Cheer

Sending cheer is ALWAYS a good thing... the darkest days and the sunniest. Be sure to visit "What Friends Do for Cheer" for creative and fun things you can do to show support for your friend.

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If you have an idea for our site you'd like to submit, send an email to ideas @ whatfriendsdo.com. We're always glad to get new ideas.

Helping friends when it's needed most

When a life-changing event happens, friends and family want to help! The WhatFriendsDo.com webtool is a FREE website that can help family and friends form a "Team" and respond in an organized and helpful
way. Helping a friend through a life-changing event involves lending a hand with meals, transportation
and other tasks. These events also call for understanding, love and uplifting support.

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Easy Cheer for the Next 5 Days !

February 9 – Bake a Pie Day – chocolate, lemon, pumpkin, cherry, apple… pick your favorite flavor and take a pie to your friend.

February 10 – Umbrella Day – who says friendship is only for sunny days? Find a fun umbrella and wrap it up. Take the gift to your friend to reinforce that your friendship is strong – rain or shine!

February 11 – Make a Friend Day – oh yes, that is definitely what friends do! Reach out to someone you’d like to become better friends with. You just never know when your smile might make a difference in someone else’s life.

February 12 – Chocolate Day – caregivers, nurses, hospital staff will enjoy chocolate cake, chocolate candies, chocolate chip cookies.

February 13 – I Value our Friendship Day – if you haven’t told your friend lately how special your friendship is, today is the day! Send a card, post a message on your friend’s WhatFriendsDo.com Guestbook, make a phone call, or take your friend to lunch to celebrate friendship.

Click here to see more daily cheer ideas.

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How the WhatFriendsDo.com website works

A coordinator (family member or close friend) completes
a brief registration process, and a “Team website” is created. In just a few minutes, the WhatFriendsDo.com webtool will help you customize a Team website that can be used to:

Coordinate schedules for meals, childcare, errands and other needs.
Provide information updates via your own Team blog.
Post photos to keep your Team inspired.
Provide a guestbook for messages to your friend.

The WhatFriendsDo.com webtool then guides the coordinator through potential activities the Team may use to help their friend. From the Team’s home page, your friend’s support network can access an activities calendar, sign up to help, read updates on the situation, write their own messages of support on the guestbook, and much, much more.

WhatFriendsDo.com team pages have privacy protection allowing for the option of controlling who may visit the team site.

(Click here to learn more about Coordinators' Roles
and Responsibilities)

Ready to create a team? Click here to GET STARTED!

Click Here to read the story about how the WhatFriendsDo.com website got started .

" A kind word is like a spring day. "

–Russian Proverb

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Friends and Teams

On the WhatFriendsDo.com website, "friends" comes in all forms ~ brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, cousins, neighbors, classmates, acquaintances, teachers, clergy, healthcare providers. So, even if the focused person on your 'team' is your relative, the WhatFriendsDo.com text will refer to that person in general terms as 'your friend.' The importance of teamwork when a friend is going through a life-changing event cannot be emphasized enough. We all have different skills, talents, schedules and personalities. Friends, neighbors, co-workers, classmates will want to help, and by having a WhatFriendsDo.com team, no one person has to do a lot of work, and many, many things can be done to help your friend get through a difficult situation.