A turn-key event to raise awareness of the power of hospice and raise funds to support your mission.

Featuring live performances by Grammy-nominee Karen Taylor-Good and powerful testimonials by local hospice supporters, this free one-hour program will make an indelible impression on your guests and develop hundreds of ambassadors for hospice.

At Ministry Home Care, we've raised $500,000 in support for our hospice services, and created strong anticipation for each year's new program. Guests attend year after year, bringing their friends, family members and co-workers along to learn more about hospice every time. Each year, we introduce a new program - a new message about hospice - within the same popular format.

The doors open an hour before the program begins with a cash bar and social hour. Precisely on time, we begin the program which incorporates an MC who ties together the speakers and musical performances, bringing the audience to an emotional high where they're invited to make a contribution to support our local services. Table Hosts distribute the pledge cards, guests return their completed cards to their Host, and the evening ends with an upbeat song in celebration of the gifts hospice provides each and every day.

During the program, guests are seated at round tables with linen table cloths. They are treated to delicious appetizers and commune together while they take in the powerful message of the evening. Afterward, they have the opportunity to mingle, share their enthusiasm for the program, and meet Karen.

You can choose from any of the programs available. Each program follows the same format, but with a different message and new original music from Karen. When you reserve the program, you will receive a complete binder with all the information you need to hold a successful Gift of Hospice event in your community. The binder will include:

• A complete timeline and task list for planning the Event
• A detailed manual to guide you through each step of Event planning
• Contact information and instructions for booking Karen Taylor-Good
• A complete script for the one-hour program, with the exception of local testimonials
• An audio CD of songs included in program (for planning purposes only, not for use at the Event)
• Beautiful professionally-designed templates for all printed materials
• The use of prop kit, free of charge (only applicable to GOH Program 1)
• Email and telephone support throughout your planning process

No risk! If you don't raise at least $10,000 in gross income from this phenomenal event, you pay Ministry Home Care nothing more than your initial deposit of $375.

Karen Taylor-Good's performance fees are just 15% of gross income from the event, in addition to expenses. So regardless of your income, she will take just 15% up to a maximum that equals her usual fee for a keynote event. Karen has seen the power of this event, and shares our confidence that you will experience great success with your event.

Click for more information of each of our highly-acclaimed Gift of Hospice programs - then choose the one you'd like to start with. If you already know, just go to Let's Do It and get started!

1: The Gift of Hospice: Making Every Moment Matter

An overview of the many gifts hospice brings to the communities we serve - life closure, holistic care, acknowledgement of the value of life, care of volunteers, and grief support.

2: The Gift of Hospice: Believing in Life

While touching on the main points of hospice, this program utilizes testimonials that highlight some very important aspects that many aren't aware of, including:

• How the patient and family drive the care that is provided
• How hospice cares for the entire family, in addition to the patient
• How hospice can help patients and families clarify the emotional and spiritual aspects of their lives
• How the grief support provided by hospice can help people heal

Each testimonial ends in an "I believe" statement that ties the whole program together in the theme.

3: The Gift of Hospice: Navigating Life's Journey

This program clarifies the hospice experience using travel metaphors - explaining that hospice does not take the driver's seat on this final journey of life, but rather sits beside the patient and family in the passenger seat - helping to navigate the path ahead.

4: The Gift of Hospice: Embracing the Elephant

The intriguing title gets many to the door, and the theme helps guests to understand the power of facing the "elephant in the room" - the topics that are hard to cope with, but necessary for life closure. The program incorporates the many aspects of hospice that assist patients and families in achieving peace at the end of life.

For more information, please contact:

Liz Sheahan, BSW, MA, Community Outreach Coordinator
866.740.1166, toll free
715.843.2703, direct
Liz.Sheahan@ministryhealth.org