Active Aging for All is Our Mission

About The Center

The Center is a nationally-accredited, award-winning nonprofit organization that creates opportunities for healthy aging through social engagement, physical well-being, civic involvement, creativity, and lifelong learning. Since opening in 1960 (originally as the Senior Center), we have never stopped growing and evolving to serve our community, becoming along the way a national model for senior health and independence. The Center at Belvedere, which opened in 2020, is a community asset designed to meet the needs of a growing population and advance one of our region’s health priorities—increasing well-being across the lifespan. Older adults who maintain active lifestyles and social connections incur lower health care costs, support family members as caregivers, and give back to the community as volunteers.

Why The Center is Excited to be a Green Business Alliance Member

Multiple environmental factors influence the risk of disease and disability across the lifespan, and that includes climate change, which threatens human health and well-being in many ways. Being involved in socially responsible activities to protect the environment is one way to positively impact community health. The Center is a resource that provides programs and services that respond to the diverse needs and interests of area seniors and encourages their involvement in and with The Center and the community. We can most effectively serve individuals—and, by extension, their families and communities—by being wise stewards of our resources, both financial and environmental.  

What We Hope to Accomplish

The Center at Belvedere was built to be environmentally friendly, with energy-efficient components like the 480 solar panels on the roof that will provide about 50 percent of our energy needs. LED lighting and sensors conserve energy, and water bottle filling stations reduce plastic waste. By joining GBA’s collective commitment to reducing climate impact, we hope to advance environmental wellness both organizationally and regionally, while enhancing financial stewardship, with efforts to:  

• Reduce operating costs by reducing and greening energy use, water use, and waste

• Mitigate risk associated with fossil fuel cost variances and future regulation by relying on solar
  powered energy generation

• Expand our contributions to well-being for people of all ages 

Specifically, the Center is looking forward to cutting our carbon footprint through such initiatives as an enhanced recycling program; providing a central location for specific community services to reduce automobile traffic; promoting public transportation to The Center via a bus stop at the front entrance; and expanding our slate of environmental program offerings to support community education and awareness. 

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