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Causes: Congregate Meals, Ethnic & Immigrant Centers, Food, Food Programs, Human Services, Immigration, Senior Centers, Seniors
Mission: Services and advocacy for Russian Americans
Target demographics: Seniors and adults with disabilities focusing on Russian speaking
Direct beneficiaries per year: 500 seniors and adults with disabilities
Geographic areas served: San Fransisco
Programs: Provide congregate dining room meals and home-delivered meals -on-wheels for seniors 60 in accordance with older american acts title iii who partially subsidizes these meals. Meals programs are in accordance with policy memorandum and direct supervision of san francisco dept of aging and adult servies office of aging. Human service agency. Additionally these programs are extended to younger disabled adults 18-59. Met and exceeded all goals in the san francisco meals program. Serving 103,000 congregate senior meals.
protection of the most holy virgin fund provides direct aid to russian orthodox churches, monasteries, schools, and orphanages in russia and diaspora. Funding is made in accordance with dept of homeland directives allowing donations and grants to readily identifiable religious institutions with large u. S. A. Counterparts. Due diligence is performed to ensure that proper records are kept and cash distributions are limited to less thank 5,000 aggregate threshold to other than religious institution meeting.
provide 10 units of low income housing to seniors and disabled adults adjacent to confregate meal site. Units are tenant paid and the building was made adequate with dept of housing and urban development and city of san francisco mayors office of housing grants