About the Foundation
The Levy Senior Center Foundation was created to provide funds to the Levy Senior Center to enhance its programming, offset expenses and improve the facility.
The partnership between the Foundation and the City of Evanston enables the Levy Senior Center to sustain its first-rate programming and facility.
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The Foundation offers free cultural experiences with two music series, a lecture series, aging well programs, free theater tickets and writing workshops through community partnerships. We pay for improvements to the Center, underwrite events and much more!
Foundation programs help Evanston-area older adults remain active, independent and connected.
Levy Center front gardens maintained by the LSCF
What We Do
Levy Lecture Series
Levy Lecture Series: This free lecture series features engaging academics and speakers who specialize in a wide range of topics.
Levy Music Series
Jamming Jean Concert Series: A free all-ages music series featuring music and musicians that reflect Evanston and its cultural diversity.
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Fran Randall Music Series: This free concert series brings the talents of young, award-winning classical musicians to the Levy Senior Center.
Theater Tickets
Northlight Theatre: The LSCF partners with Northlight through its Arts for Everyone program, which seeks to remove barriers to theater attendance. Northlight shares 50 free tickets which we raffle off to our community via email.
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Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts: The LSCF also receives free tickets from Northwestern’s Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. The tickets are awarded via an email raffle.
Gardens
North and South Gardens, and Rothschild Courtyard Garden: The Foundation ensures the upkeep of the gardens at the entrance to the Levy Senior Center and provides for annual plantings for the containers in the Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Enabling Garden in the courtyard. Additionally, the LSCF ensures that the garden furniture and hardscaping, including the raised mosaic planters, are kept in top condition.
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Vegetable Gardens: With with the help of volunteers and local garden clubs, the LSCF installed, planted and now maintains eight raised vegetable beds. Produce grown is given to older adults in the Levy Center Community.
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Friday Farm Stand: In partnership with Evanston Grows and the City, the LSCF holds farm stands from July through October, giving away produce grown in our own, and other community gardens to local older adults experiencing food insecurity.
Program Support
Aging Well Programs: Heaven Can Wait offers memberships free to anyone 90 and older. Centenarians are also entitled to a special birthday cake and celebration with the 100th Birthday program.
Senior Day Trips: Through the Dennis Newton Scholarship Fund, travel expenses are subsidized for all attendees, and scholarships are available to all in need who apply. We also sponsor virtual events.
Supplies & Equipment: The Foundation provides the Center with supplemental funding as requested from the program director. Requests can range from art class supplies to fitness equipment and bingo prizes.
Event Sponsorships
Annual Center Events: The Christmas Bakery Bus Tour and the City Employee Reception, are just a few events the Foundation supports.
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Senior Athletic Tournaments & Senior Olympics: The Foundation covers registration and entrance fees for participants.
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Aging Well Conference: The LSCF is an annual sponsor of this event which addresses the well being of older adults.
Building Improvements
The LSCF also provides funding for building maintenance and improvements. In the past several years, we completed significant renovations of the Joseph Levy, Jr. Library and Bobby's Room.
Local Partnerships
The Foundation is pleased to support and work with these community organizations and local businesses: Aging Well Conference, Argentium Care, Art Encounter, Barker Metalcraft, Evanston Art Center, Evanston Chamber of Commerce, Evanston Chapter of NAACP, Evanston Grows, Evanston History Center, Evanston Lumber, Friends of Robert Crown, Garden Club of Evanston, Inspire Through Flowers, Nature's Perspective, Northlight Theatre, Northwestern University, Sawfish Restoration, and Women's Club of Evanston.