Silver Planet Awarded $10,000 Rose Foundation Grant to Spur Boomer Involvement
Denver, CO – January 2, 2009. Silver Planet, www.silverplanet.com, a content and resource-rich website designed to “inform, inspire, and interact” with the 55+ generation as they embrace positive aging, has been awarded a $10,000 matching grant from Rose Community Foundation as part of its Boomers Leading Change initiative. Through the grant, Silver Planet will leverage its online expertise in supporting the Foundation’s initiative to expand opportunities for those age 55+ in work, service, and learning and thereby strengthen and support their communities.
Silver Planet will use these funds to: 1) link the www.silverplanet.com web site to other web sites that serve the 55+ age group, and 2) to pilot at least three Silver Planet Boomer Network Groups, led by volunteer Silver Ambassadors, in the seven-county Rose Community Foundation Greater Denver service area. The Network Groups will focus on activities of interest to boomers and seniors, provide the participants with local and online resources, and aim to "inform, inspire, and interact" as they become part of the national Silver Planet online community.
About Silver Planet
Silver Planet, LLC is a private Colorado Springs-based company founded in 2007 by 74-year old Florence Klein, a local entrepreneur who developed the site to provide a trusted website to serve the everyday needs of the 55+ community. This online community encourages seniors and baby boomers to adopt the concept of Silver Planet aging---a lifestyle that focuses on living active, fulfilled, informed, and inspiring lives.
About Rose Community Foundation
Rose Community Foundation makes grants to organizations and institutions serving the seven-county Greater Denver community in the areas of Aging, Child and Family Development, Education, Health, and Jewish Life. “These grants are a way for Rose Community Foundation to stimulate creative thinking about ways to engage the baby boom generation in addressing social and economic needs in our community,” said Sheila Bugdanowitz, president and CEO.
Contact
Dr. Elinor Greenberg
Project Director
303-771-3560
ellie.greenberg@ucdenver.edu
