DOULA PROGRAM TO ACCOMPANY AND COMFORT INC
Kindness Counts
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
The Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort
Train and supervise volunteers to form meaningful relationships with individuals facing the end of life without friends or family. Volunteers get to know people beyond their illness and visit weekly, whether the person is at home or hospitalized.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of Doula Volunteers active during the course of a year
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
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The Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Totals represent the number Doula Volunteers who are active in our organization
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We envision making the world a kinder place.
We believe that anyone in need should be known beyond their illness, have their life stories heard, and be accompanied and comforted by a specially trained compassionate Doula Volunteer.
Our goal is to serve those in need of a Doula Volunteer in New York City.
Eventually our goal is to expand the Doula Program to serve nationally and internationally.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our referral strategy is to continue to build partnerships with healthcare and social service organizations throughout New York City.
Our strategy with Volunteers is to continue to recruit, carefully screen, thoroughly train, and successfully manage volunteers as they form relationships with people who are facing the end of life alone without friends or families.
Our strategy to secure funding is to partner with as many foundations and individuals as possible to ensure that the organization can flourish and meet the demand for services.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Doula Program recruits, screens, specially trains, carefully matches and supervises Doula Volunteers who visit individuals facing life threatening illness in area hospitals, healthcare facilities (nursing homes/assisted living) and at home.
Doula Volunteers visit weekly with one individual until he or she dies. These meaningful relationships last weeks, months and years. Our specially trained Palliative Care Doula Volunteers visit several individuals weekly in hospitals. Hundreds of individuals facing the end of life have been less alone as a result of a Doula Volunteer.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
* The Doula Program continues to receive a large number (over 100) of inquiries to become a Doula Volunteer annually. Due to our high retention rate, we are able to carefully interview and eventually select the 12-15 people who we feel are best equipped to become Doula Volunteers.
* Extensive outreach to new referring partners, as well as maintaining excellent relationships with existing referring providers, permits the Doula program to reach more isolated people in need of this special relationship as they face serious life-threatening illness.
* The Doula Program has been invited to consult and provide training to medical teams as well as to social service providers locally and nationally. Interest in the Program remains very high as a means of providing high quality, cost effective support services to people isolated by advanced illness.
* As the Program reaches a greater number of people, support from individuals and family foundations has increased.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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DOULA PROGRAM TO ACCOMPANY AND COMFORT INC
Board of directorsas of 02/14/2024
Alan LaVine
MD (retired)
Term: 2012 -
Michael Campagna
Moerus Capital
Michael McGowan
Sheila Erdos
Alan Lavine
Madelyn Sierra
Aarti Jindal
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
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