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As a non-profit, community based organization whose services are
all FREE, WomenCARE relies on the volunteer efforts and financial contributions
of individuals and institutions. Donations are tax deductible and
can be made directly to WomenCARE online, by calling us at (831) 457-2273, or
by sending a check to: WomenCARE 1001 41st Avenue Santa Cruz, CA
95062 Volunteer Volunteers are at the heart of
WomenCARE. Volunteers make it possible for us to survive and thrive. Through
the generous gifts of time and support from our volunteers, WomenCARE is able
to offer the many FREE services that are provided to women with cancer and their
friends and families. Please call WomenCARE at (831) 457-2273 to contribute as
a volunteer. WomenCARE
is seeking SISTERS OFFERING SUPPORT volunteers.If
you are a cancer survivor, youve had an experience, an education that no
woman ever wants, but the wisdom and insight you have gained might be a precious
gift to another woman. In ever increasing numbers, newly diagnosed women are requesting
the valuable support of women who have walked before them on the cancer journey. We
would love to have you join our WomenCARE team as a peer support volunteer. You
must be at least one year beyond your own diagnosis AND treatment. For
more information, please call LaVerne: 457-2273
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Volunteer
positions and internship opportunities are available in the following programs:
- Certified Bodywork Practitioners: Massage, energy work, acupuncture,
yoga, and related services.
- Licensed Body Care Providers: make
up, make overs, hair care.
- Office Assistance (4 hours a week minimum):
Volunteers provide phone counseling and resource referral for clients, work on
special projects, and help with general maintenance of services.
- Practical
Support (1 - 3 hours a week): Volunteers provide meals, child care, transportation,
light housekeeping, and related practical support for women who are receiving
cancer treatment.
- Sisters Offering Support (SOS): Trained cancer
survivors offer one-on-one peer support to a newly diagnosed woman with any kind
of cancer.
- Speakers Bureau: Trained speakers offer education and
outreach to the community.
- Special Events and Special Projects
- Support Group Facilitation (4 - 8 hours a month): Volunteers need
not be licensed therapists to provide structure and guidance for groups where
women with cancer and their families explore their feelings and receive understanding
support.
For more information about each program, please call us at:
(831) 457-2273 or e-mail our Director of Volunteer Services at: volunteer@womencaresantacruz.org
Volunteer Voices
I'm inspired by the strength and tenacity I see in the
faces and hear in the voices of the caregivers in my group. I love working with
them. I was one myself for too many years. I want to share what I know with them.
My wife's spirit lives through my work at WomenCARE. --Andy
Todd, Friends and Family Support Group Facilitator WomenCARE
is truly a grass roots organization: It comes from the community, and goes back
to the community. You can really feel the heart that everybody puts into it.
-- Maribel Cuervo, Entre Nosotras Facilitator I
continue to be enriched and inspired by the women I have worked with at WomenCARE,
and I've made a lot of good friends too. -- Sylvia Brown, cancer survivor
and long time versatile volunteer As agencies
go, WomenCARE is warmer, more compassionate. Other organizations I've dealt with
were more corporate, less personal. They offered resources, but not the amazing
connections women so quickly find here... I'm rewarded by being here... It's very
special to be involved in WomenCARE. -- Maggie Tranchina, cancer survivor
and 3+ year office volunteer Donate In
1992, five women made a decision that would transform lives. They didn't know
where they would find the time, the energy, or the money to create an organization
like WomenCARE. They acted anyway, knowing that without their passion and strength
to make a change, women living with cancer would continue to suffer in isolation. Throughout
its history, WomenCARE has been blessed with generous and quiet angels. They rarely
take center stage; they are in the wings supporting our programs with their gifts
of time, energy, and resources. As a non-profit, community based organization
whose services are all FREE, WomenCARE relies on these contributions from both
individuals and institutions. We feel deep gratitude for all the gifts that
have passed through our small office, for all the warmth those gifts have engendered,
for all the ways those gifts have made it possible for healing to happen in the
lives of so many women and loved ones over the years. We invite you to get
involved and create unique gifts of your own. Here are some ideas: Donate
Your Car or Other VehicleDo you have a car you want to get rid of?
a truck? an RV? a motorcycle? a boat? You could get an IRS tax deduction and
WomenCARE would get a percentage of the proceeds from its sale. Click on the
link to find out how!cars4causes.net Connie
Batten LegacyA special fund has been created to honor Connie Batten,
WomenCARE’s Executive Director and Clinical Supervisor from 1998-2005. It is a
restricted fund that will designate your contribution to train volunteers for
our Sisters Offering Support (SOS) program. These trained volunteers are at least
a year out of their own diagnosis and treatment (western medical, complementary,
or both), and are matched with a newly diagnosed woman, offering peer support.
It is an opportunity for the newly diagnosed woman to gain wisdom and strength
from the experience of a woman who has already navigated these rough waters. To
give to this fund, click "Donate" and enter "Connie Batten Legacy"
in the "Purpose" line. Birthday/Holiday DonationsCarolyn
Coleman: "As my birthday approached last December, I felt blessed to have
reached fifty and to be healthy. At the same time, I had been close to several
people who had dealt with cancer and for whom WomenCARE had provided a vital link
in the community. It's so important to have community that I invited fifty friends
to help me celebrate life as well as honor those who have died by donating to
WomenCARE on my birthday." Deb Abbott: "A few years ago, I stopped
giving Christmas gifts to family and friends who had more than enough 'stuff.'
I started donating the money I would have spent to organizations such as WomenCARE
where the need is real and where I know every penny will be well spent. I send
a card to my family and friends explaining the gift in their name. Many of these
folks have also started making holiday contributions instead of buying 'stuff,'
which multiplies both the gift and my pleasure in this new tradition." Plan
A Benefit Here's what some folks have done or are doing...Hendrik
Meerman, a locally-based swimmer, swam across the English Channel in September,
2006, to raise money for WomenCARE. Though only 21 miles across at its
narrowest point, fewer people have swum across the English channel than have climbed
to the top of Mount Everest. Due to the cold water, unpredictable weather, strong
currents, and shipping traffic, crossing the English Channel is considered to
be the ultimate swim challenge. To donate in support of this special effort
to raise funds for WomenCARE, please send checks to: WomenCARE, 1001 41st Avenue,
Santa Cruz, CA 95062 and indicate "English Channel Swim" on the check.
Program SupportYou can also direct a gift to one of our
programs or services such as Entre Nosotras (Latina Outreach), Sisters Offering
Support, The Peer Navigator Project, or the WomenCARE library. Whether a one-time,
a monthly, or an annual gift, program support allows you to help a particular
WomenCARE service grow. To give to one of these programs, click "Donate"
and enter program name in the "Purpose" line. Adopt WomenCAREMary
Ann Kaplan, past President, Soroptomist
International Capitola-By-The-Sea: "Our organization chose WomenCare
as the main focus for our fundraisers and volunteer time because we value WomenCARE's
positive approach to healing, because WomenCARE really does help, and because
WomenCARE serves women with all kinds of cancer." This service club has helped
print our newsletter and a guidebook for newly diagnosed women, sponsored a bowling
team, given us a copy machine, and provided many valuable hours of volunteer time.
We appreciate their invitation that we call them whenever we have a need for their
help. Joyce Nordquist, Women
Lawyers of Santa Cruz County: "In 1993, a panel of women lawyers formed
WomenCARE Advocates because we valued the work WomenCARE is doing in our community.
We have provided help with non-profit incorporation for the organization, and
with wills and durable powers of attorney, insurance and landlord/tenant issues
for individual clients." Corporate Matching Gift ProgramsYour
employer may be willing to match your personal donation to WomenCARE. This can
double or triple your contribution. Hundreds of companies, large and small, have
Corporate Matching Gift Programs. Follow these
steps to request a matching gift from your employer: - 1. Ask the human
resources representative where you work if there is a charitable Matching Gift
program.
- If the answer is "yes", ask for a Matching Gift Form
and complete your portion. If the answer is "no", talk to the human
resources director and suggest the idea.
- Include the completed and signed
matching gift form with your next donation to WomenCARE.
- WomenCARE will
verify your gift and return the form to your company, which will then issue a
matching gift contribution toWomenCARE.
United Way GivingWhile
WomenCARE is not an official United Way designee, you can "write in"
WomenCARE as the organization to which your donation is directed. Memorial
GiftsFor several years the Joyce Halinar Memorial Fund underwrote
a biannual Enrichment Series for WomenCARE's support group facilitators. It was
started by Marni Kamzan, a loving friend who said: "Joyce [Halinar] was a
good friend and teacher. I miss her a lot. The support groups at WomenCARE meant
so much to her. I want to set up a memorial fund in her name to help your facilitators."
You could set up a similar fund in memory of your dear friend or family member. Bequests
Bequests become a legacy that endures. Through our affiliation with the
Planned Giving Center at the Community
Foundation of Santa Cruz, WomenCARE can help generous people make long-term
gifts that will ensure that women living with cancer will benefit from our services
for years to come. With a gift of long-term appreciated securities, you pay no
capital gains on the transfer and you are entitled to a tax deduction based on
the full current market value of the stock. Giving Plans
- Direct Donation: A cash gift that has immediate value
- Living
Trust: A trust you establish to take effect in your lifetime
- Life
Insurance: A gift of an old or new policy with WomenCARE named as beneficiary
- Retirement
Plan: An appointment of WomenCARE as remainder beneficiary after your lifetime
- Charitable
Trust: Call to find out more about them.
Donations are tax deductible
and can be made directly to WomenCARE by sending your check to: WomenCARE
1001 41st Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062 Please call us at (831) 457-2273
if you would like us to help you design a giving plan. Foundation
Support Funding for WomenCARE is also provided by the
following foundations, whose support we gratefully acknowledge: the
Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County WomenCARE is funded in part
by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County. Founded in 1982, the Community
Foundation of Santa Cruz County is a public, nonprofit organization created by
area residents as a permanent resource for the entire county. Its mission is to
promote philanthropy to make Santa Cruz County a better place to live, now and
in the future. This page was last updated 6/16/10.
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