Organizations Filed Purposes:
Help of Ojai's (the Organization) mission is to combine community and individual resources to respond to the identified, unmet basic human needs of the Ojai Valley residents. The Organization is dedicated to assisting Ojai Valley citizens through various programs, including Home Delivered Meals, hot noon congregate meal, various supportive services and local travel. In addition, the Organization runs the local homeless service center and low-income assistance program. Finally, the Organization supports youth through a joint collaboration with the Ojai Unified School District to provide on-site, free counseling for issues of grief or loss.Help of Ojai's primary goal is to meet basic needs with 61% of its efforts being targeted at providing food, shelter and access to medical care. On the other hand, 10%, 26% and 3% of Help of Ojai's efforts are targeted at providing case management, support services and activities based programs, respectively.
GREAT PLATES PROGRAM - Provides restaurant meals to Ojai Valley senior residents and other adults who are at high risk from COVID-19. In 2020, Help of Ojai served 35,000 meals to 300 seniors.
VALLEY OUTREACH The program offers resource and referral services to housed low-income residents of the Ojai Valley. In 2019/2020, VO provided rental assistance to 45 families to aid in eviction prevention, provided 7 tons of food to low-income families and assisted 200 families in receiving subsidized energy, such as gas and electric services. In 2019/2020, Valley Outreach served around 1,500 clients.
HOME DELIVERED MEALS - Hot meals on a daily basis to seniors or other qualified; delivered by volunteers.In 2019/2020 Help of Ojai served approx. 50,000 meals to seniors in the Ojai Valley, of which 17% were congregate meals and 83% were home delivered meals.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Terri Wolfe | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | 40 | $107,062 |
| Severo Lara | President | 3 | $0 |
| Dawn Golden | Treasurer | 3 | $0 |
| Charley Sledd | Director | 3 | $0 |
| Martha Dowden | Director | 3 | $0 |
| Bill Nugent | Director | 3 | $0 |
| Don Reed | Director | 3 | $0 |
| Deirdre Daly | Director | 3 | $0 |
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