Housing Subsidy for Admins in Need (HSAN)

Since its inception, The Trust’s mission has been simple: to assist elderly and needy administrative professionals.

As a result, IAAP, through the Trust, has been able to do something that very few associations have ever done: build and maintain its own retirement center. What’s more, Vista Grande (the world’s only retirement center for administrative professionals) was built entirely through donations to the Trust, with no corporate or association sponsorship.

However, the Trust realizes that not every elderly or needy administrative professional can (or wants to) live at Vista Grande. As a result, in 2003, the Foundation’s Board of Trustees began a new program: the Housing Subsidy for Admins in Need Program.

Through this new service, a retired administrative professional living in a retirement community can receive financial assistance to be used toward housing costs. To qualify, applicants must meet HUD financial guidelines. Assistance can be a part of or all of rent (depending on funds available and need). Here are the Retirement Trust Foundation Housing Assistance and Vista Grande Grant policies as adopted March 20, 2010. To apply for HSAN you need to download, fill out the Financial Assistance Application and follow directions for submitting.

When Della Herring stood up at a meeting of NSA in 1947, she thought it was deplorable that secretaries had no retirement home to call their own. She contributed the first dollar toward such a cause, and today, the Trust has built and maintains just such a center. Through the HSAN Program, we can ensure that Della Herring’s dream lives on.

Like Vista Grande, the HSAN Program is funded through your contributions. Please see your division or chapter RTF chairman to see how you can help.