Open letter to Home Depot,
I am delighted to be able to write to you today to say a very heartfelt thank you for the beautiful poinsettia plants that Home Depot Richmond so very generously donated this year for our volunteers.
I have to tell you that as the coordinator of volunteers for a not-for-profit organization which supplies volunteers to work throughout the city of Richmond, supporting people with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses, my budget line for nice little extras is very small.
We try very hard to thank our volunteers on a regular basis with cards and special notes and kudos in our newsletter, and sometimes with tangible items, but we could never have been able to supply them with such beautiful plants and they have been most appreciative of your generosity.
I gave out the bulk of the plants at our annual Christmas Pot Luck Dinner which we held on Dec. 4.
They added a very festive air to the evening by being our decorations on the tables and it was fabulous to be able to get up and advise everyone that we had enough to be sure that everyone could take one home with our great thanks for all of the support and continued dedication each and every hospice volunteer gives throughout the year.
So thank you once again. This is “heart” work and we do it willingly throughout the year, but during the holiday season it is even more poignant and impactful.
Jennifer Dufour
Rotary Hospice House
