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Boney James Release New Album and Announces Dayton Tour Stop

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Four-time GRAMMY nominee and multi-platinum saxophonist Boney James has announced plans for a 2020 tour in support of his new album Solid, set to release on April 17 by Concord Records. Solid is Boney James’ seventeenth album and the follow-up to his smash 2017 release Honestly – his eleventh #1 Billboard Contemporary Jazz Album. The Solid Tour 2020 will stop in Huber Heights, OH at Rose Music Center on Saturday, June 27th.

“A solid relationship is when someone has your back and will stand by your side no matter what,” explains Boney James about the title of his new album. “Solid is a word that has a few meanings, but this one really resonated with me and became the theme of the record.”

Sometimes, inspiration is slow in coming, evasive and stubborn. Other times, if an artist is very fortunate, it simply flows, the music practically writing itself. That’s how Solid, the latest release from Boney James came to be. “This record really flowed at an unusually quick pace,” Boney says. “There was a lot of positive energy in making this music. Solid is a very upbeat record. As I was writing them, these songs put a smile on my face.”

All of Solid’s eleven tracks were produced and written or co-written by James. Three songs – “Full Effect,” “Tonic” and the title track—were built from licks played at sound-check by touring guitarist Kendall Gilder on the road in support of Honestly. “I said, hey, what’s that riff you’re playing?” James recalls, “And Kendall said, ‘that’s just something I’m messing around with.’ I got my iPhone and recorded them, then took it home and wrote the songs!”

Four other songs were initiated by longtime James collaborator, acclaimed writer/producer Jairus ‘J-Mo’ Mozee (Anderson Paak, Nicki Minaj, Anthony Hamilton). One of those, “Be Here,” was ultimately transformed into Solid’s Adult Urban single featuring special guest Kenny Lattimore, best known for his Top 10 R&B hit “For You.”

Says James, “We met at the Soul Train Awards twenty years ago and he said, ‘Some day we need to work together!’ As I was working on ‘Be Here’, I started to hear his voice in my head. I reached out to him and he wrote and recorded the lyrics. It’s such a romantic song and it really reinforced the theme of the record, strong and positive relationships.”

James crafted many of the song titles (“Fresh Air”, “On The Path”, “Tonic”) to play off this theme, “Similar to my last CD Honestly, this new music is a reaction to how stressful the world feels these days. Music is a respite, it’s always ‘solid’ and it never lets me down.”

Boney James’ personal relationship with music has never been anything but solid. Picking up the sax at age 10 in his native New Rochelle, New York, “I immediately loved it, and it pretty quickly became my favorite thing to do.” By the time he entered his teens, James was gigging with bands, and he turned pro at 19. He apprenticed as a sideman for artists like Morris Day, The Isley Brothers, Teena Marie and many others, touring and doing sessions for seven years before cutting his first solo album in 1992. The independently released Trust led immediately to a major label deal and a string of increasingly successful recordings and nonstop touring.

Now a four-time GRAMMY nominee with four RIAA Gold records and career sales topping three million units, James continues to defy musical genres; A two-time NAACP Award nominee, a Soul Train Award winner and named one of the Top 3 Billboard Contemporary Jazz Artists of the Decade.

James says he’s looking forward to heading out on the road and seeing how the Solid material evolves from night to night. “I love playing live, maybe more than I ever did. A lot of guys get tired of the traveling but it’s still a joy for me every time I go out there and play.”

It’s still a joy to his multitude of fans too. “I try to ‘be there’ for the people who are interested in my music,” says James, “to beSolid in that relationship and to not let anybody down. I often get great compliments from the people that come to my shows, that I ‘never disappoint’ them, and that’s very gratifying to me. That’s what I was trying to express with this title, that sense of character… to stand for something principled.”

Tickets for the Huber Heights show will go on sale to the public beginning at 11:00am on Friday, February 28th at www.Ticketmaster.com and www.Rosemusiccenter.com. Ticket prices include parking and are subject to applicable Ticketmaster fees.  Dates, times and artists subject to change without notice. All events rain or shine.

April Kline’s “Small Changes Profound Results” Book Launch Party

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Local practitioner April Kline has built her career on nurturing freedom and progress by inspiring self love. With the release of the book “Small Changes Profound Results,” April has beautifully packaged 25 simple tools to help you live your best life and release yourself to become the most fulfilled version of yourself that you can possibly be.

This Thursday, Kline will celebrate the release of her book with a public launch party, where she is hoping to gather friends old and new to celebrate the next steps.

The launch party will kick off at 6 pm at The Brightside, located at 905 E Third St., and include an intimate reading from the book. Kline said the event will be an opportunity to connect with friends old and new, with delicious hor d’oeuvres prepared by Chef Joe Fish, juicy beverages and a cash bar. The highlight of the event will be an opportunity to hear from Kline herself and reflect on the book, which encapsulates attainable acts and easy steps to create abundance and profound change.

“We are all moving forward into a beautiful journey together,” Kline said. “This book was an opportunity for me to reach out and offer some insights and reflection along the way.”

Copies of the book are available now on Amazon, and additional autographed copies of the book will be available for sale for $20 at the event.

The launch event is free and open to the public, though tickets are limited and will be available on AprilKline.com until they are all reserved.

April Kline is a Certified Professional Midwife and Doula, and a highly experienced Craniosacral and Somatoemotional Release Therapist. April is also the founder and creator of the Birth With Spirit Doula Certification training program. April graduated from the Healing Hands Institute in New Jersey in 2001 and is certified through the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork, is a fourth-degree Craniosacral bodyworker through the Upledger Institute, and is also a Reiki Master and teacher.

Jekyll & Hyde Auditions

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Auditions will take place next door to the Playhouse in the Wegerzyn Administrative building. Please follow the signs that will lead you to the audition room. Callbacks if needed will take place on Wednesday evening. If you are or will be cast in another local performance of Jekyll and Hyde please feel free to contact us as an audition from you will not be necessary. A few of our artistic team will be attending those local performances and will consider that your audition. If you fit into the parameters of our vision you can begin rehearsal upon closing of your show. We will only cast principals from outside our auditions if the roles cannot be adequately cast from what is presented to us during our auditions. All sides and songs for callbacks will be posted to this event at a later date.

For your audition please prepare 16-32 bars of a song in the style of the show and character in which you are auditioning. Due to time constraints we will not allow ANY audition to go over the 32 bar limit. All music must have sheet music clearly marked and no acapella or digital tracks will be permitted. The audition form will be available online for you to print and fill out ahead of your audition.

Leap Day Race

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Join us at the race that only happens once every four years! You can run/walk the 2.29K or the 2.29M distance or run the 20.20K. You’re guaranteed to earn a PR! This is a family friendly event, so bring your kids for the free kids run! Your registration includes an infinity band (similar to a Buff) and post race celebration (details pending).

Three frogs will start the 20.20K race 30 seconds ahead of everyone. Think you can beat them? If you do, you’ll receive a special award!

Nat Geo Live: Anand Varma with Beauty And The Bizarre

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When ANAND VARMA takes a photograph of a parasitic wasp consuming a caterpillar from the inside, he doesn’t want to you to be disgusted. He wants you to be astonished. After all, he’s devoted years of his life to perfecting his techniques to create dramatic, bizarre — and beautiful — images of the miniature world around us. In these truly unique images, he reveals the secret life cycle of the honeybee, captures the lightning-fast behaviors of hummingbirds, and offers a rare glimpse at our world’s small wonders.

Regional Premiere of Gloria: A Life

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The Human Race Theatre Company is continuing its 2019-2020 “Women of Influence Season” with the Dayton premiere of Gloria: A Life, a new play celebrating the life and legacy of one of the most important figures of America’s feminist movement.

Fifty years after Gloria Steinem began raising her voice and advocating for others, her vision is as urgent today as ever. Described simply as “History. Her Story. Our Story,” Gloria: A Life is a richly detailed tapestry that’s both inspiring and remarkable.

The Cast. photo by Heather N. Powell

Written by Tony Award-nominee playwright Emily Mann, Gloria: A Life opened Off-Broadway in 2018 to critical acclaim. Kappy Kilburn, Executive Director of The Human Race Theatre Company, played an instrumental role in bringing Gloria’s story to the stage in New York City, and now to Dayton, Ohio. The Human Race Theatre’s production will mark the first performances of Gloria: A Life beyond its original creative team. 

“It was a privilege to be a part of the journey to the world premiere of Gloria: A Life as I packed up to leave NYC for Dayton,” said Kilburn. “And through that relationship, it is now my honor to present it here, at The Human Race Theatre Company, and continue the powerful conversation this play elicits.”

Gloria believes in the necessity of conversation as a catalyst for change, and the powerful play offers us all a path forward in a way that only live theatre can provide. This regional premiere features a dynamic all-female cast, led by Jennifer Johansen as Gloria Steinem and directed by Marya Spring Cordes.

“When we work together, anything is possible,” said Cordes. “While a good deal has changed for the better, every worthwhile fight is three steps forward and one step back. We are still fighting for a good deal of the same gender and civil rights issues all these years later.”

“Gloria: A Life humanizes and contextualizes the iconic history of Gloria’s life, shining as an example of how rewarding and challenging it can be to lead a fully human, active life,” she added.

The entire community is invited to join The Human Race Theatre in celebrating this award-winning journalist, social political activist, and nationally recognized leader of the American feminist movement and Toledo, Ohio native.

GLORIA: A LIFE is rated PG-15. Parents are strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under the age of 15.

Biographies on the cast and creative team can be found on The Human Race Theatre Company’s website under GLORIA: A LIFE.

They Pay What You Can Preview is Wed, Feb 26th, Opening night is Friday, February 28.

Tickets for GLORIA: A LIFE start at $14. Prices vary depending on the day of the week and seating location. Group discounts are available for parties of 10 or more. Student tickets are available at 50% off regular adult prices and a student I.D. must be presented when picking up at the Box Office. The Sunday, March 1 7:00 p.m. performance is “Sawbuck Sunday,” when any available seat can be purchased in person for just $10 at the Loft Theatre box office two hours prior to the show. Discounts are subject to availability and some restrictions apply.

All performances are at the Metropolitan Art Center’s Loft Theatre, located at 126 North Main Street in downtown Dayton, Ohio. Show times for GLORIA: A LIFE are 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Performances on Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings begin at 7:00 p.m., and at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday matinees.

Tickets and performance information for GLORIA: A LIFE are available at www.humanracetheatre.org or by calling Ticket Center Stage at (937) 228-3630, and at the Schuster Center box office.

Yankee Trace Winter Blues Fest

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a tap takeover by Crooked Handle Brewing Co., open Golf Simulators and a live band Until Rust. Please register at the eventbrite link

 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yankee-trace-winter-blues-fest-tickets-94684009421?fbclid=IwAR0nm2Aem6AWzECG3vxNcoCCQ5id7QJifyc_zstexls1Kvx22mP5vKDoImc

Venue

Yankee Trace Golf Club
10000 Yankee St
Dayton, OH 45458 United States
Phone:
438-3585
Website:
http://www.yankeetrace.or

Artist’s Reception | Amy Kollar Anderson

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Join us for the gallery opening for local artist Amy Kollar Anderson!

The reception is free to attend and open to the public, hosted in the upstairs gallery, where Amy will be on site to discuss her work! Light hors d’oeuvres will be served; wine and cocktails will be 20% off for this event!

Amy Kollar Anderson creates surreal narrative paintings inspired by natural forms, decorative arts and her love of animals. Her work has been shown internationally and featured in the publication, Imagine the Imagination: New Visions of Surrealism. Anderson was awarded three of the ReImagining Works commissions for the Dayton Metro Library in 2014-17 and the Montgomery County Artist Fellowship Grant in 2007.

She received her B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Master of Humanities, with a focus in Fine Arts, from Wright State University.

Amy Kollar Anderson lives with her husband and their three cats in the birthplace of aviation, Dayton, Ohio. Until recently, she was the Gallery Coordinator for the Rosewood Gallery, but left that position to pursue her art career full-time.

Read more about Amy and her work here: http://www.kollaranderson.com/

Huge News for Theater Couple with Dayton Roots!

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DaytonMostMetro has been covering the Bengson’s for a long time as Ghostlight Coffee Owner Shane Anderson reminded me this afternoon after sharing their big news! For those of you who aren’t familiar with Anderson’s theatrical history, he was the co-founder of the Encore Theater Company here in Dayton, and at times a theater writer for DMM.  Today he reached out to us to share the fabulous news for Shaun & Abigail Bengson.

Today Playbill shared that the American Theatre Wing has announced the recipients of the 2020 Jonathan Larson Grants, named for the late composer of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent to honor emerging composers, lyricists, and book writers.The Bengsons (Hundred Days; The Lucky Ones; Sundown, Yellow Moon) were one of the four recipients  in the Music and Lyrics category. The grant is awarded to musical theatre composers, lyricists, and librettists, or writing teams, early in their career, to support artistic endeavors and safeguard long-term music writing careers.

Each recipient will receive an unrestricted grant of $10,000 as well as additional support in the form of residencies, concerts, and recording grants. The grants will be presented March 23 by the Wing at a private event in New York City that will feature special performances of their work. This year, all four recipients will also receive a $2,500 Saw Island Foundation Recording Grant.

Abigail Bengson and Shaun Bengson. photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN

 

For a little history of Shaun and Abigail’s Dayton history check out these previous MostMetro.com stories:

AIN’T THAT GOOD NEWS…?  June, 8, 2010

Shaun McClain Bengson was a local boy.  Bellbrook.  You might’ve even seen him perform as a kid…BHS marching band & theater productions, Sinclair Jazz Combo, community theater groups. In 2001 he began to explore beyond the Miami Valley.  First he attended college at Indiana University (studied Ethnomusicology & Traditional Indiana Fiddling), then after graduation Shaun moved to New York City as a part of the city’s teaching fellows program.  He became a music teacher in NYC.  He was assigned to a school for special education students, in a unit for students with Autism.  It was in this unit where Shaun crafted programs such as “Little Kids Rock!” and then “The New Manhattan Music Project,” where his students wrote, produced & performed their own musicals.  It was at the performance of these musicals where Shaun found love.  In walks Abigail Nessen, out walks “The Bengson’s,” and a new band called the “Zombie Nationalists.”  They were engaged within two weeks and writing their first musical.

 

A Testimony To Our Time Remaining  BY 

The Bengsons Perform The Proof

The Bengsons CD Release Party w/Walk The Moon
Thursday, January 20 · 8:00pm – 11:30pm

Shane Anderson, the technical director for the Encore Theater Company called me one late afternoon last October saying that I needed to come down to the Oregon District to check out the Bengsons. He said they were a husband and wife musical duo that were rehearsing their latest project, The Proof.

The premise caught me by surprise by its complexity. This was a story about two lovers who, upon finding out that the husband was suffering from a terminal disease, consciously decided to compress the sixty years or so that they once imagined that they together into a single year, which was what reality and circumstance had afforded to them. As they launched into an condensed version of the whole poetic précis, I felt the same loss of adjectives to describe what I was witnessing that Shane had had earlier.

Those of you who attended the June 2010  production of RENT in C{space got  a glimpse of Shaun & Abigail.  Shaun led the rockin’ band, giving this version of RENT an instrumental style of it’s own.  Abigail portrayed “Mimi.”  Her Mimi was perhaps a tinge “Joplin-inspired.”  She took the dark role & gave it a fierce, hard edge that was probably more truthful to the character than “glam’d” for Broadway.production of RENT in C{space got just a glimpse of Shaun & Abigail.  Shaun led the rockin’ band, giving this version of RENT an instrumental style of it’s own.  Abigail portrayed “Mimi.”  Her Mimi was perhaps a tinge “Joplin-inspired.”  She took the dark role & gave it a fierce, hard edge that was probably more truthful to the character than “glam’d” for Broadway.

 

Botched But Indestructible .  BY 

…This musical is often considered a one-man show, but has always been a solid two-hander due to the presence of Yitzhak, Hedwig’s obsessive, occasionally bickering husband superbly portrayed with crazed, wide-eyed intensity by the mesmerizing Abigail Nessen Bengson, who took Dayton by storm last season as Mimi in Encore’s production of “Rent.” Yitzhak is primarily a reaction role, but Bengson, while never stealing focus from Parkey or reducing the compatible rapport they establish, commands attention with every dynamic, character-specific move she makes.

Trace Adkins To Play Fraze!

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A Nashville icon for more than two decades, Trace Adkins has made his mark on the country-music industry. 11 million albums sold. Time-honored hit singles. Momentous, fiery and always memorable live performances. GRAMMY nominations. CMT and ACM awards. Nearly 200 million plays on YouTube. Hell, even a slew of movie and TV roles have come the Grand Ole Opry member’s way. But ask Adkins what’s left to prove in his career and the small-town Louisiana native says it’s simple: the itch remains. To create. To collaborate. To continually feel the excitement that comes after whipping up a new song out of thin air and laying it down to tape.

It’s what, after all these years, he says he still craves. “It’s an adrenaline rush and I love it,” says Adkins, “There’s nothing else like that,” the Louisiana native offers. “That is still my favorite thing to do in this business. Go into the studio with just some lyrics and a melody and then let the finest musicians in the world help take it and turn it into something magical. It liberates me. I just dig it!”

Working with some of Nashville’s most respected songwriters, Adkins continues to find ways to connect with his fans through music while recording what he describes as autobiographical songs throughout his career. “Over the years people have asked me ‘How could we get to know you?’ Well, if you really wanted to know who Trace Adkins is go back and listen to the album cuts on the records I’ve done over my career. Those are the songs that reflect where I was in my head at the time I made that record.”

The Way I Wanna Go Tour
Thursday, July 2, 2020
8:00 PM
Tickets $25 to $45*
Tickets go on sale Feb. 22 at 10 AM

Nugent To Return To The Rose!

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The Motor City Madman is back! Multi-platinum guitar icon Ted Nugent will bring the 2020 “Best @#%! Tour Ever” to Rose Music Center on Thursday, August 13th.

Ted Nugent has carved a permanent place in rock & roll history as the ultimate guitar-shredding showman, selling more than 40 million albums, performing over 6,500 high-octane live shows, and continuing to set attendance records at venues around the globe.

Nugent was named Detroit’s Greatest Guitar Player of All Time by readers of MLive, and his no-holds barred career spans five decades of multi-platinum hits. From the ground breaking Amboy Dukes’ hit “Journey to the Center of the Mind,” to classics like “Stranglehold” (ranked in the Top 100 Classic Rock Songs and #1 Guitar Lick), “Cat Scratch Fever,” (32nd Best Hard Rock Song of All Time) Damn Yankees chartbuster “High Enough,” and cult classic “Fred Bear,” (the most requested song for radio airplay in Michigan & Wisconsin), Ted and his inimitable sound have been featured on VH1’s Behind the Music, A&E’s Biography and more.

For millions of passionate music lovers everywhere, Ted delivers the Ultimate Life Soundtrack. A Ted Nugent show is not just a performance — it’s a fire-breathing celebration!

Tickets for the Huber Heights show will go on sale to the public beginning at 11:00am on Friday, February 21st atwww.Ticketmaster.com and www.Rosemusiccenter.com. Ticket prices include parking and are subject to applicable Ticketmaster fees.  Dates, times and artists subject to change without notice. All events rain or shine.

Story Slam Dayton

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Feb Theme- Gifts of Love.

Tell us about the good, the bad and the indifferent gifts you’ve received in the name of love.

$5.00 at the door. Bring a story and bring a friend. Best story of the night wins $50 and a guaranteed spot at the next month’s Slam.

Doors open for seating at 6:30pm, stories start at 7pm. Storytellers are encouraged to prepare a 5-minute story relating to the theme and place their name in the hat. Tellers are drawn at random.

Support Women Thriving Beyond Cancer Diagnoses at AWEAR AFFAIR

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Join cancer survivors celebrating Bravery and Courage with a THE GREATEST SHOWMAN theme for the 17th annual Awear Affair Fashion Show and Luncheon to benefit the Noble Circle Project on Saturday, February 29th from 10am -2pm  at the Ponitz Center at Sinclair Community College. This inspiring and fun event begins with raffle baskets and boutique shopping as more than 20 small business merchants offer a wonderful array of hand-crafted gifts, unique jewelry, home décor, clothing and accessories.

Lunch is served at noon and followed by a fashion show featuring clothing from Zig Zag Gallery, Pieces of Style, and Senses. All models are members of The Noble Circle Project who are intending to thrive beyond their cancer diagnoses.

Please come enjoy good food and entertainment while supporting the programs of Noble Circle for women living with cancer diagnoses.

Since 2004, the annual AWear Affair Fashion Show Luncheon has been held on the last Saturday in February. This highly anticipated event makes it possible for women diagnosed with cancer to participate in the New Sister Program and Project Sisterhood program at no charge. AWear Affair begins at 10:00 am with shopping at local vendors where attendees can explore and purchase items ranging from jewelry, to gourmet foods, to one-of-a-kind apparel and works of art. The luncheon, program, entertainment, and fashion show, – featuring Noble Circle Sisters modeling the newest fashions – begins at noon.

Pre-register for the AWear Affair Fashion Show & luncheon online.  The event will be held in Building 12, the Ponitz Center at Sinclair Community College, 444 W. 3rd Street, Dayton, OH 45402.

About The Noble Circle Project

The Noble Circle Project was founded in 2003 by eight local women coping with their own cancer diagnosis. These courageous women learned how to navigate the treatment process, support each other, and seek out ways to take charge of their cancer journey. They were united in the belief they could use their personal experiences to help other women “thrive” beyond cancer.

The Noble Circle Project is committed to creating an intimate and caring community of women thriving beyond cancer by bringing hope, inspiration, empowerment and well-being through programs focusing on nutritional education, complementary energy techniques, and peer support. The next New Sister Program Retreat is scheduled for March 2020.

For more information visit www.noblecircle.org | (937) 674-5566 | [email protected]

New ARKHOUSE Co. Store to Open in Troy

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ARKHOUSE Co., a quintessential small-town mercantile with modern flair, will open Saturday, Feb. 8, at 233 South Market Street in Troy. The new store will sell home goods, jewelry and accessories with uplifting, Christian messages. Beautiful gift wrap and stationery products will give shoppers a one-stop place to create a meaningful gift.

 

Owners Kevin and Jennifer Smith first opened the ARKHOUSE doors to customers as part of Ark & Echo, a collaborative storefront housing two businesses. The community has been tremendous supporters of ARKHOUSE since the store’s opening four years ago, and as the business has grown, the Smiths believe the time is right to open a storefront exclusively for ARKHOUSE Co.

 

“We have received amazing support from the local community at ArkHOUSE, and we are excited to invest in Troy again with this new stand-alone store,” said Kevin Smith, co-owner of ArkHOUSE Co. “There is so much growth in downtown Troy and along Market Street, and we are proud to be part of that in a new, bigger way while offering customers many of the same brands and products they’ve come to love.”

The new store will reflect Kevin and Jennifer’s classic American style in a space twice the size of the current location. ARKHOUSE Co. will collaborate with local makers and artists whenever possible, while also continuing to carry exclusive items like ARKHOUSE Co. candles and the MUDPIE Collection of home goods.

 

Kevin has designed the new retail space – which formerly housed United Way of Miami County – to embrace historic details like beautiful wooden floors uncovered during renovations. He’s complemented them with new elements like custom wood trim, moldings and furnishings that create a charming and modern experience for customers.

 

The Smith’s husband-and-wife team has a successful business history in Troy as the creators of the original branding and retail space design of Ark & Echo. Kevin and Jennifer also introduced the store’s popular Acts of Random Kindness (ARKs) program, where patrons received a discount for a “scout’s honor” pledge to spread ARKs to others.

 

“We’ve always known we wanted our business to help share kindness in the community,” said co-owner Jennifer Smith. “Our tagline is ‘In this house, we do kindness.’ It’s important to us that kindness is central to our business, and we’re excited to expand that belief and practice at the new store.”

Arkhouse Company

(937) 214-1788

233 South Market Street
Troy, OH 45373

Tuesday- Friday 10am – 6pm
Saturday 10am – 4pm

Del Mar Encore Fellows Initiative Seeks New Host Organizations

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The Dayton Foundation is inviting area nonprofit organizations to apply to host a Del Mar Encore Fellow, beginning in July 2020. The Request for Proposals, which can be found at The Dayton Foundation website, seeks initiatives that address a significant community issue and would benefit from the leadership of an experienced older adult professional – a Del Mar Encore Fellow.  Up to three not-for-profit organizations will be selected as Host Organizations for the new Fellows. Proposals are due Thursday, March 19, 2020.

Nearly a dozen organizations have hosted Fellows since 2016, including the Dayton Metro Library, Learn to Earn Dayton and St. Mary Development Corporation. The Fellows’ projects have included work on increasing low-income seniors’ access to health care through technology; creating volunteer-led Homework Help programs at area library branches; and researching challenges to building a stable home healthcare workforce. Because the Fellows come with a lifetime of experience and skills, they bring a wealth of additional resources to the Host organizations.

“Having a Del Mar Encore Fellow on your team gives you access to a seasoned, but also objective, professional,” said Celine O’Neill, retired executive director of Brunner Literacy Center. “It is easy as an executive director to begin to see the world solely within your organizational context. A Del Mar Encore Fellow broadens that context and provides you with other points of view and ways of engaging reality, both within and outside your organization.”

Prospective Host Organizations are invited to attend an information session scheduled for Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 3:00-4:30 p.m. at The Dayton Foundation, 1401 S. Main Street, Suite 100, Dayton, OH 45409. For additional information or to RSVP for the information session, please contact Noreen Willhelm, Senior Fellow, at [email protected] or (937) 225-9949.

 

About the Del Mar Encore Fellows Initiative

The Del Mar Encore Fellows Initiative was launched in 2016, thanks to a $1 million gift from Del Mar Healthcare and its DMH-Fund of The Dayton Foundation. Since 2010, this fund has awarded more than $2.2 million in grants to Dayton-area nonprofit organizations that serve the needs of older adults.

Through this pilot program, skilled, older professionals serve as Fellows with social-purpose organizations to help advance a mission-focused initiative or project. The organizations and projects were selected based on community need, an ability to create systemic change, opportunities for collaborations and identified funding.