Welcome to The Caribou Club Foundation Website below.
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The Caribou Club Foundation is a volunteer nonprofit charitable 501 (c) (3) corporation working to help fellow seniors actively navigate through life beyond 60.
The Caribou Club started as an informal social & support group among 50 or so lifelong friends, mostly surfers, from Southern California. As we all approached retirement, we recognized that we could focus our individual skills to form a charitable organization that would help us and fellow Seniors navigate the challenging waters of our retirement years.
We launched our original Caribou Club website in 2008, and then in 2015 we created the Caribou Club Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) non profit corporation, resolved to help seniors and to distribute free information about Caribou Club resources and programs such as:
-Health and exercise options
-Financial Assistance with medical co-payments
-Employment counseling
-Housing availability
-Veterans issues and opportunities
-Tax Preparation
-Caregiver resources
...And if you are a slow enough Caribou to be caught by the wolves:
-Publishing of permanent memorials and obits on our website
Hi all Caribou, and Seasons Greetings.
It’s December and time to let you know what your Caribou Club Foundation did in 2023, besides play golf and stay vertical! This is not a donor letter. We need you to follow us.
We started the year in good shape. We held the Caribou Superbowl Pool in January & February, which generated about $500. Concerts by our crack Ukulele band took in another $400. (Thanks to the Band for their donations). Other donations came in through the year.
We made FIVE $500 donations in 2023, the most ever.
-The first donation was to Carol Prada, who is researching the relationship between dementia and nutrition for an upcoming book. Her late husband Joe, who surfed into his 90’s, suffered from Alzheimer’s, and was a friend of Jeff Meyer and many of us surfers in Santa Monica. All the best, Carol.
-The second was to Ken Furlano, who lost his home to a fire while he was in the hospital with Covid. . We wish the best for Kenny.
-The third donation went to Carol’s Kitchen, a food program for seniors and homeless in Beaumont. Caribou Board member Pat Leahy is close to this project, which just celebrated it’s 25th year if service. This is our second donation to Carol’s Kitchen.
-Our next donation this year occurred when the Caribou Club Foundation participated in a drive for direct cash relief for West Maui residents suffering from the horrible fire they recently endured. After $500 was collected for the victims at this year’s California Street Surf Classic, The Caribou Club Foundation matched the pot, so we could sent $1000 directly to Maui residents.
-Finally, after recently receiving a $500 donation from the Ventura Surf Club, we have turned around and paid it forward to the Ventura County Council on Aging, (Board member Paul Atkinson was a volunteer driver for them), which provides meals, food, and transportation for seniors in Ventura County. This is our second donation to this organization
We’re all volunteers. We pay for own logo hats and parties, along with the gear we send you. We also pay for our own internet service, (not cheap). We make sure that 100% of your donations go to help people we target.
Thanks for being part of our group. I especially want to thank Terry Coultas, who not only set up our website years ago, but continues to maintain it. Terry is 80 years old today, (12-17-23), and he possesses too many Caribou web secrets to leave us soon. Terry, Happy Birthday, but you gotta make it to 90!!! Happy New Year Everyone.
Gene Meyer
805-223-5137
November 28, 2021