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New SHARE board and president
plan for senior housing
by Malka Geffen
n November, Senior Housing and
Retirement Enterprises announced its
new board of directors and positioned
itself for a busy future. “I feel like
we’ve been a little missing from the
community,” said Matthew Lashua,
SHARE vice president. “We now have the
right people in place and new energy.”
The nonprofit organization was started
in 2001 by a handful of community activists
who were interested in the housing needs of
sexual minority elders. Lashua is one of the
many who see value in planning ahead as
well as doing important work for seniors
now. “Even though I’m 40 and retirement is
way off, I believe this generation right now
is pre-Stonewall and have different stories,”
he said. “They’ll go back in the closet,
ostracized by nursing home attendants and
their peers, and shouldn’t have to. These
people deserve our attention. A very wise
person said, ‘Without our seniors and
children, we don’t have a past or future.’ ”
Daniel Torrence is the new SHARE president.
Daniel Torrence, SHARE’s new presi
dent, is the regional director for an assisted living
SHARE’S work plan indicates some serious
company and has worked in community-based
strategy implementation coming down the line. In
housing and long-term care since 1995. “I read
phase one, the organization will develop a market
about SHARE in a Just Out article about Mary
ing plan for Brindley Hall, which will be congre
Beth [Brindley] and Evelyn [Hall], our founding
gate housing for seniors in an apartment complex.
mothers. 1 called Mary Beth, went to a meeting,
A waiting list of elders ready to move into this
met the gang and have been on the board since,”
complex will be established. Next, an apartment
said Torrence, who secured the group its nonprofit
building will be purchased that has common space
status in 2003.
and approximately 60 units in the Portland metro
The list of accomplishments from 2006 shows area. “The place would need a little rehab, and
an organization on the move. SHARE acquired
we’d like it to be in area where we could start
and equipped its first office space in Southeast
acquiring property around it or have space to build
Portland. The organization also sought property
a community in a campus-type setting that offers
and considered one option in Gresham, but
meals and activities and serves as a social outlet
ultimately decided it was t<x> remote for SHARE’s
and resource," s?id Torrence. Phase one will end as
objectives. “We’re kxiking at serving an isolated
the apartments are filled with sexual minority
population, and we didn’t want to locate them way
elders from the waiting list. Phase two involves the
out in the suburbs where they would be more
implementation of SHARE Commons, a continu
isolated,” said Torrence.
ing care retirement community.
SHARE increased its visibility in 2006 with
“There’s always been the passion to see a com
booths at both Portland and Vancouver Pride
munity come to life,” Torrence said. “There’s more
festivals. Significant fund raising was achieved
of an urgency now because we’re realizing that if
through its second annual “Share an Evening with
we don’t kick it in gear, people are going to lose
SHARE” swing dance gala and direct mail appeals.
interest and we’ll be passed by.” It was important to
SHARE also received a grant from Equity
Torrence and others to work toward its goals as a
Foundation for $1,300. Finally, the group held its
nonprofit with affordability as its focus. “It’s just a
second annual meeting where the board of direc matter of time before for-profits start coming in,”
tors met with the SHARE advisory board, which
Torrence adds. “We ain’t getting any younger—
includes Portland Mayor Tom Potter, City
baby fxximers are coming, and the numbers of
Commissioner Sam Adams and Multnomah
those who need to be served is staggering.”
County Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey.
Torrence said that the goal is to acquire a
According to Torrence, 2007 will be the year
property as s<x>n as possible and begin serving an
SHARE gets out into the community to do effective
elder population that currently lives in retirement
outreach and build support through other organiza housing who go hack in the closet to feel safe. “We
tions and with city officials and donors. “I need to owe it to the GLBT Portland community to get
this thing up and running.” ®
build fund-raising capacity and board capacity and
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contract with an affordable housing developer and
move the organization forward," he says. “There’s no
reason why we can’t be breaking grixind and making
affordable senior housing for the sexual minority
community in the next few years.”
For information about the SENIOR HtXJSING AND
R etirement E nterprises board meeting Jan 20
or about volunteer opportunities, call 503-224-8881
or visit www.sharepdx.org.
MARTY DAVIS
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