Great Day Family Connections matches family caregivers with local businesses willing to donate one good day. A few hours off. A fresh set of nails. A spa day. Dinner out. Time that belongs to nobody but them.
There is help for the person being cared for. There is almost nothing for the person doing the caring.
If you need a ramp, a wheelchair, a nurse, a program, a form, you can find it. But if you are the daughter, the wife, the sister, the son who has not had a day to yourself in three years, there is no phone number for that.
People will take care of your needs. Nobody asks about your wants.
We do not pay bills and we do not hand out cash. We do something smaller and, for a caregiver, sometimes bigger.
Simple on purpose, because caregivers do not have time for complicated.
A friend, a coworker, a sister, a neighbor fills out the form and tells us who they are, who they care for, and the one thing that would make their week.
A salon, a spa, a restaurant, a cleaning service, a respite care agency donates that service one time. No cost to the caregiver. Ever.
We sit down with both of them on camera. Why she needed it. Why they said yes. That story lives right here in Legacy and does the recruiting for us.
This is not a donation box. You donate the thing you already do well, one time, and we put your name and your face in front of every family that follows us. Giving and receiving, both directions.
Donates one full day package to a caregiver who has not had an hour to herself in years.
Donates four hours of covered care so a caregiver can leave the house without worrying.
Donates a full set. Small thing. Ask any caregiver how long it has been.
A filmed sit-down with you and the caregiver you helped, on this site, permanently.
Your logo, your story, and a link straight to your business on our partners page.
Recognized from the stage at Fedoras and Fascinators, in front of the whole room.
Caregivers talk to caregivers. This is the referral network you cannot buy an ad in.
Most people think of legacy as what you leave behind. It is really what you start the day you are born: every person you touch, and every person they go on to touch.
When a star bursts, what it scatters goes on to become new stars. Caregiving works the same way. The doctors, the nurses, the therapists, the family, the friends who show up. Everyone it touches carries a piece of it forward.
A daughter caring for her father. A parent raising a child with special needs. Friends who rally around someone through cancer. Every one of them has a story.
When you care for someone every single day, you stop seeing yourself. You see the same person in the mirror each morning and nothing beyond that.
Dona has done makeovers in senior living communities for years, and the moment never gets old. Somebody takes the time to make you feel beautiful and look beautiful, and you walk out glowing. Now that moment is for caregivers too.
Before and after is not about makeup. It is about being seen.
Every makeover becomes a portrait. At the end of the year, the portraits become a calendar, and every calendar sold helps fund a caregiver's day.
Every makeover is by invitation and permission. Portraits are only shared with a yes.
Caregiving is bigger than most people think. It is the daughter caring for her father, and it is also the parent raising a child with special needs. These are the resources Dona believes in and works with personally.
Paper Pie, formerly Usborne Books & More, makes some of the most visual children's books out there, which matters when your child is deaf or learns by seeing. If a book gets damaged, it can be replaced at half price for life.
Shop Paper Pie
Everybody deserves access to a lawyer, and everybody should have a will long before they need one. A LegalShield membership includes a will, a living will, and a power of attorney, plus a law firm to call with questions.
Dona believes every family should have life insurance, even for its newest member. It is not about expecting the worst. Coverage started young generally costs less, and it can help set your child up for whatever comes next.
Loved a look from one of Dona's makeovers? The products she uses are Mary Kay, and she can help you find your shade, your routine, and the lipstick everyone asked about.
More than 9 in 10 deaf children are born to hearing parents, and many of those parents never get the chance to learn to sign.
"If you can't communicate with your child, how are you going to read to them?"Dona Harris, founderOnce a month, we will read a book out loud and sign it at the same time, so any family can learn how to share a story with their child.
Open to everybody. Every reading is captioned and signed.
Nominate somebody who is carrying it all, or offer what your business can give.
You do not have to be related to them. You just have to notice them.
This came straight to our inbox. We read every single one, and we will be in touch about next steps.
Tell us what you would be willing to donate. We will handle the rest.
Your application came straight to our inbox. We will reach out to talk through the match and the filming.
One night a year, caregivers put the load down, get dressed all the way up, and get celebrated by name. Hats encouraged. Fascinators strongly encouraged. This is the night the work gets seen.
Sponsor tiers and gala date are a starting draft for review. Nothing here is published or promised yet.
Donations cover the days no business has stepped up for yet, and they put on the gala. Straight to Great Day Family Connections. No middleman taking a cut on the way.
Donate button is a live preview. It connects to Great Day Family Connections' own account the day we go live, so gifts land in your bank directly.