Volunteer
As a volunteer-based organization, it’s our volunteers that make our work possible and so we’re committed to training, empowering and caring for our volunteers.
Most of our volunteers are members of bereaved families who have first-hand experience of what it’s like to lose a child. Their loss has opened their hearts to greater compassion and service, and their love and remembering of their child has inspired them to “give back” by serving other families who are dealing with the very difficult experience of the death of a child at any age.
This page shares our Guiding Principles of Volunteerism; to give you a sense of our focus and our values, to help you decide whether you’d like to volunteer with the MISS Foundation. Give it a read and if you’d like to apply to volunteer, then fill out this application form and we’ll start getting to know each other and exploring the best way that you can make a contribution within our organization.
Take Initiative
Are you interested in taking the initiative to be a part of or help the MISS Foundation in some way:
- Want to host a local Kindness Walk?
- Can you help fundraise or educate in your area?
- Want to host a local event for Kindness Project Day?
- Interested in arranging for local restaurants or business to sponsor MISS Foundation?
- Interested in walking 100 miles in honor of a child you love who died?
- Want to know how you can help with local, state, or federal legislation?
- Want to become part of one of our committees?
- Want to arrange for a group of co-workers to fundraise or give via United Way to MISS Foundation?
Please share your ideas and interest! Contact the MISS Foundation: info@missfoundation.org
Donate
The MISS Foundation depends largely on corporate, individual, and community contributions to serve the increasing number of bereaved families seeking our help. The MISS Foundation has provided essential, high-level, quality care for bereaved families throughout the world for the past two decades. Yet sadly, many in the corporate world do not contribute because they fear a perceived negative image of being associated with a tragedy like child death. Fortunately, a few in the corporate world have stepped up to ensure that families who have suffered the loss of a child receive much-needed support. For companies like KONG – a dog and cat toy company – their contributions provide necessary funding to continue MISS Foundation programs. Sponsors and donors such as KONG want to make sure the foundation serves grieving parents in the best way possible.
“We do it because it is the right thing to do. With all the success we have experienced, it’s only right to give back,” states KONG President Kathy “KD” Frueh.
What will you do today to give back in your own way?