Community Needs
Escalating Community Needs
Aging and Disabilities
Providing older adults and people of varying abilities with the support they need to maintain independence has short-term and long-term implications for their overall health and wellbeing and facilitates prolonged contribution to the community.
Roughly 40% of 65+ households in our community live below the ALICE threshold (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed)*. The overall rate across all households is 34%.
*Includes ALICE households and those living below the federal poverty line.
26% of people living with a disability in Brown County live in poverty. The overall rate is 11%.
Confidence in the community’s ability to care for vulnerable persons (including children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities) has also dropped in the past decade from 66.5% to 54%.
By partnering with other funders, we direct dollars toward programs and services for our aging community so they can have independence — and the dignity that comes along with it. We also work to identify and highlight the disparities impacting older adults and disabled persons, so that work happening in other key areas such as housing, mental health, and transportation, will include solutions that meet their specific needs.
Making life better together
Giving to a collaborative fund allows you to be part of a collective effort to meet the community’s evolving needs. Together, we accomplish more than we can alone. Join us.
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Explore More Needs
Critical community needs include childcare and early childhood, diversity and equity, housing, mental health and well-being, and poverty and financial stability.
Escalating community needs include aging and disabilities, belonging and social connectedness, and transportation.
Additional rural community needs include alcohol and other drug use, obesity, and transportation.
Nonprofit resources
We work alongside nonprofits promoting their causes, empowering their development, and helping them grow. Whether your organization is in need of funding or other resources to support its mission, we can help you continue working to solve problems and strengthen our community.