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2001---Beginning in 2001 SAGE/Milwaukee became an official provider of services to The Milwaukee County Department on Aging and received $10,000 to provide services to older LGBT persons in the county during the year. These funds enabled us to continue our outreach advertising program, hire and pay a part-time social worker, and sponsor our regular half-day training program for professionals who work with the elderly on the Special Needs of LGBT Seniors. This year's training session was conducted by John Genke, MSW, CSW, Senior Social Worker, SAGE New York and was attended by 44 professionals. We received a grant of $1,000 from the Cream City Foundation, a grant of $200 from the G/L Community Center Trust Fund [not to be confused with the LGBT Community Center] for rent, a $500 special opportunity grant from Wisconsin Community Fund and a special grant of $5,000 from The Non Profit Management Fund to hire a professional consultant to help us prepare a Strategic Plan for SAGE/Milwaukee. The consultant finished the plan in co-operation with a SAGE Committee in mid 2002. During the year, Eldon Murray and SAGE member Gina Graham attended regular meetings of The Advisory Board to The Commissioners of The Milwaukee County Department on Aging, Ms Graham serving as Assistant Chair of the Board. They also participated in sessions of the Underserved Population Workshop Committee which produced a lengthy report on the needs of the underserved elderly in Milwaukee County, including a special section on the special needs of LGBT seniors. Murray and Graham were also appointed to the Advisory Council for Age and Community Initiative of the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee's "Milwaukee Idea" concept, designed to promote interdisciplinary and community partnerships with a formal structure for Aging Studies. Graham attended the American Society On Aging Conference in New Orleans and Murray attended the Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups (CWAG) three day conference in Appleton. On October 1, SAGE took an office space in the new site of the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, 315 W. Court Street and began to hold most of its events in their meeting rooms. In early November the National Gay and |
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