Case Study Analysis: Maitri AIDS Hospice The Maitri AIDS Hospice has increased in donor numbers, but decreased in donation amounts. To increase donation amounts and motivate current donors, Maitri should strengthen relationships with their current donors and implement a capital campaign. Current Individual Donor Strategies Maitri AIDS Hospice has engaged their donors through three key events: dinners at Maitri, the student art sale (later turned permanent art gallery), and Maitri retreats. The dinners at Maitri introduced potential new donors to the Maitri AIDS Hospice (prospect identification and cultivation); the student art sale then art gallery provided a large fundraising opportunity (solicitation); and the Maitri Retreats fostered relationships with current donors, offering recognition (stewardship).1 Donations primarily came from the residents of San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood and gay men. In general, gay men donated heavily …show more content…
Maitri needs to focus on the cultivating relationships with their current donors. Maitri should ask donors if they would be capable of taking on more responsibility.3 Currently, select donors have a hand in bringing in potential donors through the dinners at Maitri. However, the potential donors may only come to those dinners and submit donations out of obligation to their friend/colleague, the Maitri donor sponsoring the dinner. Maitri donors can do more; perhaps assist outside of a fundraising capacity. They can head up a special project or assist in day-to-day operations. These donors may have their own particular skill sets that may prove to be invaluable to Maitri.4 Not only is stewardship of current donors less costly than seeking new prospects, but it also opens up communication for discussing Maitri’s community
In addition to the MSKCC’s influence for its diversity this organization has also had a tremendous long-standing economic impact nationally and around the world. MSKCC has a revenue of 3.7 billion with a 96% charitable commitment with $3,048 million in charitable services (Forbes, 2016). MSKCC has developed several facilities over the years that not only provide economic development for the community but also various opportunities throughout the nation and world to expand, improve, understand and work towards curing
God tells his children, “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation). Death is one of the most frightening and confusing times a person can go through. Watching a loved one pass away is also one of the hardest trials a person can experience. Many people assume that death is a time of pain and the only thing that they can do is mourn and watch their loved one fade away from the earth. This is wrong. There are ways that people can turn a bad situation to good. Dying doesn’t have to be painful and full of suffering. The County Hospice staff makes sure of this. The Hospice staff not only takes care of passing patients physically, but they also take care of the patients emotionally and spiritually. Hospice staff also plays a key role in helping families during the grieving process.
Although the AIDS quilt is thought of by most to be a mourning device, there are in fact panels in the quilt that actually oppose the idea of mourning. In this section of the quilt, one out of the eight sections clearly stands out. It is one that reads: "Terry Sutton; He hated this quilt…and so do we." This panel, surrounded by the seven more traditional panels shows how although, on a broad level, the quilt is thought of as a non-activist mourning attempt, there are definite aspects of activism that show through despite discourses popularly associated with the quilt.
Hospice focuses on end of life care. When patients are facing terminal illness and have an expected life sentence of days to six months or less of life. Care can take place in different milieu including at home, hospice care center, hospital, and skilled nursing facility. Hospice provides patients and family the tool and resources of how to come to the acceptance of death. The goal of care is to help people who are dying have peace, comfort, and dignity. A team of health care providers and volunteers are responsible for providing care. A primary care doctor and a hospice doctor or medical director will patients care. The patient is allowed to decide who their primary doctor will be while receiving hospice care. It may be a primary care physician or a hospice physician. Nurses provide care at home by vising patient at home or in a hospital setting facility. Nurses are responsible for coordination of the hospice care team. Home health aides provide support for daily and routine care ( dressing, bathing, eating and etc). Spiritual counselors, Chaplains, priests, lay ministers or other spiritual counselors can provide spiritual care and guidance for the entire family. Social workers provide counseling and support. They can also provide referrals to other support systems. Pharmacists provide medication oversight and suggestions regarding the most effective
Most people feel that they should help the needy in some way or another. The problem is how to help them. This problem generally arises when there is a person sitting on the side of the road in battered clothes with a cardboard sign asking for some form of help, almost always in the form of money. Yet something makes the giver uneasy. What will they do with this money? Do they need this money? Will it really help them? The truth of the matter is, it won't. However, there are things that can be done to help the needy. Giving money to a reliable foundation will help the helpless, something that transferring money from a pocket to a man's tin can will never do.
For my service learning project, I will be volunteering at ONHL Hospice. ONHL's mission is to “…improve the quality of life for terminally ill patients and their families through the provision of physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical services...with services from the heart” (ONHL Hospice). Compassionate end of life care for the terminally ill is the hallmark of hospice. A specially trained interdisciplinary team improves the quality of life of the dying by caring for their unique needs as well as the needs of their families. Providing medical care by a physician and nurse; furnishing medication, supplies, and equipment; offering a social worker, home health aide, and volunteer to assist with practical or personal care are some
Action: To provide LGBTQ Veterans with holistic care, attended the “The Camouflage Closet” presentation which provided her with the comprehensive training she uses in providing care to these Veterans. On one occasion, she was able to utilize the skills she used from this training to provide care to a male Veteran and his husband who identified as being gay and Jewish. Outcome: Both the patient and spouse were amazed and grateful for the care she provided. Sustainability: Shared this information with her coworkers to raise awareness and give strategies for being sensitive to the needs of LGBTQ
Compare hospice to palliative care and describe the similarities and differences of the two in terms of community health nursing. (12 pts) Palliative care is used when someone is diagnosed with a serious or chronic illness and they are having side effects from the illness and are nearly at the end of their life, they will need to be referred to palliative care to help them in relieving and preventing the suffering. Palliative care is not limited it can be conservative or aggressive. Hospice care is when a person has a terminal illness that is advanced and there is no more cure or treatment, and are going to die in six months or less they then refer to Hospice care to attend their emotional and spiritual needs and helps to relieve their suffering and improve their quality of life. (12 pts).
Salil Shetty. 2016. Making Change, the Challenge and The Potential ( speech to IAVE World Volunteer Conference). Retrieved from
My approach to Red Cross service has also changed at the grassroots level. Shortly after my final chemotherapy treatment, I was dispatched to a residential fire in central Fort Worth. At the scene, I discovered a mother crouched at the curb silhouetted against her smoldering house. While listening to the mother, I learned that she lost her thirteen-year-old son in the blaze. Though I had rehabilitated disaster victims before my illness, this event carried a different significance. While I was learning to live anew, I comforted a mother coping with death. My conversation with the mother compelled me to re-confront my journey with cancer. By reflecting on my own anxieties, still real and familiar, I empathized with the mother on an equal plan rather than that of victim and volunteer. Through service, I now probe my own experiences to assist and empower others.
S. Kay Tommbs presentation “Living and Dying with Dignity,” focused on the worth and dignity of the those who are dying from an illness. It covered the importance of maintaining both worth and dignity in an inevitable ending, being death.
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I interacted with more people than I could count - all the while astounded by how many clinics were needed to give the underprivileged basic medical needs. This required participation in interviews on patient history and diagnostic discussions with supervising physicians. Daily, I saw the eyes of the little boy in young patients; I was reminded that it was possible to make a difference in these other countries. I had another opportunity that I did not with the little boy: I was able to form relationships with many of the terminally ill patients while serving tea and talking in hopes of boosting
Because of this holistic take on the world, I have always immersed myself in plans that support the aid of both my local community and the international community. As President of the Abbey Park Student Council, I have spearheaded and organized various efforts to fundraise and support various initiatives such as the Canadian Cancer Society and Kicks for Change at a local level, and Doctors Without Borders at an international level, where we raised a total of $50,000
Alexandria Scott, or “Alex” as she was called, was born in 1996, in Connecticut. Diagnosed with neuroblastoma at age 1, her parents were informed that she had a type of rare childhood cancer that had no cure. One day, at age 4, Alex informed her parents that she wanted to start a lemonade stand to help raise money “so the doctors could help other kids like the doctors had helped me.” Alex and her older brother Patrick put her plan into action and in July 2000, Alex’s first lemonade stand raised $2000 towards finding a cure for pediatric cancer (Fuhrman, 2006, p. 48). Alex’s innocent request to help others led to the Alex’s Lemonade Foundation. During Alex’s life, the foundation raised more than $1 million towards finding a cure for cancer. Alex died at age 8, on August 1, 2004 but her lemonade stand still