Norwood Life Care Foundation's Annual Holiday Appeal

November 2025

 

Dear Friends,

 

At this time of thanks and giving, we reflect on our blessings. The Norwood Life Care Foundation is thankful for you and your connection to our nonprofit organizations. Perhaps you’re:


  • The family member or friend of a Norwood Crossing resident or a former resident who appreciates the programs and services we provide that aren’t covered by fees, like residents and volunteers Mary and Nancy, pictured above;
  • A Norwood Seniors Network client, enjoying the myriad services we offer;
  • One of our vibrant norVOLution volunteers who help serve our nonprofit mission;
  • A staff member who compassionately cares for our senior residents and clients or enhances their lives with your expertise and interests;
  • A Norwood Park Senior Center member who appreciates the staff and equipment we provide there;
  • One of our generous donors who support the seniors we serve with charitable care when their personal resources run out.

 

Whatever your connection is to our Norwood organizations, you are important to our ongoing mission and we are grateful. As we celebrate the blessings of the season this year, please join us by supporting Norwood’s seniors with a gift to the Norwood Life Care Foundation’s 2025 Holiday Appeal. Funds raised by the Norwood Life Care Foundation sustain the nonprofit mission of Norwood Crossing, Norwood Seniors Network, norVOLution and the Norwood Park Senior Center. Thanks to our generous supporters, Norwood Life Society cared for more than 1,750 elders last year and provided $4.5 million in charitable care. We hope we can count on you to send a year-end gift to support the seniors in our care.

 

Wishing you and your family a happy holiday season and a wonderful 2026,

Jennifer Sigmond

Philanthropy Officer

Norwood Life Care Foundation

P.S.  Please click below to make your tax-deductible gift.  Your generosity is a wonderful and much appreciated gift this holiday season!

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Feel free to scroll through the photos (or let the slideshow autoplay) to see your generosity in action!

Resident Donor Spotlight

We’re so thankful to those of you who have already contributed to our Giving Tuesday and 2025 Holiday Appeals! You make a difference at this Giving time of year by helping provide valuable programs, services and benevolent care to Norwood Crossing’s senior residents and Norwood Seniors Network’s senior clients.

Meet Lowell. Lowell has lived at Norwood Crossing for 8 years after moving with his wife from central Illinois to be closer to their daughter. Lowell wears many hats here: resident, donor, volunteer and all-around expert. Lowell is a retired University of Illinois Biology professor and keeps very busy continuing research on various subjects – currently detailing Civil War Naval battles - and building up U of I’s academic archives with his findings. Ask him anything; he is a fount of information!


Lowell enjoys his roomy apartment at Norwood Crossing and getting to know his fellow residents and their histories. He also likes the parties with live entertainment and says this year’s October Fest was really great. Lowell especially appreciates the staff members here and, ever the academic, encourages them to continue their educations. Lowell is very proud of former Norwood CNAs who are now enrolled in or graduating from Nursing school – and so are we!


Lowell is also active in the greater Norwood neighborhood. He walks at least 2 miles every morning and has made friends with children and their parents going to the grammar school across the street and with neighbors heading to the commuter train. He also volunteers with a local sewing group to iron “little dresses for Africa.” He says he likes “contributing to make little kids happy.”


Contributing is a way of life for Lowell. He supports the Norwood Life Care Foundation, saying “if my donations help out the programs and services, and I’m able to do it, I like to help.”


We are grateful to Lowell and all the donors who support our nonprofit mission. If you haven’t donated yet to our Holiday Appeal, there’s still time to join the fun. You’ll support a very good cause and touch the lives of so many. 


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