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6 people are interested
Bereaved family conference assistance
ORGANIZATION: THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS INC
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
6 people are interested
The Compassionate Friends is a nationwide nonprofit organization providing support to families that have lost a child. Each year, a national conference is held where approximately 1,000 families come together to find hope and healing.
We desperately need help in making this conference a success. There are multiple opportunities:
- Tuesday: Drivers with SUVs, Vans, or Pickup Trucks to pickup stored items to bring to hotel
- Wednesday: Conference bags need filled with items such as tissues, journals, etc that have already been donated
- Wednesday: Volunteers with hand trucks to help move boxes.
- Wednesday: Help with folding t-shirts.
- Wednesday: Assistance with setting up displays such as the hug booth
- Thursday: Help in printing name tags from our computer
- Friday: mid-morning set-up centerpieces on tables in ballroom
- Saturday early evening: Set up centerpieces on tables in ballroom
- Sunday: need 30 volunteers to assist on the Walk-to-Remember standing throughout the walk route guiding families
- Sunday morning: help with moving registration, t-shirts, and walk bibs to walk-start (approximately 7am Sunday).
- Sunday morning: needs lots of volunteers to help break down displays and pack boxes
- Throughout the event: need a volunteer photographer
More opportunities with THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS INC
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS INC
Location:
48660 Pontiac Trail, #930808, Wixom, MI 48393, US
Mission Statement
The mission of The Compassionate Friends: When a child dies, at any age, the family suffers intense pain and may feel hopeless and isolated. The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.
Description
The Compassionate Friends was founded over 40 years ago when a chaplain at the Warwickshire Hospital in England brought together two sets of grieving parents and realized that the support they gave each other was better than anything he, as a chaplain, could ever say or provide. Meeting around a kitchen table, the Lawleys and the Hendersons were joined by a bereaved mother and the chaplain, Simon Stephens, and The Society of the Compassionate Friends was born. The Compassionate Friends jumped across the ocean and was established in the United States and incorporated in 1978 in Illinois.
Each chapter, along with the supporting National Office, is committed to helping every bereaved parent, sibling, or grandparent who may walk through our doors or contact us.
Today TCF has nearly 700 chapters serving all 50 states plus Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam, that offer friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, siblings, grandparents, and other family members during the natural grieving process after a child has died. Around the world more than 30 countries have a Compassionate Friends presence, encircling the globe with support so desperately needed when the worst has happened.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
800 Washington Ave.St. Louis, MO 63101
DATE POSTED
June 6, 2018
SKILLS
- Office Management
- Administrative Support
- Delivery
- Customer Service
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- As much or as little as anyone can help.