been most reliable and helpful. I also believe that their intern program is extremely beneficial to the person in need, the CCV organization itself and, of course, the intern working toward a graduate degree. I have told CCV volunteers and others that, without their help these past years, this process would have been impossible for me. I am blessed to be associated with Capital City Village.

Jim Hester

Capital City Village (CCV) is a kind of cooperative for seniors — seniors helping seniors remain in our homes as we age. Yes, we are a membership organization, yet we turn no one away for lack of funds. In fact, we have two programs to help members directory. One subsidizes dues, and the other provides direct help to members with special needs.

Our volunteers drive members to and from necessary appointments and to our many social gatherings. We celebrate ourselves with a monthly happy hour, a coffee gathering, and with frequent social gatherings and special interest groups. Our members join together for cards or dominoes, book clubs, and mindfulness study.

We’re active. We’re readying for our fourth annual golf tournament.

During the year we have programs on seniors’ health, finances, and we invite locally interesting people to gather for an informal, intimate afternoon of conversation. It’s all about social engagement and learning.

I joined CCV shortly after my husband died and benefited from a widow support group. Gradually I participated in some of the many social activities, meeting new friends as well as ones I have known from other places. The monthly domino gathering in a couple's home gives me laughter and hopefully keeps my brain active! I usually go to the monthly movie group since it is more fun than sitting by yourself. When I sold my home to move to a duplex with no yard maintenance, volunteers starting showing up or calling to help me pack, moved all my many heavy pot plants, hung pictures, shades, etc. that I couldn't reach without a ladder. A variety of activities are offered every month, many that have programs on health and other ways to continue to stay involved and active while remaining independent in my own residence. Car pools are available if needed and for those who don't drive, volunteers will take them not only to doctor appts. but just to go shopping or to the beauty shop.