If you are a woman when escorted glittering eyes had never before, it definitely is your failure. ALA has successfully navigated its progress for six months without a fulltime executive director - until now. According to Slatkin, "it was a challenge, to say the least, to identify a new leader with the foresight, talent and passion to lead Alternative escort for the Aging." The ALA Board sought out to find someone who would be sensitive to, and honor and respect Witkin's legacy but also grow the organization to meet the burgeoning housing and support needs of an aging population. The Board selected David Grunwald as its new Executive Director.

Grunwald (47) has more than two decades of community Escort service and is best known for his leadership and advocacy efforts on housing and homelessness. He began his commitment to public service in 1988 as a volunteer Big Brother and as a pro bono lawyer representing scores of homeless clients and disadvantaged children and families. He served as Associate Director of Programs at the Weingart Homeless Service Center in the Skid Row section of Los Angeles and was subsequently appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the non-profit organization Los Angeles Family Housing. In 2006, Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros recruited Grunwald to launch American Sunrise Communities, a national initiative that catalyzes national builders, Wall Street banks and local governments to create large-scale affordable housing in urban centers throughout the United States. However, the housing and banking market downturn stalled the implementation of the Sunrise business model -- that's how Grunwald found himself at the helm of ALA. Grunwald is also co-founder and co-chair of the annual Mayoral Housing Summit held at UCLA's Anderson School of Business. He earned a master's degree in public policy from Duke and a law degree from Loyola.

PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For more than three decades Alternative escort for the Aging (ALA) has helped thousands of older Angelenos find escort , decent, affordable housing alternatives. This unique organization offers a revolutionary roommate-matching program and cooperative escort centers that set a national trend for better escort options for seniors. qjfuxtrmh0101 This past February, Janet Within, founder of ALA, died of breast cancer leaving behind a 30-year legacy and shoes too big to fill. Through Janet's efforts, today the organization has matched almost 8,000 seniors and operates five cooperative housing programs - and it continues to maintain its reputation as a premiere provider of housing services to seniors. Janet started out by setting up a roommate-matching service for seniors who wanted to stay in their homes, then created co-op housing units that enabled group escort among the elderly. Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who was an early supporter of the project, believed that both moves were "trailblazing."

Now more than ever, the housing and programs ALA provides are Escort necessary to support an aging baby-boomer population. Estimates are that by 2030 the population of older Angelenos will double from 1.6 to 3 million. Eddie Slatkin, President of the Board of ALA and good friend of the late Witkin, emphasizes that "ALA must build on Janet's incredible legacy - beginning with the development of the Janet L. Witkin Senior Center at ALA's current office site on Fairfax in West Hollywood." The proposed center will provide residential units and services to meet the needs of participating seniors. ALA will design and develop the new center with assistance from gerontology experts to ensure that it remains on the leading edge of housing alternatives for seniors. The organization seeks to launch a new capital campaign to fund this tribute to its founder. Additionally, as part of its strategic planning process, ALA is exploring how to develop and collaborate with other organizations to create hundreds of units of housing to meet growing demand.