Community Involvement Within Marion County
Home Instead Senior Care is involved with several programs throughout Marion County. We are dedicated to making a lasting impact and improving the quality of life of our seniors. Listed below are a few of the programs that we are involved with. We welcome your questions and would love to have the opportunity to discuss them with you further. You can reach us at 352-622-6447.
The Ocala/Marion County Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber unites hundreds of business and professional firms creating a unique organization working to improve business and build a better community. The Chamber serves nearly 2,000 business professionals from more than 1,500 member business throughout the greater Ocala/Marion County area. The Ocala/Marion Chamber of Commerce is proud to be among only twenty-four chambers of commerce in the nation, and only two in the State of Florida to receive a 5-Star accreditation ranking from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The website for The Chamber is: www.ocalacc.com
Ocala Rotary
The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and to encourage and foster the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service. To encourage high ethical standards in business and professions. To foster the application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business and community life. Finally to advance international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. The website for the Ocala Rotary is: www.clubrunner.ca/ocala.
Interfaith Emergency Services
With Every New Client, we support our community by contributing to Interfaith Emergency Services. Interfaith Emergency Service (www.interfaith-marion.org) is a not for profit organization which brings together people of all faiths who seek to minister to persons in need through combined prayer and action. Interfaith Emergency Services can be reached at 352-629-8868.
Honor Flight
The Ocala Honor Flight is part of the national Honor Flight Network. This Network is a non-profit organization created solely to honor American's veterans for all their sacrifices. Top priority is given to the senior veterans of World War II along with those other veterans who are terminally ill. Now with over one thousand World War II veterans dying each day, the time to express our thanks to these brave men and women is running out.
The Honor Flights are organized around the nation in order to allow veterans to visit the World War II monument and other historical sites in Washington, DC.
Information about the national Honor Flight Program can be found at: www.HonorFlight.org
The web site for the Ocala Honor is: www.OcalaHonorFlight.org
ShelterboxUSA
Our Home Instead Senior Care Office supports ShelterboxUSA through education and fundraising in Central Florida. Since its inception in 2000, ShelterBox (www.shelterboxusa.org) has provided shelter and dignity following over 140 disasters in more than 70 countries. ShelterBox instantly responds to earthquake, volcano, flood, hurricane, cyclone, tsunami or conflict by delivering boxes of aid.
Each iconic green box contains a family tent, means to purify water and cook food, tools and other essentials. The contents are tailored depending on the nature and location of the disaster. Highly trained ShelterBox Response Teams distribute boxes on the ground, working closely with local organizations, international aid agencies and Rotary clubs worldwide.
