The Foster Grandparent Program (FGP), which includes Pottawattamie, Mills, and Fremont Counties, provides volunteers aged 55 and older with an opportunity to work with children in day care centers, schools, shelters and other non-profit agencies that service youth. For their service, if they meet income requirements, the FG receives an hourly stipend, which is tax free and does not count as income toward any benefits that the volunteer is currently enjoying, providing that they serve a minimum of 15 hours a week.
Some Foster Grandparents hard at work.
"The Paper Bag Project"
Presented by Odyssey Hospice for Foster Grandparent In service.
SeniorCorps Foster Grandparent Tree for the 2010 Festival of Trees. The tree was decorated to help raise money for the Art Council in Council Bluffs.
