Nonprofit works to lift up front line healthcare workers

Fleece & Thank You has partnered with the Facebook group #LiftingUpTheFrontLines-Thank YOU’s For Healthcare Workers to help provide personalized words or encouragement to healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The men and women in the medical field are putting themselves on the front lines of battling this virus, many working double, triple time. Many of us would like a way to easily show our support and appreciation by expressing our gratitude directly to healthcare workers. And now, virtually, we can,” said Nicholas Kristock, founder and CEO of Fleece & Thank You. “Our platform was uniquely suited to lend itself for this purpose. I just knew we had to share our resources.”

Fleece & Thank You is inviting individuals to create a video or picture message aimed at giving healthcare workers motivation and encouragement during their daily service during this crisis. The organization, known for making no-sew fleece blankets with video messages of support from blanket makers and then delivering them to children in the hospital, is offering its own video message platform used to create blanket messages for this initiative at no cost to the users.

Anyone, anywhere, can upload a video or picture message cheering on a healthcare worker by logging onto fty.charity/covidsupport. The process on the website walks users through four simple steps.

Hospital workers across the U.S. in need of inspiration are able to visit the link fty.charity/covidthankyou. The link, along with a corresponding QR code to the same address, is being shared within social media groups for hospitals, nurse support groups and more. Some hospitals have posted the link in professional common areas.

Through the use of Fleece & Thank You’s proprietary platform, healthcare workers interested in providing thanks or a comment back to the original video creator can do so with a video message or email message.

Select videos will be shared on Fleece & Thank You’s social media channels as well.

For more information about Fleece & Thank You’s #LiftingUpTheFrontLines initiative, call 313-451-3665 or send an email to info@fleeceandthankyou.org.

About Fleece & Thank You

Established in 2015, Fleece & Thank You is a nonprofit organization that makes fleece blankets with encouraging video messages for children who have been hospitalized. For more information, visit FleeceAndThankYou.org.