| Organization information | |
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| Organization Name | Wings Home |
| Please tell us the amount of funding you are requesting Aware to raise for your organization from the Aware annual fundraising event. | $10,000 |
| If your organization received Aware funding in the previous years, how many clients were serviced and/or how many services were provided with those funds. If you receive Aware funding this current year, how many clients will be serviced and/or how many services will be provided with these funds? | Wings Home received $4,200 in 2021 ($2,500 in January and $1,700 in November). This provided a total of 8 days of care for 4 individuals, a value of $8,000 to $12,800. |
| Please provide a listing of the Officers and Board members of your organization. | Mallory Smith Rimkus, President |
| Your Contact Information | Theresa Lynn |
| Phone | 269-686-8659 |
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| Scoring Criteria | |
| 1. Description of the Organization (maximum 5 points, please limit to ½ pages) | The Wings Home has been an irreplaceable asset to the community since it started caring for dying individuals in October of 2010. This innovative non-profit organization is the only hospice-founded end of life care home in Michigan and the only specialized place in Allegan County where dying individuals can live if they cannot stay in their own homes. Our ranch-style 4-bedroom home is available to any Wings of Hope Hospice patient who needs a place to live during their last few weeks of life. These individuals either have nowhere else to go, have no one to care for them or have loved ones who can no longer care for them. There is no cost to the patient to stay at the Wings Home. Located in Allegan, Michigan, the Wings Home serves individuals from Allegan, Barry, Kalamazoo and Van Buren Counties and the surrounding communities. Since 2010 the Wings Home has served more than 1,000 patients. Staff and volunteer caregivers provide around-the-clock care for our patients. We believe that everyone, regardless of their financial/social/emotional situation, sexual orientation or gender identity deserves compassionate care at the end of life, the minimizing of suffering and a death that is as comfortable as possible. Individuals served by Wings of Hope Hospice who may be in their last 6 weeks of life are eligible to stay at the Wings Home. |
| 2. Funding Request (maximum 35 points, total, please limit to 1 page) | Funding is being requested from West Shore Aware for Wings Home caregiver wages which make up 72% of the organization’s budget. The sole purpose of the Wings Home is to provide care to dying individuals. This includes all the care that a family would provide a dying loved one: meal preparation, changing briefs, helping with medication, cleaning, laundry and providing emotional support to the patient as well as the patient’s family. West Shore Aware funds would be used to support caregiver wages which helps the Wings Home give dying patients and their families what they need during a critical time. |
| 3. Funding Justification (maximum 40 points, please limit to 1 page) | Funding from West Shore Aware would pay for part of the project. Funds are also requested from Allegan County Community Foundation, United Way, Mary Thompson Foundation, Delano Foundation, Perrigo Foundation and donations from the community. |
| 4. Summary | A dying individual needs increasing amounts of hands-on care as they near the end of their life. This can be a challenge if family lives far away or if they are exhausted caregivers or in frail health themselves. Options for a place to live include several institutional facilities that charge $250 to $400 per day. Located in Allegan, Wings Home is a ranch-style 4-bed home that provides care to Wings of Hope patients in their last weeks of life at absolutely no cost to the patient or family. Since 2010, the Wings Home has cared for more than 1,000 individuals. Everyone, regardless of their financial/social/emotional situation, sexual orientation or gender identity, deserves compassionate care at the end of life without worrying about how to pay for it. |
| Application Agreement | This is an application, otherwise known as a Request for Funding (RFF), from
West Shore Aware. This RFF is a request from your organization to Aware, for Aware to host a
Fundraising Event for your organization. By completing this RFF, your organization is requesting to be considered by Aware’s membership for an Aware fundraising event to be held during the summer of this year, also known as the White Party.
If your organization is chosen for a fundraising event by the Aware membership, your organization will agree to the following terms and conditions for the said fundraising event. 1. Aware will be given and provided full credit for the fundraising event in all of you organization’s publicity and advertising for said event, to include but not limited to event posters, newspaper advertising, handouts, radio and television advertising for the event, and organizational announcements concerning the event. 2. Your organization will only use the funds raised by Aware from said event for the purpose described in the RFF submitted to Aware. 3. Your organization understands that West Shore Aware is a philanthropic organization of LBGTQ+ individuals and their supporters, and that the funds your organization receives from Aware will be coming from the West Michigan lakeshore community. 4. The funds received from Aware as a result of the fundraising event will be net, after expenses for said fundraising event are paid. 5. Aware may use the name of your organization in its own advertising and publicity as a recipient of funds.. 6. Your organization will supply Aware with written approval to hold, or be part of a fundraising event held by Aware. 7. West Shore Aware reserves the right to audit any organization that receives funding to determine whether the funds were used as described in its RFF. 8. Your organization will allow West Shore Aware to use you organization’s name on the West Shore Aware website. In addition, if your organization has a website, you will link that website to the West Shore Aware website and allow West Shore Aware to link to your organization’s site. West Shore Aware’s web site link must remain on your web site for a full year from the date of the monetary disbursement. Failure to do so will disqualify you from requesting future funding. Once you have completed the RFF and agreed to the aforementioned, please submit it. Please sign this document below, indicating acceptance of the aforementioned terms and conditions. By signing the document, you acknowledge your organization is a registered 501(C) 3 Charitable organization. |
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| Date | 04/26/2024 |
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