Scale = Greater Impact

Older Californians represent a powerful demographic.

As the baby boomers who defined the 60s and 70s are now entering their 60s and 70s, they are once again leading the change in societal attitudes about aging. Villages are the hyper-local manifestation of this change. However, only Village Movement California can leverage their numbers and energies to partner with the statewide health care, philanthropic and social service organizations working to change the experience of aging.

Many statewide health networks, pharmaceutical companies, foundations, service organizations and others want to find ways to improve health and wellness as we age. But they need scale to make an impact and don’t have capacity to work with individual villages. By uniting, villages across the state can aggregate their membership with that of all other villages, and partners have a single source to access a critical mass of aging Californians. It’s a win-win proposition: village members statewide have increased services to choose from, and village partners can serve greater numbers through the village network.

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ChaiVillageLA

ChaiVillageLA is the first synagogue-based village in the country, a bold partnership of two cutting-edge Reform synagogues — Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills and Temple Isaiah — to challenge their congregants to rethink their paradigms of aging and use their accumulated experience, talents, wisdom and creativity to build a community of mutual respect, support, caring and concern. In ChaiVillageLA there is no distinction between members and volunteers. Rather, all members are expected to contribute approximately four hours per month to the health and vitality of the community. Service can be in a variety of forms, including serving on a committee, working in the office, organizing an interest group or program, or providing assistance to a fellow member.