This week, Helen shared some of her beautiful messages that she sends to seniors. I thought that this one was particularly beautiful and thought it would be lovely to share with the LAI community of beautiful souls!

Happy Sunday, Shreya!

I hope you're enjoying your morning! It is stunning here in St. Louis! Today we'll keep this newsletter short and sweet so we can all go enjoy the sunshine! Before I get into the meat of the newsletter, I wanted to ask if you might write just one extra letter this week - we're a little bit behind on letters this cycle, and I know that together we can send a joy-filled letter to every senior we serve!

This Week on The Blog...

Have you ever had mail returned and wondered why? Well, we heard your concerns and we are listening! As you know, our fantastic Volunteer Coordinators Paula and Tim headed the verification project of all of the addresses of the facilities that we write to. This week on the blog, we have more to share with you!

We are hearing from the fantastic volunteer, Marsha! She is sharing tips and tricks she's learned through mailing her letters and cards to LAI's seniors! This is such a great read for volunteers - both new and old. Marsha's article taught me so many new best practices for mailing my letters and cards to make sure I've done everything possible to ensure that my mail gets to its destination successfully!

Thanks's Marsha for sharing your expertise!

This Week's Spreadsheet:

This has been a slow week so right now only 46% of our seniors will be receiving letters. Let's make that 100%! Please sign up to write a couple of extra letters so that every single senior we serve gets to know that someone is thinking of them this week.

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New Sign Up System!

As we announced earlier this month, LAI has built a new sign-up system to replace the spreadsheet. It is open right now for you volunteers to practice using it! We want to make sure that each and every volunteer is able to use this new system. With that in mind, we have posted a video tutorial and will be running several office hours during which you can join a zoom and ask us any of your questions. Office hours will take place on April 26 at 5:00 pm EST

Positivity Sunday

Thank you Volunteer Coordinator Ellen for sharing a letter you received back from one of our newest facilities - Redeemer Health and Rehab in Minneapolis!

What fantastic feedback both to Ellen and to the LAI community more broadly that the letters and cards are making such a huge impact on our senior recipients!

Letters Against Isolation