Help Us Help Others

Donate to the Operating Budget

Monetary donations to Hospice Volunteers Center for Grief and Loss in Mid Coast Maine in any amount support the organization’s efforts to provide free, supportive, unique, non-medical direct care assistance to individuals and families coping with end-of-life issues. Hospice Volunteers is a partner of CHANS home health care agency which provides medical services available through the hospice Medicare benefit. Hospice Volunteers also offers companionship, respite and bereavement support groups to families and crisis intervention to the community. Because it is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization, donations to Hospice Volunteers are fully deductible under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. In order to continue offering free bereavement groups and direct care services we very much depend on charitable contributions from individuals, towns and institutions. Here are some easy ways to give to the Hospice operating budget.

· Memorials to deceased individuals who received our services or who wish to support Hospice generally

· Annual Appeal

· United Way Donor Choice

· Estate and Planned Giving

· Gifts of stocks, annuities etc.

· Donations for an unspecified purpose (for our operating budget)

· Donations for a specific purpose (ie. to support Bereavement Program Services)

· Donate to the Hospice Memorial Garden by buying a granite memorial brick to commemorate a loved one who has passed away

To make a donation, a check payable to Hospice Volunteers may be sent to Hospice Volunteers, 45 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick, Maine 04011. If this is a memorial, please note the specific person’s name in the memo line of the check. If you would prefer to make a cash donation, please deliver to the above address.

Donate to the Endowment Fund

Hospice Volunteers has an Endowment Fund to augment the annual operating budget and to help sustain current and future programs. The Endowment Fund is guided by investment principles and stewarded by an endowment and investment committee which provides a full report of all the fund’s activities to the Board of Directors on a quarterly basis. One can easily pledge funds to the Hospice Endowment Fund on either a monthly, quarterly or annual basis over a period of from one to five years. For more information about giving the to Endowment, please contact Hospice Volunteers for an Endowment Fund pledge card either by email at hospvols@blazenetme.net or call 207-729-3602 or write us at Hospice Volunteers, 45 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick, Maine 04011

Donate to the Redmond Resource Center Lending Library

The Hospice Volunteer Redmond Resource Center and lending library offers written material, books, magazines, audiotapes, videos, DVDs, Internet access and brochures that help our clients to find information and social service agencies in our area.  Hospice Volunteers trains volunteers and purchases materials for the lending library of the Center, with resource selections appropriate across the age continuum and focusing on issues of grief and bereavement.  Capable volunteers staff a reference desk to help people understand their options and make referrals to local, state, and national service organizations.  The general public is welcome to use these resources free of charge.

Currently,there is no budget for purchase of new materials for the library.  If this is an aspect of Hospice that appeals to you, please relate to it financially by donating a gift to the Hospice Library. Checks made payable to Hospice Volunteers with a note in the memo line specifying "Redmond Resource Center" will insure that your donation benefits the Hospice Library.  Please send the check to :

Hospice Volunteers

45 Baribeau Drive

Brunswick, ME 04011

Many thanks for your generosity in advance!

Donations come in many forms out of the generosity and good intentions of our members, friends and volunteers. If the above options don’t work for you, please consider another way of helping us to help others.

• Donate In-kind goods and services
• Donate specifically to the Hospice Library/Redmond Resource Center
• Donate specifically to continuing educational programs in the community
• Donate your time to administrative activities at the Hospice House as a Friend of Hospice
• Donate specifically or unspecifically but please donate!

To express interest or for further information, please contact:

Hospice Volunteers

207-729-3602 or hospvols@blazenetme.net