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we are a United Way nonprofit organization we've been around for about 35 years and we help older adults age in
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place we provide inhome care and support services um connection to resources and
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guidance through the Journey of Aging so that um people can stay at home as long
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as possible they might need somebody to come in and do some cooking or cleaning or do their laundry um provide some meal
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preparation so that they don't have to stand in the kitchen for a long time as they're cooking their food navigate gives back has given us almost
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$100,000 to help the folks in our personal care program um have greater
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food stability so what navigate gives back is doing for us is enabling us to give those folks $100 a month in food
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vouchers so not only does it give them access to food but it gives them two things that are hard to come by in in the
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philanthropic space for someone who is food insecure one is Choice they're actually getting a food voucher that
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they can go to Publix and purchase what it is they want whether it's fresh
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produce um vegetables fruits meat poultry those are things that are typically hard to access when you're on
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a fixed income so it gives them greater food choice and it gives them dignity um one thing that we know as people get
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older they um are put through a lot of situations that are not very dignified and we believe very strongly that people
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deserve to age with dignity and we feel like this is one way they can have
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that