More Than Shelter For Seniors Wins Sage Award

More Than Shelter For Seniors^® (MTSFS^®) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation whose mission is to create and provide life enhancing intellectual amenities for low- and moderate-income seniors. MTSFS focuses on activities that stimulate the mind, body, and spirit, helping more than 2,000 low-and moderate-income seniors annually in 13 communities lead healthy and independent lives in the following cities: Ontario, Anaheim, Duarte, Pomona, North Hollywood, Whittier, Azusa, Long Beach and Norwalk.

Century Housing, one of California's largest affordable housing lenders, has helped create more than 11,000 units of quality affordable housing in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Century granted $500,000 of loan interest on three acquisition and rehabilitation loans to fund the More Than Shelter For Seniors on-site program.

To contribute to the More Than Shelter Fund, which supports all of Century’s More Than Shelter programs, such as More Than Shelter For Seniors, please visit www.morethanshelterfund.org.

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*PRESS RELEASE* November 19, 2003
Contact:	Robbie McPherson Media Relations Officer 310.642.2042 Fax: 310.258-0701 rmcpherson@centuryhousing.org
More Than Shelter For Seniors^® Wins SAGE Award for “Program of the Year”
Costa Mesa, CA — More Than Shelter For Seniors^® (MTSFS^®) was named Program of the Year by the Building Industry Association's Seniors Housing Council at the Senior Achievement and General Excellence (SAGE) Awards dinner November 12. “This is a great honor, to be recognized for our programs by the Seniors Housing Council,” said Tim Carpenter, Executive Director of MTSFS, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create and provide life enhancing intellectual amenities for low- and moderate-income seniors. “What differentiates our programs from others is our ability to engage people by offering classes that not only teach skills, but require them to use them. For example, rather than [just] teaching a senior how to write a screenplay in our writing classes, they write one and a film is made from it—the best films are screened at the ‘We’re Still Here Revue’ each year. We use our events as semester-culminating motivators to get people to learn skills and apply them,” he said. The Seniors Housing Council, an official council of the Building Industry Association of Southern California, presents the SAGE Award annually to an executive, community, or program that has made innovative, extraordinary contributions to the seniors’ housing industry, and that best demonstrates compassion and commitment to the senior population of Southern California.
More Than Shelter For Seniors^® (MTSFS^®) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation whose mission is to create and provide life enhancing intellectual amenities for low- and moderate-income seniors. MTSFS focuses on activities that stimulate the mind, body, and spirit, helping more than 2,000 low-and moderate-income seniors annually in 13 communities lead healthy and independent lives in the following cities: Ontario, Anaheim, Duarte, Pomona, North Hollywood, Whittier, Azusa, Long Beach and Norwalk. Century Housing, one of California's largest affordable housing lenders, has helped create more than 11,000 units of quality affordable housing in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Century granted $500,000 of loan interest on three acquisition and rehabilitation loans to fund the More Than Shelter For Seniors on-site program. To contribute to the More Than Shelter Fund, which supports all of Century’s More Than Shelter programs, such as More Than Shelter For Seniors, please visit www.morethanshelterfund.org. # # #

More Than Shelter For Seniors® Wins SAGE Award for “Program of the Year”

More Than Shelter For Seniors^® Wins SAGE Award for “Program of the Year”