Following a major life event, whether traumatic or exciting,
it helps to have wrap-around supports from your community of friends and family.
Our Virtual Care Packages bring together 7 forms of support so people can easily give in all the ways that are meaningful to them.
How it works.
1) Purchase a Virtual Care Package for $30.
2) Complete a single intake survey
3) We do the hard part by setting up the applications that enable the care package recipient to be supported by their community in 7 different key areas:
Fundraising
Meals
Transportation
Groceries
Wishlist
Virtual Card
Communication
4) We create a personalized page for the recipient that includes the 7 areas of support in one place. This site is hosted for a year, with the option to extend hosting. The recipient is also given login credentials in case they’d like to update any information at any time.
5) Share your website link with others and watch as your community supports the recipient in each meaningful unique way!
Why Virtual Care Package?
Virtual Care Package alleviates the stressors that can arise after major life events by harnessing the power of community to provide wrap-around supports.
Problem: Your mind, heart, time, and resources are usually completely stressed! The last thing you have the capacity for is to organize support, and certainly not multiple avenues of support.
Solution: We do the hard part by creating all the applications that provide wrap-around supports for you.
Problem: If multiple forms of support are set up for you (for example a Go Fund Me page and a Meal Train page), you’re having to send out multiple links to people to participate. This quickly can get confusing and inefficient.
Solution: We bring all of these areas of support together into one personalized space, with a single website link that can be shared to keep everyone on the same page for all areas of support needed.
Problem: People want to know how to help, so you’re constantly being asked for ideas.
Solution: Whether it’s through donating money, gift giving, prayer, words of encouragement, or acts of service, people love to contribute in a way that feels meaningful to them. Giving people multiple ways to help allow them to offer support in a personal way.
Problem: Rarely do you actually know what you need, so you end up with thoughtful… but sometimes quite random gifts. You end up spending extra money on purchasing things you actually need.
Solution: We have thoughtfully put together wishlists that take the guess-work out of what you’ll actually need. We have carefully incorporated the ideas of individuals who have already gone through what you’re now facing.
Problem: You are repeatedly asked for your address to send gifts and support to, and everyone and their sister ends up having your address! There seems to be no confidentiality of your space.
Solution: Your address is embedded confidentially into the applications. Donors can purchase gifts for you that are delivered directly to your home, all while keeping your address private.
Problem: Everyone wants updates! It’s overwhelming to keep every person and group chat updated with health updates or prayer requests.
Solution: GroupMe allows anyone (or admitted members only) to easily join a single group chat where you can text out updates in one place. It can be set to one-way communication if you only want to send out announcements, or it can be set to allow members to respond to you and each other.
Problem: Everyone and their brother seem to have your phone number now—again, zero confidentiality of your contact information.
Solution: GroupMe allows everyone to keep their numbers confidential, even while being on a group chat together. Also by having all of these areas of support in one place, it minimizes the sometimes overwhelming amount of texts/calls from individuals asking what you need and how to support.
Amazon Wish Lists
Buy needed items that actually help.
Stop wasting money.
Provide the right support.
Buy needed items that actually help. Stop wasting money. Provide the right support.
Buy needed items. Stop wasting money. Provide the right support.
Following a major life event, take the guess work out of determining what is really needed. These Amazon wish lists were designed by people who have experienced these major life events first-hand and know what items are truly the most helpful. Put your money to better use by purchasing items that the individual will actually use.
