Retirement Housing Foundation

Retirement Housing’s Project H.A.N.D.S. Continues to Reach Out for Others

By Barb Powell | August 30, 2018

If you glance into the room at Pilgrim Tower North in Pasadena, Calif., you will see Robert Semple quietly bending over his work. In his loving hands, the shape, and then gentle face, of a teddy bear takes shape. Semple is one of almost 1,400 residents in Retirement Housing Foundation communities across the country who…

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UCC Missouri Mid-South Conference, CHHSM Ministries Partnership Works to Create Just World for All

By Barb Powell | July 31, 2018

Donna Smith-Pupillo, executive director of Deaconess Nurse Ministry in St. Louis, sees little difference when talking about her work and that of Deaconess’ partner, the United Church of Christ’s regional Missouri Mid-South Conference. “We partner with the conference because we are a part of the conference,” Smith-Pupillo says. “We are not a separate entity, but…

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Nollau Institute Participants Find Perspectives Changed Through Classmates

By Barb Powell | June 8, 2018

With the first of three retreats completed, CHHSM’s 2018-2019 Nollau Institute participants are well on their way to discerning what servant leadership means to them in their lives and careers. Already, this year’s class has come away with new insights and several surprises. For Linda Dailey, executive director of United Church Homes’ Glenwood Retirement Community…

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‘In Their Own Words’ — a Labor of Love for UCC’s Retirement Housing Foundation that Keeps Giving

By Barb Powell | June 6, 2018

“I now have a home, not just an apartment.” That phrase sums up Frankie Corrella’s experience at Anciano Tower, a UCC Retirement Housing Foundation community in Montrose, Colo. Corrella’s reflections comprise one of many offered by residents, volunteers and staff from RHF communities across the country in the publication In Their Own Words. Though published…

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‘Hotel of the Stars’ Finds New Purpose as United Church of Christ Affordable Housing Community

By Barb Powell | May 10, 2018

It’s not every day that residents of an older adult community can say they live in a building once frequented by the rich and famous. But then, LaFontaine Center in Huntington, Ind., isn’t your everyday place. Built in 1925, the former LaFontaine Hotel was a hot destination spot for movie stars and jet set clientele,…

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Despite Obstacles, UCC’s Retirement Housing Foundation Makes Green Affordable Housing a Priority

By Barb Powell | May 1, 2018

The United Church of Christ’s Retirement Housing Foundation, based in Long Beach, Calif., takes seriously its dual commitments to affordable housing and being good stewards of creation. Its Sonata at Riverpark is just one example of RHF’s ministry at work. Opened in 2016, Sonata at Riverpark is a 52-unit, tax credit community for low-income families…

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‘Wrappers’ Send Christmas Joy with Love

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | January 3, 2018

It took a lot of paper and miles of tape, but some 900 gifts were added to Santa’s sleigh this year, thanks to the United Church of Christ’s Retirement Housing Foundation. Resident volunteers at at RHF’s Bixby Knolls Towers, a multi-level retirement community in Long Beach, Calif., and Klein Manor in Los Alamitos, Calif., along…

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UCC Servant Leadership Explored through CHHSM’s Nollau To You and Diakonal Minister Retreat

By Barb Powell | December 11, 2017

The UCC Council for Health and Human Service Ministries held two servant leadership events during the first week of December. Both were part of its ongoing work to teach and nurture servant leaders in its member ministries. The first-ever “reunion retreat” of UCC Diakonal Ministers took place Dec. 5 and 6 at the Franciscan Renewal…

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United Church of Christ’s Retirement Housing Foundation in LeadingAge/Ziegler Top 10 Nonprofit Senior Living Providers

By CHHSM Staff | December 5, 2017
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For 14 consecutive years, LeadingAge and Ziegler have partnered to produce the LeadingAge Ziegler 150 (“LZ 150”) publication, which details the largest 150 not-for-profit multi-site senior living providers in the country. The 2017 report quantifies the largest 150 not-for-profit multi-site senior living providers in the country. The LZ 150 ranks organizations according to the overall…

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United Church of Christ’s Retirement Housing Foundation Sends More than $100,000 to Disaster Ministries for Hurricane Relief

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | November 4, 2017
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Retirement Housing Foundation (RHF) has sent a check for $106,652.93 to United Church of Christ’s Disaster Ministries in response to this year’s devastating hurricane activity. As previously announced, RHF’s Board of Directors agreed to partner with the United Church of Christ’s Emergency USA Fund for Hurricane Harvey Relief, a special fund designated to specifically help…

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