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Currently WSA is conducting its 2010 Annual Appeal --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 Donation Page or print Mail-in Donation Page to mail your contribution to us. Click here to request WSA donation envelopes. Please include your mailing address.

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.

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Did You Know . . .

Greg Henson Pop Music

Download, and Support WSA
The WSA is pleased and excited about a fundraising project one of our friends has undertaken. Greg Henson, singer/songwriter, has just released “Pop Music,” an album dedicated to raising funds for the Well Spouse Association and The Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Sample audio tracks
7. Something in the Air Tonight
8. Poor Lonely Joan

WSA Stories

The Most Loving Thing

By Dizzy -- WSA Support Group Leader, Forum and WSA Member

A year ago today I walked out of the assisted living community without her. It was quiet--deeply quiet--walking alone to my rented car and driving away. Away. A dreadful word loomed just beyond my sense of exhaustion, relief and freedom. I didn't think about it head-on, but it lurked there waiting. Abandonment.

A series of illness had hijacked her, and me, and dropped us in a strange land. Her with dementia, me with my own madness for which I have no name. It is the madness of loss--loss of a lovely home, a good job, friends, family, retirement, travel, community, intimacy, companionship--peace.

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