The Funeral Service Foundation has launched its COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund, which will help funeral service professionals and organizations throughout the country that have been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Gifts at every level can be made at FuneralServiceFoundation.org.

The fund, which has two pillars of support – emergency assistance and grief – is designed to be flexible and will provide grants for immediate needs within funeral service, including emergency response to significant loss of life; grants to organizations providing services and resources to families with unresolved and complicated grief due to loss during this pandemic; and grants for other important needs as funeral service continues to serve families during the crisis.

“The Foundation Board of Trustees launched this fund with the understanding that funeral service was already responding to the crisis in a big way and will need tremendous support to continue to do so effectively,” said Chair Anthony Guerra of Guerra & Gutierrez Mortuaries in Los Angeles.

The Foundation is counting on the funeral service community to respond generously at this time of need and uncertainty. One-time or monthly gifts to the Funeral Service Foundation’s COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund can be made at FuneralServiceFoundation.org. Supporters can also send checks made payable to the Funeral Service Foundation to: FSF COVID-19 Crisis Response Fund, 13625 Bishop’s Dr., Brookfield, WI 53005. Or call 877-402-5900 to make your gift by phone.