Giving Priorities

Working for Today and Planning for Our Future

The Board of Directors reviewed its mission and developed a new strategic plan in the fall of 2003.

The following strategic priorities were established for 2004 and beyond:

  • Stabilize the operating budget,
  • Create greater community awareness,
  • Attract increased private investment,
  • Strengthen our management infrastructure,
  • Carefully plan future programs,
  • Enhance in ways that ensures sustainability.

Financially, Pilgrims Hospice needs to raise more than $450,000 each year in operating funds designated to running our programs and service expansion.

FOR TODAY

Program Funding - $450,000 Annually

Pilgrims Hospice seeks to establish a level of community investment that will sustain existing services and enable program growth for the next 3 to 5 years.

Programming Operations and Development (annual requirement)

  • Children's Hospice at Home
  • Home Hospice (Volunteer Visiting Program)
  • Day Hospice (Adult Respite)
  • Spiritual Care
  • Caregiver Support Services and New Initiatives
  • Expressive Arts Support Program for Grieving Children, Teens and Families                           

FOR TOMORROW

Endowment Fund: $2,500,000

Though annual fundraising efforts will continue to generate operating dollars, Pilgrims Hospice is securing its future by establishing an Endowment Fund. Sustainability and growth will be enhanced through this permanent base of funding.

Capital Costs - Residential Community Hospice: $5,000,000

Planning for future growth, Pilgrims Hospice Society purchased property in 1999 with the vision that one day we would build a residential community hospice on our site.