The Ibis Charities Foundation recently donated a large new van to Trustbridge Hospice. The van, which includes a wrap acknowledging Ibis Charities, will mostly be used to pick up donations for thrift shops where all the proceeds go to Trustbridge Hospice.
“Trustbridge Hospice Foundation was selected for support to enable it to provide additional services it delivers as an important end-of-life care provider,” said Aimee Lucas, director of communications for the Ibis Charities Foundation. “We are excited about how this grant will amplify Trustbridge Hospice’s ability to run its thrift shops, which are critical to its overall operations.”
Trustbridge Hospice is a community nonprofit that has provided 24-hour support for more than 200,000 families in Palm Beach County and throughout South Florida facing serious illness since 1978.
“This van is much more than an instrument of transportation,” said Deborah Johnson, Trustbridge’s president and CEO. “In so many ways, it’s going to fuel our ability to drive this mission of delivering compassionate care to everyone in the community. We provide the highest level of end-of-life care to patients and their families at no cost to the individuals. The van will be very visible in the community.”
On the day Trustbridge took possession of the van in front of the Club at Ibis clubhouse, Johnson said that hospice was taking care of 1,807 patients and their families.
Ibis Charities Foundation was established in 2012 as the fundraising arm of the Club at Ibis. The nonprofit has committed nearly $3 million to numerous Palm Beach County organizations. Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of club members and its corporate sponsors, Ibis Charities has helped tens of thousands of individuals within the local community.
The Ibis Charities Foundation also has awarded Impact Grants to Building Homes for Heroes to adapt homes and build a mortgage-free home for severely injured veterans, to Sweet Dream Makers to provide beds and dressers to children who had none, and to Meals On Wheels of the Palm Beaches to deliver special dinners over the holiday week to homebound seniors.
“The foundation’s board, its various committees and volunteers all take our mission of ‘caring and sharing’ to heart and work diligently to achieve our goals,” said Rick Carpenter, board president of the Ibis Charities Foundation.
