Donation Opportunities

If you are interested in donating to Stein Hospice, please contact Stein Hospice at 800-625-5269 for more information. Every gift we receive enhances the care we are able to give our patients and their families. A grieving child, a family in crisis over the loss of a loved one, someone who need subsidized or free care - all are helped by the generosity of people like you.

Your gifts support our high quality of service provided to our patients and also makes it possible for us to provide bereavement services to children and adults in the community who have lost a loved one regardless of whether that loved one died in hospice.

Gifts in Memory or In Honor

Often, families specify "memorials to Stein Hospice in lieu of flowers" in funeral announcements. Many people make annual memorial contributions in memory of their loved one or to commemorate a special occasion.

Contributions "in memory of" or "in honor of" someone can be made by check or credit card. If by check:
Make your check payable:
Stein Hospice
Mailing Address:
1200 Sycamore Line
Sandusky, Ohio 44870

On the memo line write "in memory of" or "in honor of" and put the person's name. Include a note with your check letting us know which family member you want us to notify, along with their address, and we will send them a hand-written card notifying them of your thoughtful gesture. The amount of your gift will not be disclosed.

Click here to download Donation Form

Click here to complete a secure Online Donation Form

"I wish I could do more."

Those are the words that accompany so many of the gifts we receive. The truth is that there are dozens of ways for friends to "do more" for our future - if gifts are carefully planned. Gift planning is an art that combines financial planning, estate planning and tax planning techniques to enable friends to make gifts of surprising significance, often with dramatic tax and financial rewards.

For more information on how you can contribute, please contact Stein Hospice at 419-625-5269.

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25 Year Plan

Introduction
The Next 25 Year Campaign is a three-year campaign ending in December 2010. This major campaign was undertaken to create a firm foundation to meet future funding needs for expansion, strengthening staff and technological initiatives. The Goal of the campaign is to raise $5 million over and above our annual fundraising requirements. Your donation will help us meet our goal and fund these important initiatives. We invite you to read the full text of the campaign below. We will be happy to discuss recognition opportunities.

Objectives
Our objectives are listed in random order, but are interlinked in their support and dependence upon each other:

1. Strengthen — staff and facilities
2. Enhance — quality of services and value to patients and families
3. Expand — existing and new programs into the community and “outside our front doors”

The complexity of patient care has increased tenfold in the last decade as people live longer and as a result, incur multiple conditions that require a highly skilled nursing staff to manage symptomatic pain. Nurses are in short supply and therefore, we must help “grow” our nursing staff by providing educational support through time and money. Major improvements for in-patient care require constant facility management and upgrades.

Enhancing the quality of services and value to patients, means that a stronger staff, educated to the needs of a larger, ever-aging diverse population must be immediately available. It also means reaching into unique cultures and adapting to their diversity. Expanding our existing programs into the community and “outside our front doors” responds to the needs voiced in the community for increased education on end-of-life issues. The new programs in development allow us to meet these concerns while also supporting the medical profession who readily admit that they are not adequately trained to deal with end-of-life issues.

Use of Funds

Funds raised in this comprehensive effort will support three key initiatives: 

• Capital improvements and equipment for our diverse care delivery sites. Alternative usages of the building must be explored to maximize the potential of the building and its location. Any major renovation to increase income will require funds well into the seven figures to accomplish.
• Staff development for education, recruitment and retention, physician and medical student rotation program.  We must recruit for specialized linguistic skills and grow teams of specialized caregivers to accommodate the growing multi-cultural segment of our community. Select valued program enhancement for bereavement support, pediatrics, community and professional education. 
• Mergers, acquisitions of marginal hospice providers, expand existing programs further into our community, manage unforeseen environmental disasters, and permanently fund key positions, collaboration with hospitals and other medical providers necessary for long-range planning and growth.

Each and every donation is an investment in our work to meet the needs of the dying. Your philanthropic support is crucial to help us provide critical programs and services to meet our community's growing hospice needs. Please help us with a donation to the Next 25 Years Campaign. Thank you.

Recognition Opportunities for our Community Champions for The Next 25 Years Campaign:

Click here to download a pledge form
Click here to view the entire formal campaign details - coming soon

Donor Bill of Rights

Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:

• To be informed of the organization's mission, of the way the organization intents to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
• To be informed of the identity of those serving on the organization’s governing board, and to expect the board to exercise prudent judgment in its stewardship responsibilities.
• To have access to the organization’s most recent financial statements.
• To be assured their gifts will be used for the purposes for which they were given.
• To receive appropriate acknowledgement and recognition.
• To be assured that information about their donations is handled with respect and with confidentiality to the extent provided by law.
• To expect that all relationships with individuals representing organizations of interest to the donor will be professional in nature.
• To be informed whether those seeking donations are volunteers, employees of the organization or hired solicitors.
• To have the opportunity for their names to be deleted from mailing lists that an organization may intend to share.
• To feel free to ask questions when making a donation and to receive prompt, truthful and forthright answers.

The Donor Bill of Rights was created by the American Association of Fund Raising Counsel (AAFRC), Association of Health Care Philanthropy (AHP), the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Stein Hospice is one of the many organizations that implement the Donor Bill of Rights.

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