Age-Friendly Teaneck To Continue its Community-Building Efforts in Next Two Years

​Age-Friendly Teaneck is pleased to announce that we were recently awarded a renewal grant from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation, which will fund our community-building efforts for another two years. 
We also would like to share news of our future plans, which include new partnerships with AARP New Jersey, 

Fairleigh Dickinson University, the Teaneck League of Women Voters as well as our continuing collaboration with Township government and other business, civic and faith-based organizations.
Some of our new plans for 2020 and beyond, include:

• Organizing a series of four Community Table dinners in March and April, with the help of a generous grant we were awarded from AARP New Jersey and food donations from Meals with a Mission and Kosher Meals on Wheels. These festive events will provide much-needed social engagement as well as helpful information to older adults who are increasingly isolated or homebound.
• Enhancing our Geriatric Careers Exploration Summer Internship for four Teaneck High School students by creating a more robust curriculum and working with Fairleigh Dickinson University to create a similar internship for college students.
• Partnering with the Teaneck League of Women Voters to host a community forum this spring that will educate Teaneck residents about the Township's zoning and planning processes so residents can better understand how to exercise their voices in the many decisions that are shaping the community’s future. 
• Co-sponsoring, along with Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck’s third annual Senior Health and Resource Fair.
• Participating in the planned commemoration of Teaneck 125th anniversary and continuing to support the growth of the Teaneck Historical Society, which our community project helped found.
• Working with local civic and faith-based groups to better educate Teaneck residents about the process of applying for affordable housing and supporting community organizations in developing programs to assist those who need application help.
• Continuing our work with other age-friendly communities in Bergen County to help identify and garner support for new transportation alternatives in the region.
• Enlisting new business sponsorships of our communications efforts so we can continue publication of our print newsletters and key materials such as the resource magnets generously underwritten by Five Star Premiere Residences of Teaneck. 

Please check out our website, agefriendlyteaneck.org, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to stay abreast of our many efforts to make Teaneck a great place to grow old as well as to grow up.

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