The Regional Kitchen for Independent Living:
A Project of REAL Services
Serving the elderly and disabled now – and into the future
Thank you for your Generous Contribution:
1st Source Foundation
Allegiant Air
Braveheart Fund of the Community Foundation of
St. Joseph County
The Carmichael Foundation
The Carris Foundation
Florence V. Carroll Charitable Trust
The City of Mishawaka
The City of South Bend
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
The Cressy Family Foundation
The Garcia Family Foundation
The Kenneth and Lela Harkless Foundation
The Matthew Frank Moore Foundation
Robert and Clara Milton Charitable Trust
Milton Fund of the Community Foundation
Pfeifer, Morgan & Stesiak
Pfeil Pfund of the Community Foundation
The Schurz Communications Foundation
St. Joseph Regional Medical Foundation
Wal-Mart Foundation
REAL Services provides an array of critical services to give older adults the choice and ability to stay in their homes. As a part of this responsibility, REAL Services provides a hot nutritious meal to older people once a day, five days a week, through programs such as Meals on Wheels and the Nutrition Program. Last year the program prepared and delivered 235,000 meals and served 4,400 elderly and disabled Hoosiers in five counties of northern Indiana.
The Meals Program has moved 13 times over the years. Moving so often has proven to be inefficient, expensive, and discouraging to our volunteers. In 2007, the REAL Board of Directors decided to purchase a building near its current structure at 1151 S. Michigan, South Bend, for a more permanent and efficient operation of its Meals Programs. The Board also authorized a fund raising campaign to pay for the building purchase and renovation.
The cost of the total project is approximately $1.3 million. We began our campaign on February 1, 2008. Many donors make a major gift pledged over a number of years, usually 3 to 5 years.
You can be a part of making this project a reality - Donate to the Kitchen Campaign!