Jan Warren - Meals on Wheels, Rocky Mount

Well, you touched on funding.

You mentioned two grants, but talk about how Meals on Wheels is funded.

Is it a local organization or more like a nationwide chart with chapters? How does all that work?

So we are a local organization.

There is a Meals on Wheels of America that we can join.

And it primarily provides promotional information for us.

And different things, you know, they conduct studies.

They do a lot of legislative things.

And so we join that every year.

And then there's also, which is fairly new within the organization, I would say within the last seven years, there's a North Carolina Meals on Wheels.

And

we're more active in that group.

We joined that.

But each one of us is independent.

We're a 501c3 nonprofit and have our own tax information, tax ID.

And we are funded in multiple ways.

So I would say 65% of our funding, around 60 to 65% of our funding is through those federal grants.

It's through the Older Americans Act.

So it's been very steady funding for us.

And then we get some funding from United Way, which is just so wonderful here in Rocky Mountain.

They do a great job.

And then we also have several private grants that we get that we apply for every year.

And we get money from corporations and churches.

And then we have a fundraiser.

And we only do one fundraiser a year, so we try to do a big one.

Well, you touched on funding.

You mentioned two grants, but talk about how Meals on Wheels is funded.

Is it a local organization or more like a nationwide chart with chapters? How does all that work?

So we are a local organization.

There is a Meals on Wheels of America that we can join.

And it primarily provides promotional information for us.

And different things, you know, they conduct studies.

They do a lot of legislative things.

And so we join that every year.

And then there's also, which is fairly new within the organization, I would say within the last seven years, there's a North Carolina Meals on Wheels.

And

we're more active in that group.

We joined that.

But each one of us is independent.

We're a 501c3 nonprofit and have our own tax information, tax ID.

And we are funded in multiple ways.

So I would say 65% of our funding, around 60 to 65% of our funding is through those federal grants.

It's through the Older Americans Act.

So it's been very steady funding for us.

And then we get some funding from United Way, which is just so wonderful here in Rocky Mountain.

They do a great job.

And then we also have several private grants that we get that we apply for every year.

And we get money from corporations and churches.

And then we have a fundraiser.

And we only do one fundraiser a year, so we try to do a big one.