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Currently WSA is conducting its annual Friends and Family Campaign --Donate Now!. The Well Spouse Association offers many ways in which supporters can give to fund the mission of Well Spouse.

Use our secure online processing or print our donation page to mail your contribution to us. Click here to request WSA donation envelopes.  Please include your mailing address.        Give a gift of New Year's Hope to a Spousal Caregiver:
Participate in the WSA Friends and Family Campaign --HUGS -- Help Us Give Support, Help Us Gain Support

At the end of National Family Caregivers Month - November 2009 - the Well Spouse Association  launched its 2009-2010 HUGS program. We invite those who are friends or relatives of a spousal caregiver -- someone whose spouse or partner has a long-term chronic illness and/or disability - to participate in two ways. Donate here.

1. Send the caregiver HUGS (Help Us Give Support) through an encouraging, uplifting message to appear in the next issue of Mainstay, the WSA quarterly newsletter mailed to each member. Imagine how surprised and empowered your loved one will feel when opening up that issue of Mainstay to read your message and the messages others have sent!

2. Support the well spouse community to which your loved one belongs by including your tax-deductible donation along with your message. Your donation will help offset the costs of this expanded and special issue of Mainstay and provide HUGS (Help Us Gain Support) for our national organization to continue its mission.
If the message recipient is not already a WSA supporting member, we will use $30* of your donation to make them a supporting member -- able to receive issues of Mainstay for one year. Sample Mainstay issue Read here.

N.B. Note to WSA supporting members: To participate, please EMail this message to your friends and family.

Donation (not specified):
Make a monetary donation to the Well Spouse Association general operating fund. WSA is a Guidestar approved charity.

Memorials: Honor someone you love by making a donation in memory of them. WSA will notify someone at your request, letting them know of your thoughtfulness.

Honorariums: Honor someone you admire, someone who has done something special for you, or someone who has done something special for someone else by making a donation in their honor. WSA will notify that person upon your request, letting them know of your thoughtfulness.

Gift Memberships: Give the gift of membership to a caregiver you know who needs support. Membership is $25-$30 per year and includes all the programs described on our membership page.

HUGS - Friends and Family Campaign: Surprise a WSA member and give HUGS (Help Us Give Support...Help Us Gain Support) by sending a special message to your caregiver while making a donation to support the well spouse community. In honor of November's National Family Caregiver Month, this campaign was started and has proved popular to the friends and family of our members who offer these uplifiting messages through this unique way to show support for their loved one. WSA members are notified by the printing of the messages in the next edition of our quarterly newsletter, Mainstay.
Here's a quote from a member on just how important HUGS are to caregivers:
"I recently received test results from my doctor, who explained to my IS that he shouldn't put any unnecessary pressure on me. Then after we talked, she gave me a big, tight hug. I really don't know the last time a healthy person gave me a caring and compassionate hug! It's really amazing how such a simple thing as a hug can mean so much."
Annual Appeal: Make a monetary donation to our annual appeal request letter.

Friends of the Founders Circle: Honor the commitment our Founders made in starting the Well Spouse Foundation (as it was then -- now the Well Spouse™ Association) by supporting WSA with a single donation of $100 or more to this campaign.

Founders Circle: Donors who show continued commitment to the Well Spouse mission and reach a total giving level of $5,000 or more will be welcomed into our Founders Circle, created in honor of our founders and the 20th Anniversary of Well Spouse.

Everyday Ways to Donate

There are many ways in which you can donate to Well Spouse through your every day activities:

iSearchiGive
Upload the iSearchiGive toolbar to your computer and join the revolution of internet donations at no cost to donors! Each time you search the web, Well Spouse will receive $.01 from iGive.com, again at no cost to you!

iGive.com
Upload the iGiveiSearch toolbar or the iGive.com shopping window and choose WSA as your cause. Each time you shop on the internet, WSA will receive a percentage of your purchase at no cost to you! It's a great way to help your cause and iGive.com does all the tracking for you! Sign up for iGive.com and shop within the first 45 days and WSA will receive a special $5 bonus from IGive.com.

Facebook
Add our Facebook cause page to your Facebook page. You could be generating donations for Well Spouse!

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Staples The WSA recycles printer cartridges through Staples, our office supplier. WSA receives a $3 credit on our Staples Rewards Program for each printer cartridge recycled. These credits in turn pay for our paper, envelopes, and other office supplies. Get a WSA rewards card to recycle your ink at your local store for WSA. Or give the WSA Office phone number 732-577-8899, or the WSA Staples no. 5327901483 to direct Rewards to the Association.

Estate Planning
Remember WSA in your will. Please contact our office for more information and for the wording which would need to be added to your estate planning documents.

Fundraisers

piggybank Has your life or the life of someone you know been touched by Well Spouse or spousal caregiving? Fundraisers are new to Well Spouse. Every fundraiser is important not only to raising money, but to rasing awareness of Well Spouse and the unique challenges spousal caregivers face.

Do you have an idea for a fundraiser in your community? To host a fundraiser in your local area or to get more information, please contact the office at (800) 838-0879.

Current Fundraisers Planned:

INOVA/Faifax Hospital Thrift Store
This ongoing fundraiser hosted by the Northern VA support group raises funds as members of the group donate items to the local hospital thrift store.

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Note: For 21 years an annual supporting membership, including a subscription to Mainstay and other benefits was $25. Recently, the WSA Board voted to raise that cost by $5 to $30 in the U.S. and $35 elsewhere in North America. Overseas, Mainstay will only be available elecronically, in the members' area. Had we kept up to inflation the cost today would be $43.50.

Two-thirds of the members of the Well Spouse are under 65. About one-third are under age 45. We have members who are in their 20’s and 30’s, especially with ill spouses who have Traumatic Brain Injury, or MS. Let others who have “been there and done that” help you face the challenges of long-term caregiving.

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Playing the Canada Card: an American Caregiver's Experience

Playing the Canada Card:

an American Caregiver's Experience

My husband John’s disease erupted like fireworks in the afternoon of my New Year’s Eve birthday seven years ago. I went out for the afternoon and returned home to find a stranger who only looked like John, talking gibberish and tearing our house apart at the seams. The siege lasted 16 hours.I thought of survival, not of Canada. As it turned out, survival and Canada would become one and the same.

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