All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowable by law. Brief Encounters Inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, Federal ID #45-4822283. Copyright ©2022 Brief Encounters Inc.

 

Donate

Love Gifts to Brief Encounters may be given in loving memory of children who have died, in gratitude for living children, or as general gifts to further our support of bereaved parents. We acknowledge all gifts without reference to amount in the monthly newsletter. Your gift, large or small, will go toward printing our brochures and booklets for area hospitals and clinics, maintaining this web site, providing monthly meetings, reaching out to the provider community, mailing newsletters, and various other efforts. Brief Encounters is run entirely by volunteers. We greatly appreciate your generosity.

To make a donation, click the Donate button. We encourage the use of PayPal instead of using the Facebook donate system.

3% Cover the Fee

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Mail your check to:

Brief Encounters
P.O. Box 82817
Portland, OR 97282

 

get involved

If you are interested in volunteering behind the scenes or directly with other bereaved parents, the following opportunities may be of interest to you.  Time commitments and training vary by position. If you have an idea of a volunteer role that is not listed, please reach out!

  • Board Member

  • Newsletter: Preparing and emailing our monthly newsletter

  • Event Director: plan and oversee our events through out the year including Noah’s Quest, Wishing Tree Walk, Wave of Light and Holiday Remembrance Ceremonies.

  • Outreach: reach out to medical facilities to share about Brief Encounters as a resource for their patients.

  • Communications Facilitator: retrieve messages from our message line a minimum of once a week, return calls or pass along messages as needed.

For the following opportunities, volunteers must be a year out from their loss, have attended a Brief Encounters meeting and will need to go through our facilitator training.

  • Meeting Facilitator: facilitate our support meetings for bereaved parents.

  • Backup Meeting Facilitator: act as a support person to the facilitator and facilitate meetings when the regular facilitator cannot attend.

If you’re interested in getting involved with Brief Encounters, email newsletter@briefencounters.org