Silver Dollars

Silver Dollars giving circle members are seniors (55+ years) who love living in the communities of the St. Vrain Valley.  We encourage both giving and community involvement among older adults. We want to make a positive impact in the St. Vrain Valley by creating an interactive and fun atmosphere for older adults to discuss community issues and to help not-for-profit (NFP) organizations along the way.  Our semi-annual Request for Proposals (RFPs) ask NFP organizations that serve seniors to identify what they would do with the amount of the grant (currently $2000).  Innovative plans are appreciated.  In addition, we encourage other NFPs – especially those who traditionally serve a wider or different segment than “seniors” — to consider how they could use a Silver Dollars grant to serve seniors in ways they have not done before.  (Silver Dollars began in 2015 from modest beginnings. We were Longmont Silver Dollars for a year, during which we granted $2500 to non profit organizations within the city. We found that pooling individual donations into a single grant is a good model, but we were fulfilling only part of a mission that needed to grow to include all the communities of the St. Vrain Valley.)