Now it's easier than ever to make your donation!
Remember, 100% of all donations the Friends Forever receives is used to directly benefit our residents. Here's how:
- sponsor monthly bingo at both facilities by providing monetary prizes to our resident winners
- sponsor a fall dance and a Christmas party by paying for entertainment, decorations and refreshments for those events
- provide funds for special community outings as determined and requested by the Activities Departments at both facilities
- purchase Christmas gifts for each resident at both facilities (average cost: $21 in 2013)
- provide funds to maintain the aquariums at both facilities
- provide funds for the overhead music heard in the PA system daily
- provide funds for cable television in common areas and unit lounges
- provide funds to publish, print and mail our monthly newsletters
- provide funds to purchase flowers for corsages & boutonnieres for Mother’s & Father’s Day
- provide funds to maintain and make available weekly snacks on our hospitality cart purchase license for small games of chance (annual golf outing)
- purchase an annual membership to the Erie Community Foundation from which we are eligible to participate in their annual Erie Gives program, networking with other area non-profits, as well as other programs beneficial to area non-profits
The Friends also help PRM with special projects that improve our facilities. In the past, those projects have included: the purchase of Nautilus fitness equipment for our Rehab Departments, gazebo and courtyard renovations for both facilities, purchase of several resident transport vans, renovation of the Activities/OT kitchenette, Beauty Shop renovations for both facilities, and our most recent project: creating an internet café for our residents & visitors.
If you'd like to mail a donation, just download the "Donation" form located to the left of this news post and send your tax-deductable donation payable to the PRM Friends Forever to the address on the form.
