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Become a Monthly Donor
Be a GEM. Give Every Month.
A gift every month. A lifetime of compassion and care.
Why Your Recurring Support Matters
When you become a GEM and Give Every Month you provide the predictable, sustainable foundation that allows Hospice of San Luis Obispo County to plan with confidence and respond immediately to the needs of our grieving neighbors. Monthly giving is an easy, efficient way to support our mission, reducing administrative costs and ensuring that your contribution goes directly to care.
Your Impact as a GEM
By becoming a GEM, you provide the foundation for:
- Integrated Care: Sustaining essential care management for families navigating dementia and life-limiting illness.
- Community Healing: Keeping our grief counseling and support groups 100% free of charge for anyone coping with loss.
- Volunteer Resilience: Training the compassionate volunteers who provide in-home respite and companionship to our neighbors when they need it most.
Join Our Community of GEMs
"Hospice SLO County has been giving every month to our community for decades. It is now my privilege to give every month to sustainably support Hospice SLO County."Become a GEM Today
-Minke WinklerPrins, MD, GEM and Board Member Alumnus
Diamond GEMS
Monthly Donations of $500+Your gift at the Diamond level helps keep our lights on. Overhead is a fact of life for any non-profit and we are grateful that your level of gift helps maintain our organization. At this level you are also considered a Lightkeeper.
- Len Jarrott
- Steven and Nancy McCoy
- Steven McCoy
Emerald GEMS
Monthly Donations of $100 - $499Your gift at the Emerald level will help support master’s prepared trainees in counseling under the clinical supervision of licensed staff. Not only are we able to see more grief clients, but we are helping train future San Luis Obispo County counselors to help with the impact of counseling availability. Your monthly gifts keep this valuable program going.
- Andrea Lawson
- Betty McCoy
- David Schimandle
- David Winett
- Janice Mehring
- Jayma Newland
- Karina Bain-Krueger
- Lynda Holloway
- Michael Hughes
- Michele Williams
- Minke WinklerPrins
- SLO Health
- Susan Raycraft
- Terry Housinger
- Theresa Cullen
- Astound Business Solutions
- Alpha Fire
- Good Electrons
Ruby GEMS
Monthly Donations of $50 - $99Your gift at the Ruby level supports two to four individual grief-counseling sessions per month. Our counseling services are open to anyone who is grieving a death or coping with a life-limiting illness in SLO County at no charge. We are seeing an increase in counseling calls, and we need this level of support now more than ever.
- David Church
- Denise Taylor
- Frederick Hathaway
- Gary Scott
- Jason Sisk-Provencio
- Keith Handley
- Kris Kington-Barker
- Lawerence Lodolo
- Maria Ciamaichelo
- Mary Anne Morgan
- Michael Lew
- Susanna Lindsey
- Wynette Winkler
Sapphire GEMS
Monthly Donations of $25 - $49Your gift at the Sapphire level can train one to two in-home volunteers a year. As a volunteer driven non-profit, this level of giving makes a big difference.
- Abe and Kelli Lincoln
- Anthony Huffaker
- Beth Kaminaka
- James Oliveira
- Jamie Maraviglia
- Jean Herrold
- Joanne Smith
- Joshua Handler
- Juan Floriani
- Kelly Sebastian
- Kevin O'Shea
- Mark Larsen
- Maureen Cormier
- Nanette Madding
- Nita Kenyon
- Rene Beebe
- Richard Elgart
- Sharie Rouse
- Steve Mullany
- Susan Cutts
- Susan and Garret Olson
- Tamara Laken
- Theresa McNanna Van Son
Amethyst GEMS
Monthly Donations of $5 - $24Your gift at the Amethyst level underwrites one to two support groups per month. We predict our support groups will grow in number, making this level of giving significant.
- Alexandra Riggle
- B. Elizabeth Atkinson
- Bob Cantrell
- Francia Porter
- Heidi Bezaire
- Jeannie Palermo
- Joanne Flackett
- Judy Buonaguidi
- Kaitlyn Hanley
- Kathi Haine
- Kirk Smith
- Leslie Brown
- Nora Leibman
- Paul Provence
- Rebecca Souza
- Rita Trumbo
- Robin Fox Avedesian
- Valerie Ferrario
