Create a Legacy Project
Preserve your life story, reflections, and words of wisdom through a DOROT Legacy Project. You’ll be paired with a trained volunteer who’ll collaborate with you in your home or online to create a written or recorded keepsake of what is most important to you: your beliefs, values, lessons, hopes, memories, and stories.
Program Type: Volunteer Visit Arts & Culture Make a Friend
Age Group: Adults 60+
Frequency: Weekly Limited Series
Program Access: In Home Online
Create a Legacy Project
A volunteer will meet with you, at your home or online, to collaborate on a project that tells your story.
Email us at lastingimpressions@dorotusa.org
Become a Legacy Project Volunteer
Cultivate a meaningful relationship with an older adult over the course of 6 – 8 weeks. Meetings take place in the older adult’s home or online.
Email us at volunteers@dorotusa.org
About Legacy Projects
Share and preserve your stories, memories, wisdom, and beliefs, while cultivating an enriching relationship with a trained DOROT volunteer. You will share your story, and your volunteer partner will help to craft the project, in your voice, relying on your input every step of the way. Projects can take many forms—written narratives with photos, scrapbooks, cookbooks, letters, audio or video recordings—the sky’s the limit!
Legacy Projects are offered four times per year (winter, spring, summer, and fall) with up to 15 spots available per session. Projects take about 6 – 8 weeks to complete. After the project is completed, we invite Legacy Project participants and volunteers to gather as a larger group to share what they have created together.
In-Home or Online
This program is offered two ways. For those living in DOROT’s service area in Manhattan or in Westchester, a volunteer can come to your home. Or you can choose to work with a volunteer online from wherever you may live.
Contact Us to Learn More
We’d love to speak with you about creating a Legacy Project. We can let you know if you fall within DOROT’s service area for in-person projects or share information about doing an online project.
Email us at lastingimpressions@dorotusa.org.
I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful the Legacy Project was. My volunteer was amazing and brought out memories and ideas that were instrumental in every aspect of its development.
Thank You
DOROT’s Legacy Projects are generously supported by a grant from the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation.