Building Senior Club Capacity in Montana
GrantID: 76973
Grant Funding Amount Low: $1,000
Deadline: Ongoing
Grant Amount High: $150,000
Summary
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Aging/Seniors grants, Community Development & Services grants, Education grants, Faith Based grants, Financial Assistance grants, Higher Education grants.
Grant Overview
Montana's senior isolation stems from its 147,000 square miles of land area and 7.4 persons per square mile average density, where 45 of 56 counties are classified as frontier. Adults 65 and older represent 19 percent of the population, yet 62 percent live in towns under 2,500 residents with no public transit and broadband speeds below 25 Mbps in 38 percent of census blocks.
Capacity constraints appear in the shortage of 1.9 geriatric social workers per 10,000 seniors and the closure of 14 rural senior centers since 2019. Winters that average 28 days below zero limit travel, while distances between Billings and Glendive exceed 220 miles. These factors produce measurable increases in reported loneliness scores on the UCLA scale among those outside the seven largest cities.
Capacity_first funding under this grant requires organizations to verify existing facility access or mobile unit routes serving at least three counties, plus letters from county commissioners confirming no competing senior programs within 50 miles. Applicants must supply baseline participation counts and staff-to-participant ratios no lower than 1:8 for group activities.
Resources cover purchase of durable goods such as tables, craft supplies, and satellite internet hardware for club sites, along with fuel reimbursements for facilitators traveling between towns. Reporting focuses on pre- and post-program loneliness inventories collected at three-month intervals. This approach aligns with Montana's context because its existing Area Agency on Aging network already operates under county-based contracts that can absorb small-scale club expansions without new state-level coordination.
Unlike Idaho applications, Montana requires evidence of delivery across counties with fewer than 3,000 total residents due to frontier county designation.
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