CEO Message: January 2021 Dear Friends, New beginnings offer hope. I don’t know anyone who wasn’t ready to be done with 2020. However, the pandemic and the immense stressors on families, along with serious societal unrest continues to bring about loss, sorrow, and tragedy in our country. More than ever, we need to work together to create hope and healing. I think to find hope in times of very serious trouble,
CEO Message: October 2020 Dear Friends, Fall is a time of anticipation for traditions and celebrations that we’ve known all our lives. Just thinking about it, we can almost experience the scents and sensations that come along with this season. Starting with the Jewish high holidays, onto playful Halloween and spirited Día de los Muertos, through Christmas, Hanukkah, and all the varied religious and cultural celebrations in December, the season culminates with
CEO Message: July 2020 Dear Friends, A message to you a few months ago was from my living room via video. We all thought that with a short, but disciplined stay-at-home approach, life would have been starting to resemble a version of normalcy by now. Sadly, that is not the case. All of us at HG Foundation are still working remotely and know we are very fortunate to have important work
A Brief but Spectacular Take on Compassionate Care During COVID-19 Dr. Diane Meier is the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care in New York City. As a palliative care specialist, she has an intimate view of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting patients and their loved ones. Meier shares her Brief But Spectacular take on showing compassion during COVID-19. As seen on PBS News Hour Recent News
CEO Message: March 2020 Dear Friends, I began composing this letter towards the end of February, thinking about HOPEGives. But today March 17th, as I return to writing, the world is in a healthcare crisis and we each need to examine how to instill confidence and hope. Our healthcare system will be taxed, and our patience will be tested. At Hospice Giving Foundation, our primary focus is to ensure excellent care for
Juntos con Esperanza hosted our third community outreach event on January 31, 2020 at Holy Trinity Church, Greenfield More than 100 people (children to grandparents) attended our third community outreach event focusing on conversations about death and dying using the GoWish Card Game in Spanish and English. Facilitators at each of the participant tables guided attendees in the use of the cards and shared their table’s top three choices for
Hospice Giving Foundation’s Discover HOPEGives Community Experience held at Hidden Valley Music Seminars, Carmel Valley on Saturday, January 11, 2020 featured great conversations, family friendly activities and crafts, information and resources, and learning about end-of-life care from local doctors. Some participants explored deeper during a 4-hour workshop, GRIEF TO BEAUTY Creating Earth Altars to Honor our Lives and Death with Day Schildkret of Morning Altars.
South County Latino Mobile Resource Center Ribbon Cutting On Friday, November 1, 2019 Pictured right to left: Siobhan Greene, CEO/President, Hospice Giving Foundation; Janet Bessemer, Chamber Manager at King City Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture; and Dwight Wilson CEO/President Central Coast VNA & Hospice. Siobhan Greene, CEO/President of HG Foundation spoke at the ribbon-cutting with the King City Chamber of Commerce and VNA on Friday, November 1st at
Juntos con Esperanza hosted our second community outreach event on October 23, 2019 at First Baptist Church, King City More than 20 people (children to grandparents) attended our second community outreach event focusing on conversations about death and dying using the GoWish Card Game in English and Spanish. Facilitators at each of the participant tables guided attendees in the use of the cards and shared their table’s top three choices
Hope is such a simple, sweet word. We hear it so often. It conjures up warm feelings, melancholy, certainly some level of anticipation. And yet, as words go, it is tough to define, probably because it means something unique to almost everyone. Expressions prompt us to make it easier: “Just have a little hope.” “Don’t give up hope.” “Hope springs eternal.” But those expressions don’t generally get the job done. We each must define what hope means to us and how we go about capturing this elusive hummingbird in our lives.
