Perhaps you know a family that is suffering because one its members has just been diagnosed with an illness. Sign up for the organizational help using the Lotsa Helping Hands website. Family and friends can sign up to help cook, manage childcare, shop or simply sit. From the website:
In literally minutes, a Coordinator can create, free-of-charge, a private and secure Lotsa Helping Hands web community, define volunteer activities using the supplied templates, and begin inviting members to the community. Through an intuitive interface that requires no training, volunteers can then easily view and sign up for any number of available tasks, review their current commitments, and be confident they won’t forget any assignments as the system automatically sends out email reminders of upcoming obligations.
Community members also have access to the community’s private message boards, photo galleries, resource sections for sharing relevant web links and documents, and even a Well Wishes wall. Any number of custom community sections can be created by the Coordinators to enrich the flow and sharing of information within the community, keeping all members, near and far ‘in the loop’.
Coordinators can also easily create new custom sections within the community to address the specific needs and make-up of the community, including journals and blogs, photo albums, message boards, recipe sections, and listings of members’ skills. The community-building capabilities are only limited by the imagination.
te community in which you know a member, get in touch with that person and ask them to send you a ‘tell-a-friend’ link which will allow you to request membership into the community. For privacy and security reasons, there's currently no way to volunteer at a web site in which you don't know anyone.
Once the community web site is set up, the Lotsa Helping Hands system quickly and easily guides Coordinators through the creation of new activities using on-screen pre-defined template forms. For example, the request to receive weekday dinners would specify the desired days and times, dietary restrictions, and delivery instructions. Or if a family requires transportation, they can easily specify pick-up and drop-off times, locations with direct links to Google Maps for directions, and appointment durations.
Lotsa Helping Hands relieves the awkwardness of personally asking for help in each instance of need. And once a member signs up for a task, the community web site shows that task as assigned, thereby avoiding overlap of efforts, wasted meals, and confusion.
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