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Fulfillment Training & Onboarding

Use this guide to teach you more about this select volunteer role & help you join the team if you feel led!

Please text Abigail at 712-541-4585 for any questions

Volunteer Role Expectations

  • Blanket Request Fulfillment Volunteers serve families experiencing pregnancy or infant loss by preparing & gifting blankets with care & prayer. This role is deeply meaningful & involves sensitive information that must be handled with the utmost respect.

    • This role is intentionally small & close-knit to protect privacy & ensure consistency.

    • Volunteers will serve on a rotating schedule, typically 1–2 times per month.

    • Blanket requests are fulfilled once per week as a ministry-wide goal.

    • Volunteers will be assigned a fulfillment day within the rotation.

    • Contact information of our team members will be provided if changes need to be made!

    • Life happens—illness, travel, and emergencies are understood. No worries, ever!!

    • Open communication is appreciated so coverage can be arranged when needed.

    • While flexibility is valued, volunteers commit to helping maintain our weekly fulfillment rhythm.

    • Volunteers may fulfill requests:

      • At the Something to Hold storage unit, or

      • By taking materials home and returning completed blankets within the week (typically within 1–2 days if possible)

    • Each blanket is prepared prayerfully & intentionally for the family it is meant to serve.

    • Fulfillment forms will be simplified to limit exposure to private details, but any necessary information will be provided to complete the request.

    • Treat every request, name, and story as sacred.

    • Handle all materials, notes, & information with gentleness & discretion.

    • Communicate clearly and promptly with leadership regarding completion, delays, or concerns.

    • Stand with our mission to serve these families of loss, uphold our Christian values & share the hope we have in heaven.

    • The contact information of our board of directors will be provided for anything you may need & to have multiple points of contact.

A prayer to ready your heart to serve –

We ask that you begin your time serving with a prayer! This work is heavy, needed, sensitive & dear to many. What a privilege it is to be welcomed into the stories of these little ones' lives that sometimes only few know about. Every day we are thankful to God for this mission & that He continues to move in it.

Key points to pray over & acknowledge:

  • That our hearts are open, willing, & ready to serve

  • We respect the families receiving blankets & those loving and caring for them

  • We hold the stories shared with us close to our hearts

  • We fully protect each family’s privacy, never sharing information given to us at any point

  • That the perfect blanket, with the perfect colors, reaches the exact family who needs it at the perfect time

  • That families feel comfort & a peace that surpasses all understanding, given only by God

  • That the impact of these blankets brings glory to Him

A quick look at the Fulfillment Process —

  1. Pick up the Fulfillment Form from our front porch in St. John! See our sample form here as an example.

  2. Stop by the storage unit at American Storage in St. John

  3. Grab your needed materials as marked on the Fulfillment Form

  4. All supplies & completed blankets are in clear or marked locations

  5. Work at the unit at our work station OR take the materials home!

  6. Lock up the storage unit when you leave

  7. Keep blankets in a pet-free environment

Packaging the Blankets —

  1. Each blanket will be wrapped in string with greenery & a STH card when it is ready to be gifted

  2. Fulfill each listed blanket request according to the chart on the Fulfillment Form

    1. Find the blanket that matches the “gender”

    2. Write “from …” on our separate From Cards, if applicable & tuck it into the blanket wrapping on top of the STH Card. If this cell is blank on the Fulfillment Form, then skip this step.

    3. Place the completed blanket into a tan polymailer & seal with the self-adhesive as neatly as possible

    4. Add a “Blanket Request” sticker to the front of the bag & write the Name for Pickup as marked on the form

    5. Collect the packaged blankets & the Fulfillment Form & drop them off in the drop box back at our house

Download our Sample Fulfillment Form

EXAMPLES OF THE MATERIALS YOU WILL USE & OUR DROP BOX

Diagram showing items for gifting blankets, including wrapped blankets, packaging bags, and gift tags. The image highlights examples of from cards and pickup labels, with the items arranged on a flat surface.

The materials list will be marked on the Fulfillment Form & each item should be easily located in the storage unit

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Does this feel like a fit?

Complete your on-boarding with this form below. Once submitted & reviewed, you will be added to the fulfillment schedule & officially a volunteer for Something to Hold. Welcome, we are so happy you are here!

Complete onboarding & sign confidentiality agreement
A folded blanket with black text and botanical images, a spool of twine, a small sprig of dried flowers, and a printed note about donating blankets to mothers experiencing miscarriage or infant loss, on a white surface.
A porch with a brown wooden wall, a gray storage box, a welcome mat, potted flowers, and a hanging fern plant.
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