RONA BARRETT FOUNDATION's Fundraiser:

Why Gray Matters?
A Special Invitation to be solve the crisis of housing and services for vulnerable seniors. Your donation supports the innovative Golden Inn & Village, a community-based housing solution for low-income seniors. 

How can a book help?
On January 29th nearly 200 hopeful seniors, who on average survive on a fixed income of just $800 - $1,000 a month, stood in line to apply for affordable residency at the Golden Inn & Village.

Just as personal and probing as her celebrity interviews, Rona “tells all” in these 55+ thought-provoking, funny and useful insights on issues that matter.

Hollywood’s Variety magazine called Rona Barrett “the lady who turned entertainment coverage into big biz.”

“Gray Matters aims to create conversation around aging, our country’s seniors and those who care for and about them.” –Rona Barrett

Gray Matters  (coming fall 2016!)  will also help create conversation around ages - for people of all ages. 

Every donation level unlocks your immediate download of the Gray Matters Preview Book (a link will be included in your donation receipt email)

Samples in the Preview include:

Trumpeting Our Role as Guardian Angels: If not for my ‘udder mudders,’ my guardian angels, I would never have made it.

Fears of a Clown: He’s [Robin Williams] out of the headlines now, but still on my mind – for personal reasons.

SAY WHAT? A Male Decibel-Measuring Contest: Rona’s Hearing Test for Men Over 50. I said, RONA’S HEARING TEST FOR… never mind.

About the Golden Inn & Village: Affordable Housing for Seniors

The first ever Golden Inn & Village is an innovative model for community-based senior housing and supportive services, opening in Santa Ynez Valley, California this summer. The Golden Inn aims to be a solution to the crisis in affordable senior housing now growing in every community in our country – in your community. Your support of the Golden Inn & Village will also help create the potential to replicate this solution in every community where our vulnerable seniors face this dire need.

Donate today to support the Golden Inn & Village, an innovation in affordable housing and services for seniors in need.

*Nothing But The Truth DVDs, a reward at the $150 donation level while supplies last, are available by donation from Rona Barrett Enterprises to the Rona Barrett Foundation.

With your help we can make a difference in the lives of seniors who need to know they are not forgotten in their golden years.

About Rona Barrett:

For more than 30 years, Rona Barrett was a pioneering entertainment reporter, commentator and producer. Since 2000, after caring for her own father as his health failed, she has focused her attention and career on the growing crisis of housing and support for our aging population. She is the founder and CEO of the Rona Barrett Foundation, the catalyst behind the innovative model for affordable senior housing, the Golden Inn & Village.

Rona Barrett’s personal involvement has also provided opportunities for recognition and awareness for critical programs, issues, and policy at the national level and in the communities where our seniors are served.

Foundation mission:

The nonprofit Rona Barrett Foundation seeks to provide a solution to affordable housing and supportive services for seniors in need with the development of the Golden Inn & Village, where seniors may access a variety of care that meets their needs as they age in place.

There is still time for the nation to prepare for the evolving needs of older adults by expanding the supply of housing that is affordable, safe, and accessible; providing opportunities for older adults to connect socially yet live independently; and integrating housing and long-term care services to support those aging in private homes. These changes will improve not only quality of life for older adults, but also the livability of communities for people of all ages. Given the scale of the challenges ahead, the time to act is now. – Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard Universtiy

Other Ways To Help

Even if you can't donate, you can still help!

• Share our campaign on social media…and like the Rona Barrett Foundation Facebook page!
• Email a link to this page to people you know who may be able to make a financial contribution
• Visit www.ronabarrettfoundation.org to learn more about the need and the solution to affordable housing for seniors
• Share your time: spend time with your senior loved ones, friends, parents or grandparents and volunteer at your local senior center!

Keep thinking the good thoughts!  

luv,
Rona