Funding and Collaborations

Ongoing Funding

• Wyoming Department of Health, Aging Division: Title III-B Support Services, C1 Congregate Meals Nutrition Program, and C2 Home Delivered Meals Nutrition Program.
• Wyoming Senior Services Board
• Medicaid Community Choices Waivers
• Shoshoni Senior Citizens Service District funding from a 1.5 mill levy on property taxes, which is voted on every four years. Because other funding has decreased, our Service District has become essential for our continued operation. We appreciate and rely on the public’s support of services for aging in our community.

Local Match Awards

• Wyoming Community Foundation: WYCF connects people who care with causes that matter to build a better Wyoming.

Local Income

• Program Income is the voluntary participant contributions for meals, transportation, and support services. Specifically, this money is from the gray donation box on our front counter for meals and the donation boxes for coffee, exercise equipment, and office services.
• Donations: From individuals, businesses, and other organizations, including the Martha Petersdorf Hospital Trust, Contango, B-2 Wyoming, and Shoshoni’s Christmas Club.
• Memorial Donations are donated in the memory of someone who has passed away. These donations are deposited into a separate account and are used for memorial service expenses and board-approved improvements to the Senior Center, rather than general operations.
• Newsletter Subscriptions are $12/year to help with costs associated with printing and mailing our newsletter.
• Shoshoni Recreation District #24 rents our basement yearlong to put on their annual Haunted House, and other Building Use fees.
• Smith’s Inspiring Donations: You can help us whenever you shop at Smith’s by linking your Smith’s Rewards Card to Shoshoni Senior Citizens Center (organization QX859).

Fundraising and Annual Events

• The Street Fair is our fundraiser in early September. We do this in the Town Plaza park across the highway from the Senior Center. We serve our popular fry bread tacos, host a variety of vendor booths, bring out the Spin to Win wheel, and enjoy live performances by our own local talent, Rhiannon.
• The Winter Craft Bazaar is our annual fundraiser in late November or early December. We fit as many vendors as we can into the community room, serve our crowd-favorite chicken fried steak, bid on silent auction items, and Rhiannon sings us Christmas songs.
• In October, we do a Bake Sale, serving hot beverages and goodies to those waiting in line for the Rec’s Haunted House. We also participate in the Trunk or Treat at the elementary school’s harvest festival.
• The Senior Center and First Baptist Church host a Friendship Dinner for Journey of Hope in June. This is a group of young men bicycling across the country for disability awareness.

Partners and Collaborations

• We are a Partner of the Food Bank of Wyoming. They help our budget go further, and we help give those in our community access to needed food and necessities. We usually receive the Food Bank delivery on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Our purchasing power with the Food Bank increased significantly recently thanks to a WCDA grant.

• Wyoming Senior Services Association: The director of the Shoshoni Senior Center is a member of WSSA.

• Grand Altitude Federal Credit Union pays for senior meals once a month on “Credit Union Day”.

• Big Horn Water provides water at the Senior Center.

• Cent$ible Nutrition shares information, recipes, and sometimes food with us to distribute to our patrons.

Specific Funding Awards

• Rocky Mountain Power Foundation for specific projects, including cleaning supplies during the pandemic, replacing office computers, building drainage improvements, upgrading presentation equipment, emergency supplies and equipment, replacing chairs in the community room, and towards our daily soup (a patron favorite!).

• Wyoming Hunger Initiative awarded us Infrastructure Grants so that we could purchase kitchen equipment and fund our garden, additional grocery money, and donations of meat.

• We received money towards our roof replacement from Daniels Fund and Fremont County.