The Registry for Care
Organize expenses, meals and everyday support in one place during life’s hardest moments.
Different moments call for different kinds of care
Choose a template built for this moment, then personalize it to fit your needs.
Planning Ahead
One of the most loving things you can do. Planning ahead protects your family from hard decisions later. This registry lets your community support the process — practically and financially.
Best for: Individuals or families planning ahead
Focus: Advance planning and financial preparation
Planning Ahead
Planning ahead can ease difficult decisions later.
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Traditional Funeral
Let your people carry some of the weight. This registry makes it easy for friends and family to help cover the real costs of a traditional funeral — so you don't have to navigate it alone.
Best for: families needing help with funeral costs
Focus: financial contributions
Traditional Funeral
Helps loved ones contribute to services and honor a life
Celebration of Life
Honor a life well-lived — together. This registry helps your community cover the practical costs of gathering, so your family can focus on celebrating and healing.
Best for:Families hosting a memorial gathering
Focus: Event and gathering support
Celebration of Life
A place to share memories and celebrate a life well lived
Hospice & End of Life Care
Support that shows up in the everyday moments. This registry invites your community to help with the care, comfort, and daily needs that make the hardest days a little softer.
Best for: Individuals and families navigating hospice or end-of-life care
Focus: Comfort, care, and meaningful support
Hospice & End of Life Care
A place to organize care, coordination, and meaningful giving during end-of-life care.
Create Custom Registry
Create Custom Registry
Build a registry that reflects your financial, practical and personal needs
Planning Ahead
One of the most loving things you can do. Planning ahead protects your family from hard decisions later. This registry lets your community support the process — practically and financially.
Best for: Individuals or families planning ahead
Focus: Advance planning and financial preparation
Planning Ahead
Planning ahead can ease difficult decisions later.
Traditional Funeral
Let your people carry some of the weight. This registry makes it easy for friends and family to help cover the real costs of a traditional funeral — so you don't have to navigate it alone.
Best for: families needing help with funeral costs
Focus: financial contributions
Traditional Funeral
Helps loved ones contribute to services and honor a life
Celebration of Life
Honor a life well-lived — together. This registry helps your community cover the practical costs of gathering, so your family can focus on celebrating and healing.
Best for:Families hosting a memorial gathering
Focus: Event and gathering support
Celebration of Life
A place to share memories and celebrate a life well lived
Hospice & End of Life Care
Support that shows up in the everyday moments. This registry invites your community to help with the care, comfort, and daily needs that make the hardest days a little softer.
Best for: Individuals and families navigating hospice or end-of-life care
Focus: Comfort, care, and meaningful support
Hospice & End of Life Care
A place to organize care, coordination, and meaningful giving during end-of-life care.
Create Custom Registry
Create Custom Registry
Build a registry that reflects your financial, practical and personal needs
Planning Ahead
One of the most loving things you can do. Planning ahead protects your family from hard decisions later. This registry lets your community support the process — practically and financially.
Best for: Individuals or families planning ahead
Focus: Advance planning and financial preparation
Planning Ahead
Planning ahead can ease difficult decisions later.
Traditional Funeral
Let your people carry some of the weight. This registry makes it easy for friends and family to help cover the real costs of a traditional funeral — so you don't have to navigate it alone.
Best for: families needing help with funeral costs
Focus: financial contributions
Traditional Funeral
Helps loved ones contribute to services and honor a life
Celebration of Life
Honor a life well-lived — together. This registry helps your community cover the practical costs of gathering, so your family can focus on celebrating and healing.
Best for:Families hosting a memorial gathering
Focus: Event and gathering support
Celebration of Life
A place to share memories and celebrate a life well lived
Hospice & End of Life Care
Support that shows up in the everyday moments. This registry invites your community to help with the care, comfort, and daily needs that make the hardest days a little softer.
Best for: Individuals and families navigating hospice or end-of-life care
Focus: Comfort, care, and meaningful support
Hospice & End of Life Care
A place to organize care, coordination, and meaningful giving during end-of-life care.
Create Custom Registry
Create Custom Registry
Build a registry that reflects your financial, practical and personal needs
Good Grief
Families and deathcare workers share how GiveWillow supports people through loss, with care and community.
Create a registry, share it with your community, and coordinate care in one place.
Simple steps to create a registry, share it with your community, and receive support in meaningful ways
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Share with your community
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Meet the Founder
When I was 22, my dad passed away unexpectedly. My siblings and I were suddenly responsible for planning and paying for his cremation while navigating overwhelming grief. He had been a single father for most of my life, and the experience exposed just how unprepared families can feel emotionally, financially, and logistically after a loss.
In the years that followed, I watched friends and acquaintances face similar situations. Communities wanted to help, but support often arrived without structure or direction. Meals piled up. Flowers filled rooms. Yet families were still left trying to navigate funeral expenses, caregiving responsibilities, travel, childcare, and day-to-day survival on their own.
That realization stayed with me.
In 2018, I began building the earliest version of GiveWillow with the belief that support during loss could be organized more thoughtfully and compassionately. Today, GiveWillow helps families coordinate meaningful, tangible support during some of life’s hardest moments.
– Janet Turkula, Founder & CEO
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FAQs
How is GiveWillow different from GoFundMe?
Rather than creating a general fundraising campaign, families create a registry that organizes meaningful support during difficult moments. Friends and loved ones can contribute meals, funeral expenses, travel, childcare, memorial costs, and other practical needs in a way that feels more personal, structured, and actionable.
While crowdfunding platforms focus primarily on raising money, GiveWillow is designed to coordinate community support more holistically during end-of-life journeys, hospice and palliative care, funerals, grief, and celebration of life planning.
In addition to funeral registries, GiveWillow also offers hospice, palliative care, pre-planning, and celebration of life registries, helping families navigate both expected and unexpected life transitions with greater clarity and support.
What is a Funeral Registry?
Similar to a wedding or baby registry, a funeral registry organizes specific needs so friends and loved ones can contribute in practical, tangible ways. Families can share memorial details, coordinate support, and receive help with expenses like funeral costs, meals, travel, childcare, and other day-to-day needs during an overwhelming time.
GiveWillow also serves as a centralized space for sharing updates, memories, service information, and ways for communities to show up with intention.
How do contributions work?
Depending on the type of registry, contributions may go toward funeral expenses, meals, travel, childcare, hospice support, memorial events, or other practical forms of care. Contributors can choose exactly how they want to help, creating a more personal and organized support experience for families.
Is GiveWillow free to use?
When a contribution is made, a 2.2% platform fee is applied in addition to standard payment processing fees. These fees help support secure payment processing, platform operations, and ongoing improvements to the GiveWillow experience.
How do I know if GiveWillow is right for me?
Whether you’re organizing support after a death, coordinating care for a loved one, planning a celebration of life, or preparing ahead, GiveWillow helps simplify communication, organize support, and bring communities together in a more intentional way.
Does GiveWillow include an obituary?
GiveWillow also includes an AI-powered obituary writing tool to help families create thoughtful, personalized obituaries with greater ease during emotionally difficult moments.
The registry serves as a centralized space for remembrance, coordination, and support before, during, and after services.
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