National Hospice and Palliative Care Month is celebrated every November across the nation to increase public awareness about the benefits of hospice and palliative care. This year’s theme is My Hospice. A Program that Works. A Benefit that Matters. What began as primarily a volunteer-driven, grassroots movement in the 1970’s, hospice is now an integrated part of our nation’s health care delivery system providing care to more than 1.43 million Medicare beneficiaries and their

Dear Friends and Supporters, Nonprofit organizations have a special ingredient. It’s called our Board of Directors. Talented, giving people from the community come forth with their business sense and expertise to offer advice, share relationships, bring perspective, and infuse creativity to bolster the work of non-profits. I often say that my Board is my HR office, my planning department, my financial advisors, my legal counsel, not to mention, my personal moral support team. They

Asking the questions that matter, “What’s important to you?”Dear Friends and Supporters,What question do you hope someone asks you when you are seriously ill? What’s important to you? What makes life meaningful for you? What do you want to ask or say to others? Who should be there?These are big questions. These and many others have been posed to help people come closer to being comfortable with having the Conversation. We capitalize the word ‘Conversation’

Did you know supporting Hospice Giving Foundation by shopping with Amazon is as easy as 1, 2, 3? Visit AmazonSmile at smile.amazon.com. Select Hospice Giving Foundation as your charitable organization. Shop! AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon that lets customers enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices, and convenient shopping features as on Amazon.com. There is no cost to you or fees to HGF for using AmazonSmile. The shopping experience is

May you arise each day with a voice of blessing whispering in your heart. – John O’Donohue, For Belonging Dear Friends, This lovely quote comes from one of my favorite philosophers and poet, the late John O’Donohue.  His language and thoughtful perspective seem to envelop me in emotion and reflection.  During difficult times in my life, I have found solace in his writings. At Hospice Giving Foundation we are graced by wonderful people day in

Their name can be hard to master*, however the Fetherstonhaughs are very easy to admire. Dick and Maria have been married for 67 years, have lived in 15 different cities across the US, and found their way back home to California some 30 years ago, when Dick retired from Pennzoil. Both native Californians, they know the value of working your way up, turning risks into opportunity, and making commitments to causes that resonate in

After 20 years at Natividad Medical Center, Dr. Marc Tunzi has gone to many funerals, had many conversations, and continues to help his patients answer the question, “What is a good death for you?”. A smart kid of Swiss- Italian parents, born at SVMH and raised in Spreckels, he describes going to med school as a series of “happy accidents.” Since science came easily to him, medical school seemed a natural fit. Dr. Tunzi