Recent Programs and Projects
- Claude Pepper Oratory Competition
- To sponsor, along with the Florida State University Speech and Debate Program, the First Annual Claude Pepper Oratory Competition. Students from Florida State University were invited to research, prepare, and present a persuasive speech celebrating the works, achievements, and goals of Claude Pepper.
- National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington, DC
- To sponsor a dinner table at the National Academy's 10th Annual Conference.
- Tallahassee Senior Center, Tallahassee, FL
- To help with a program to provide care for Alzheimer's patients on Saturdays which enables their caregivers to have time to take care of their personal needs.
- Florida Disabled Outdoors, Miami, FL
- To support the association's promotion for accessible outdoor recreation for people with disabilities.
- Commemoration of the Passage of Minimum Wage Law
- To hold a symposium to examine the affect of the minimum wage on employment workers and industry upon its 60th anniversary.
- National Council on the Aging, Washington, DC
- To present annually the Claude Pepper Award for Excellence in Community-based Long-term Care. This award recognizes professionals who are committed to the development of a continuum of service to enable older people to live at home with dignity, independence and autonomy.
- Claude Pepper Center, Tallahassee, FL
- To provide support for the Center's budget, construction, furnishings, and donor plaque.
- Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
- To develop the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy, provide an endowment for a Professorship in Sociology in 1991 and two Distinguished Professorships in 1993, and an endowment for the Claude Pepper Center. The Foundation also provides the annual Mildred Webster Pepper Design awards to fashion design students.
- Pepper Foundation Project
- Celebration of Senior Wellness Event. An event to encourage physical activity and healthful living among seniors. It included competitions for entrants 55 or older, a health fair and door prizes for all attendees.
- Pepper Foundation Project
- National Issues Forum Public Policy Institute. A two-day intergenerational forum to discuss the future of Social Security and Medicare.
- Florida Commission on Aging with Dignity, Tallahassee, FL
- To help develop a system of health and long term care that will maintain the human dignity of the elderly and prepare for the challenges younger Floridians will encounter both now and when they retire.
- Pepper Foundation Project
- Hip Fracture Prevention Project. The study included at-risk seniors and incorporated a multi-disciplinary community-based, team approach which addressed each of the risk factors responsible for falls and related, sometimes fatal, injuries.