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About Santa Ynez Valley Community Outreach and SYV Meals on Wheels

Santa Ynez Valley Community Outreach is a 501c3 non-profit organization (Tax ID #95-316593) encompassing SYV Meals on Wheels, the Buellton Senior Center, our Thrift Shop, Holy Grounds coffee shop, and a free daily Farmers Market. Founded in 1979, SYVCO offers nutrition, housing assistance, transportation, and medical assistance to seniors, Veterans, and low-income families. In addition, for victims of domestic abuse, we offer assistance with permanent housing, counseling, and emergency needs such as temporary housing and sheriff and agency services.  SYVCO is also a liaison for Veterans, including homeless Veterans, who require special assistance so that they can continue to remain in our valley. Currently SYV MOW provides nearly 400 daily “Meals on Wheels” to seniors and Veterans in the Santa Ynez and Los Alamos Valleys.  Eighty percent of these folks are below the poverty line and receive no-cost meals. Yet, we must purchase the food and pay staff to prepare the meals. We made 1,960,000 pounds of food available to those in need in our community in our free Farmers Market last year and currently serve nearly 400 meals each day. Many of our senior and Veteran recipients are homebound and have no family to care for them.  

Buellton Senior Center staff and volunteers not only prepare and deliver nutritious meals but we also provide transportation to medical appointments, stay with the Senior at medical appointments if requested to do so to help with clarity and avoid confusion, and help to provide a security blanket for the seniors who may not have a support system nearby. We sponsor social activities, and operate an equipment closet that loans wheelchairs, walkers, etc. at no cost. Along with providing our seniors with nutritious and tasty food, our volunteer MOW drivers also check in with them daily to make sure they are okay. In addition, the center provides a free Community Kitchen and is a Red Cross Emergency Center. Our only sources of funding are fundraisers, private donations, thrift store and coffee shop income, and some grants and government funding. 

We hope you will become an important sponsor of this fun and exciting event as we celebrate and support SYV Meals on Wheels. Your support is essential so that we may continue to serve the vital needs of hundreds of deserving seniors and Veterans in our community.  In this profound time of rising costs, combined with ever increasing challenges, we appreciate and are seeking your help more than ever before.  Every penny counts and helps to feed a deserving senior. 

Serving the Santa Barbara County Communities of Santa Ynez, Solvang, Ballard, Buellton, Los Olivos, & Los Alamos, California.

Our organization is a 501c3 non-profit organization (Tax ID #95-316593). All  contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.