Every Gift Honors a Life.
Your support funds grief care for families in Western North Carolina who have nowhere else to turn.
Grief is something every family experiences. Access to grief support is not. In Western North Carolina, many families face infant loss without access to the mental health care, community support, and compassionate guidance they desperately need.
Your gift to Embrace Foundation changes that. It funds a seat in a support circle for a bereaved parent who has nowhere else to turn. It covers a therapy referral for a family who cannot afford it. It makes a remembrance gathering possible for parents who need to say their baby’s name out loud in a room full of people who understand.
No family should have to navigate this alone. Your support makes sure more of them don’t.
Make Your Gift Today
Embrace Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Make a direct contribution in any amount. Every dollar supports a bereaved family in our community.
Ways to Give
Every Kind of Gift Makes a Difference
Choose the giving mode that feels right for you. All gifts go directly to serving bereaved families in Western North Carolina.
One-Time Gift
Make a direct contribution in any amount. Every dollar supports a bereaved family in our community.
Monthly Giving
Become a Sustaining Supporter. Monthly gifts allow us to plan ahead, keep our programs consistent, and serve families throughout the year — including on the hard anniversaries and holidays that come long after the initial loss.
Memorial Gift
Honor the memory of a baby by making a gift in their name. We will acknowledge your tribute and, with permission, share it with the family. Because a baby’s name deserves to be spoken — and remembered.
Sponsor a Remembrance Event
Help us host a candlelight gathering, Wave of Light ceremony, or memory-making workshop. Event sponsorships ensure our programming remains free and accessible to all families — including those least able to pay.
Other Ways to Support
Financial gifts are one way to help — but there are many ways to show up for bereaved families in our community. Here are four more.
Volunteer
We are always looking for compassionate people to serve as peer companions, event hosts, and community connectors. No clinical background is required — only a willingness to show up and be present with families in grief.
Train Your Team
Bring evidence-based perinatal bereavement education to your clinical practice, hospital unit, doula community, or organization. Trained providers change the experience families have at their most vulnerable moment. Contact us to schedule.
Refer a Family
If you know a family who is struggling after a loss — recently or years ago — you can refer them to us. Referrals can come from providers, friends, family members, or the families themselves. We will reach out with care, without pressure, and with no expectation about what they are ready for.
Share Our Work
Tell your community about Embrace Foundation. Share us with your OB, your midwife, your doula, your hospital social worker. Awareness is how we reach the families who don’t yet know that support exists.
It funds a seat in a support circle for a bereaved parent who has nowhere else to turn. It covers a therapy referral for a family who cannot afford it. It makes a remembrance gathering possible for parents who need to say their baby’s name out loud in a room full of people who understand.
— Why your gift matters
See Where Your Gift Goes
Every dollar you give supports one of the programs below. Our work is trauma-informed, grief-literate, and free or low-cost to every family we serve in Western North Carolina.
Support Circles
Small, facilitated groups where bereaved parents, partners, grandparents, and loved ones can come together to grieve in community. A space where your baby’s name is spoken aloud and welcomed.
Therapy Referrals
We connect families with perinatal grief therapists and trauma-informed counselors, and help them navigate insurance coverage and access care even when the system makes it hard.
Remembrance Gatherings
Candlelight services, Wave of Light ceremonies, and memory-making workshops that create sacred, community spaces for families to honor the lives that changed theirs forever.
501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization
Every Gift Honors a Life.
All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. To give, volunteer, or ask questions, reach us at infoembracefoundation@gmail.com.