American Legacies Org, Inc. 2025 Annual Meeting

American Legacies Org, Inc. 2025 Annual Meeting

This is a PUBLIC MEETING

Anyone interested in History, Helping Senior Citizens, Preserving Family Memories and Photographs or Genealogy, is welcome.
The American Legacies Org, Inc. 2025 Board of Directors Meeting will be held in Grandview, Indiana on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 6:00 pm at the Grandview Civic Center, 1301 North Main St., Grandview, Indiana 47615.

The following items will be discussed during this meeting.

1. FREE Christmas Day Meal for Senior Citizens.

   1. Volunteers needed to prepare dishes in their home and/or at the Grandview Civic Center.

   2. Volunteers needed to serve the food to our guests.

   3. Volunteers needed to circulate among the crowd and “talk” with the individuals that show up, and record their memories, if possible.

      1. These comments and memories will be preserved for family members to enjoy in the future. 

2. Proposal for the Adopt A Grandparent Program.

3. Provide Volunteers willing to spend at least one hour a week or month, simply to talk about life, family, memories, etc., with SENIORS that live alone 

4. Each visit should involve TWO volunteers.

   1. These visits should be purely social and friendly, but involve lots of conversation.

   2. The conversations should be recorded, if allowed by the senior citizen. 

   3. If the adopted grandparent starts reminiscing about the past and this conversation is being recorded, please encourage them to verbally give you permission to share a copy of the recording and/or content with their family. This is especially important if they reveal information about their childhood memories, parents, grandparents or other relatives. 

   • Family can be close family or even distant relatives they may have forgotten about or don’t even know.

5. If the volunteers discover any special needs around the home, this should be reported to their supervisor, so a specialized team can be assigned to perform these duties.

6. FREE Yard Care For Seniors, (depending on income and only in select areas.)

• If we offer Free lawn care for seniors on a limited fixed income, we can reach out to professional lawn services around the country and ask them to DONATE x hours per month to help local seniors. In return we will promote those lawn services and and encourage families in the community to use their service and/or make donations to us, that can be used to pay services that will NOT donate their time.

• We also need to help seniors and non-seniors that are victims of towns and county boards that set FINES against individuals, if/when their lawn is too tall, as a result of the property owner being in the hospital or a nursing home and does not have family members, neighbors or friends that will mow the yard for them.

1. Minor repairs on outside of house such as cleaning windows, porch, etc.

2. Minor repairs inside, such as changing light bulbs, cleaning ceiling fans, checking smoke detectors, changing furnace filters or leaky faucet, etc.

3. Help for seniors that cannot drive and need someone to pick up and deliver groceries or household items, for them.

4. Transportation to and from Church.

5. Solicit Assistance from:

   1. Churches 

      1. Historical Societies

      2. Boy Scouts

      3. 4-H 

      4. FFA

      5. Other Organizations

6. 30th Anniversary of American Legacies Org:

   1. How do we want to celebrate the 30^th anniversary of American Legacies, Org. in 2026?

7. Grants 

   1. Assistance needed in writing and applying for Grants on a county, state and federal level.

      1. Grant money to maintain the property, taxes and equipment

      2. Grant money to help build a new pole barn that can be used to: 

         1. Storage of equipment.

         2. Hold events such as meals, weddings and other social events

         3. Historical Museum

         4. Historical Library

8. Donations Needed.

   1. Fundraising Letters

      1. Assistance needed in writing and designing letters that will assist us in raising funds to support: 

         1. The Free Christmas Day Dinner for Seniors.

         2. Domain Name and Hosting for our Websites.

         3. Cost of publishing and donating books to libraries and families.

9. Books:

   1. Discuss the types of books we plan on printing.

      1. Do we print them in house, or farm them out.

      2. Decide how many FREE copies we donate to families and libraries.

10. Financial Report:

    1. Past Expenses.

    2. Proposed budget for the next calendar year. 

11. News Letters:

    1. Should we put out newsletters to individuals that do not have computers?

12. Promotional Material:

    1. American Legacies Patches for use on hats, shirts, jackets, etc.

    2. Dress Shirts, Blouses and Jackets with American Legacies Logo

    3. American Legacies Yard signs for Members

    4. American Legacies Stickers for doors, indicating resident is affiliated with Legacies Adopt A Grandparent, volunteer or supporter.

    5. American Legacies Hats

    6. American Legacies Pens

13. Board Members

    1. Solicit New Board Members

       1. To run websites.

       2. Help with property maintenance and security. 

       3. Marketing

       4. Bookkeeping

    2. Elect or re-elect new officers if needed.

14. Membership cards,

    1. Printed in house.

    2. Available FREE to all AMERICAN senior citizens, volunteers and adopted grandparents.

       1. The membership ID# will allow the person to upload stories, photographs, recipes and genealogy information to our websites.

       2. The membership ID# will also allow the member to control who can see the data they upload to our websites and who can not see it.

          1. Viewing can be restricted to only certain family members, until the passing of the adopted grandparent or senior citizen. This can be important if the data contains vital information that could put someone at risk of a security breach -i.e., mother’s maiden name, etc.

15. How to Best Utilize the Following Donations We Received This Year. 

    1. 7 ½ acres of land containing two stocked fish ponds, two homes and multiple outbuildings.

       1. One of the homes will be occupied by the parties that donated the land, until they pass away.

• In return for living on the land, they have agreed to assist with the security of the property, maintenance of the buildings, land and equipment, as well as help maintain the websites and social media sites.

1. 2002 Massey Ferguson 4-wheel drive tractor with a cab and the following equipment to help maintain the land.

   1. Fifteen-foot-wide finish mower.

   2. Six-foot bush hog mower.

   3. Six-foot grader blade.

   4. Five-foot box blade.

   5. Single bottom plow.

2. Ford Extend-a-Hoe type Backhoe with a cab, to help maintain the fish ponds.

3. 2002 Chevrolet 4 wheel drive ½ ton pickup with a trailer hitch.

4. 2006 Mercury Mountaineer AWD SUV with a trailer hitch.

5. Swisher Zero Radius Mower.

6. Flatbed trailer with a ramp, wide enough to haul the Zero Radius Mower.

7. Club Car Golf Cart, to transport people or equipment to and from the fish ponds.