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.
Juntos con Esperanza hosted our first community outreach event on August 20, 2019 at St. John’s Catholic Parish, King City More than 100 people (infants to grandparents) attended our first community outreach event focusing on conversations about death and dying using the GoWish Card Game in English and Spanish. Facilitators at each of the ten participant tables (one English and nine Spanish) guided attendees in the use of the cards and shared
Bench for Bob, Love Letters, and Legacies Bob was a retired psychoanalyst, a VNP as he used to say (very nice person!), and in his spare time an extraordinary woodworker. He was a deep listener, sometimes a consoler, and for many, his wisdom was a life line. Julia lived until 102. Her final act of love was written in her will to express her gratitude through carefully selected gifts to family,
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
CEO Message: October 2018 Dear Friends, We recently held our annual fundraiser at MPCC. It was a wonderful two-day event with an evening Party and auction followed by a stellar day of golf. People joined us to celebrate the Foundation’s impact on our community. As I looked around the room that night, I was struck by the philanthropic people that generously support so many causes in our community. All of us
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’
