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Volunteer Fulfills Her Calling by Giving to Seniors 

Volunteer Fulfills Her Calling by Giving to Seniors 

After Jessica Jean went down to part-time at work in order to spend more time with her two daughters, she realized she had a little too much time on her hands while her children were at school.  She prayed on it. After taking a Women’s League class about how to...

Volunteer Goes the Extra Mile to Help Seniors

Volunteer Goes the Extra Mile to Help Seniors

Greg Bartolai, 52, of Coconut Creek, goes the extra mile for seniors.  Not only does he deliver meals to seniors through Heart2Heart’s Food for Hope program every week. Greg also took on the responsibility of driving seniors to Heart2Heart special events. ...

John and Lynn Offerdahl deliver Food for Hope meals

John and Lynn Offerdahl deliver Food for Hope meals

John and Lynn Offerdahl saw firsthand how the meals made in their restaurants nurtured a relationship between Heart2Heart volunteers and seniors in the Food for Hope program. On March 8, they accompanied a mother-daughter volunteer duo as they delivered meals to Donna...

Volunteer cares through homemade meals and dominoes

Volunteer cares through homemade meals and dominoes

Damaris Pena cooks a homemade meal for a senior couple once a week, but her visits are not about the food.  What’s more important is the time she spends playing dominoes and conversing. We named Damaris the Volunteer of the Month for February because of her...

Volunteers Rally to Help a Senior Get Better Sleep

Volunteers Rally to Help a Senior Get Better Sleep

The strength of community translated to a comfortable night of sleep in a new bed for a senior named Sherri.  Three Heart2Heart volunteers recently helped Sherri assemble a new bed and throw out the old one — simple tasks that she just couldn’t manage on her...

Annual report: Heart2Heart’s reach doubled in 2022

Annual report: Heart2Heart’s reach doubled in 2022

In 2022, Heart2Heart volunteers reached twice as many seniors as they had the year before.  A total of 7,361 seniors were impacted by the work of our volunteers last year. That’s compared to 3,431 in 2021.  The growth is a testament to the innovation and...

Volunteer of the Month Prioritizes Giving Back

Volunteer of the Month Prioritizes Giving Back

Every Saturday morning, Nicole Matthews spends time with two seniors before visiting her own mom at a nursing home. We named her the December Volunteer of the Month because of how she prioritizes helping others, such as going out of her way to help a man named Daniel...

Trevor Henderson on making a difference as a volunteer

Trevor Henderson on making a difference as a volunteer

Trevor Henderson is from Arizona but became a Heart2Heart volunteer while working a temporary job in South Florida this summer. We asked him to define the Value of a Volunteer. Here’s what he had to say.   I spent about five months in Florida selling residential...

Volunteer of the Month Gina Bell is blessed through serving

Volunteer of the Month Gina Bell is blessed through serving

Our volunteer of the month for November is Gina Bell, who goes above and beyond by spending extra time with seniors when she delivers Food for Hope meals. Gina makes the deliveries with her 12-year-old daughter, Abi, on Saturdays. The experience has been a special...