You Can Help
Please Volunteer
- Tell your church, class or club to invite us to teach funeral consumer options to them
- Recommend our website to your local Hospice, Social workers and College Professor.
- File a complaint if you have been taken advantage of, manipulated or lied to by a funeral or cemetery provider. Instructions for:
Federal complaints: www.ftc.gov/multimedia/video/scam-watch/file-a-complaint.shtm
State complaints: www.dopl.utah.gov/investigations/complaint.html - Attend the quarterly Funeral Licensing Board meetings in SLC, see schedule at http://www.dopl.utah.gov/ Select Occupation/Profession
- Write your County Commissioners and Health dept Director to get high Dispositioner fees reduced to actual costs.
- Start a Home Funeral Committee in your community.
- Ask your local hospital administrators what their protocal is for release of the dead and send us a copy of it.
- Plan as a family to perform a Do-it-yourself funeral for the next death in the family.
- Join our email list to keep up with Utah funeral consumer news and calls to action.
Please Donate
Consider becoming a Supporting Member of FCA of Utah for $25/person. This membership is transferrable to any FCA across the country if you move. Email your request to join to FCAofUtah@gmail.com We would be happy to send you an Edward Gorey funeral planning packet for $4 s&h as a thank you for participating in the work.
So far, for the year 2011 FCA of UT has received $34 in donations.
You may also donate directly online to the national FCA at: www.funerals.org/become-member. For a donation of $50 we will consider you a member of FCA of Utah
FCA and FCA of Utah are both non-profit 501(c)(3) so donations are tax deductable to either.
How We Use Your Money
FCA of Utah is 100% volunteer run. All donations go to fulfilling the mission of FCA which is showing families the way to simple, meaningful, inexpensive and dignified funerals.
Please help FCA of Utah support the national FCA with more than the minimum affiliate dues. National is the lifeblood of this organization and we can't express enough appreciation for all that they (two full-time and one part-time employee) do for FCA affiliates and the citizens of this nation.
