Sending cheer is ALWAYS a good thing... the darkest days and the sunniest. Be sure to visit "What Friends Do for Cheer" for creative and fun things you can do to show support for your friend.
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Helping friends when it's needed most
When a life-changing event happens, friends and family want to help! The WhatFriendsDo.com webtool is
a FREE website that can help family
and friends form a "Team" and respond in an organized and helpful
way.
Helping a friend through a life-changing event involves lending a hand with meals, transportation
and other tasks. These events also call for understanding, love and uplifting support.
A coordinator (family member or close
friend) completes
a brief registration
process, and a “Team website” is created.
In just a few minutes, the WhatFriendsDo.com webtool will
help you customize a Team website that can
be used to:
Coordinate schedules for meals, childcare, errands and other needs.
Provide information updates via your own Team blog.
Post photos to keep your Team inspired.
Provide a guestbook for messages to your friend.
The WhatFriendsDo.com webtool then guides the coordinator through potential activities the Team may
use to help their friend. From the Team’s home page,
your friend’s support network can access an activities calendar, sign up to help, read updates on the situation, write their own messages of support on the guestbook, and much, much more.
WhatFriendsDo.com team
pages have privacy protection allowing for the option
of controlling who may visit the team site.
(Click here to learn more about Coordinators' Roles
and Responsibilities)
Ready to create a team? Click here to GET STARTED!
Friends and Teams
On the WhatFriendsDo.com website, "friends" comes in all forms ~ brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, cousins, neighbors, classmates, acquaintances, teachers, clergy, healthcare providers. So, even if the focused person on your 'team' is your relative, the WhatFriendsDo.com text will refer to that person in general terms as 'your friend.'
The importance of teamwork when a friend is going through a life-changing event cannot be emphasized enough. We all have different skills, talents, schedules and personalities. Friends, neighbors, co-workers, classmates will want to help, and by having a WhatFriendsDo.com team, no one person has to do a lot of work, and many, many things can be done to help your friend get through a difficult situation.
Watch a video about the WhatFriendsDo.com story and features of the site:
WhatFriendsDo.com is Free
Because the WhatFriendsDo.com website is dedicated to helping friends when it's needed most, the site is easy to use and, even better, it is FREE. The WhatFriendsDo.com website is free to use, thanks to our sponsors and to our partner merchants, whose wide variety of services and materials can help you do what friends do for each other.
Click Here to read the story about how the WhatFriendsDo.com website got started .
May 9 – Lost Sock Memorial Day – gather those odd socks with no mates and fill them with candies, toys and other fun surprises. Deposit them in the mailboxes of friends who need an extra smile today!
May 9 - Military Spouses Day – organize all the friends of your deployed friend’s spouse for a party today. Combine the festivities with a work project of help around the house or yard.
May 10 – Be Edgy Day – grab your yard tools and head to your friend’s house. Edge the sidewalks and flowerbeds, then make a colorful border of flowers around the edge of your friend’s flowerbed.
May 11 – Eat What You Want Day – if you are providing a meal for your friend’s family today, call and ask for the family’s favorite recipes – what a surprise when you show up with those food items prepared and ready to eat!
May 11 – Mother’s Day
May 12 – Say It With Flowers Day – if someone has been on your mind lately, or you meant to send flowers for an occasion but just never got around to it, send the flowers today!! Your gift is guaranteed to be special, and the timing will be perfect!
Click here to find out how you can make these days, and others, special for your friend!
