About Us

About The ALS Association Massachusetts Chapter

The ALS Association Massachusetts Chapter is a non-profit health care organization that serves people with ALS. Our mission is to provide services and education to patients, their families and caregivers while raising funds to support these services and to aid researchers in finding a cause, treatment and cure for ALS. We are also dedicated to increasing public awareness for ALS and advocating for assistance at the national and state level. Our simple message to patients and their caregivers, family and friends is that "you are not alone." Making sure that you can count on the caring, compassionate support of people who understand the daily challenge of living with the disease is our goal.

home page	http://www.als-ma.org
email	patientservices@als-ma.org
phone	781-326-8884
fax	781-326-4940

About Lotsa Helping Hands

Lotsa Helping Hands was created to support family caregivers and volunteers by empowering their circles of community who are eager to help those in need.

Our mission is to provide the communication resources facilitating a world where caregivers feel empowered to ask for help, and in so doing, improve their own health and quality-of-life; volunteers can become part of the solution when family, friends, neighbors or colleagues are in need of help, and community becomes a recognized way to find meaning in both giving and receiving.

Our Story

We created Lotsa Helping Hands after witnessing four years of awe-inspiring community support and response to a family member’s serious medical crisis. Seeing how earnestly friends wanted to help, and juggling the difficulty of organizing their assistance, we designed Lotsa Helping Hands with the understanding of how to bring together a variety of social circles and what a resulting community like this would need. Lotsa Helping Hands is easy to use and requires no training for either the Coordinator who creates the community or the members who participate.

Our Commitment to Philanthropy

Because Lotsa Helping Hands was inspired by the outpouring of support during our own caregiving experiences, we have a strong commitment to giving back, ourselves. We support the nonprofit sector and align with national organizations who offer our service to their members and constituents. We donate pro bono expertise and financial resources to the nonprofit organizations we serve.

What to Do Next

Choose a coordination service that might be right for you and your circles of community. Learn more about how it works or create your own community today.

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A service of The ALS Association Massachusetts Chapter