Our Collaborators and Partners
The Home Funeral Alliance is proud to partner with organizations and practitioners who share our commitment to education, community empowerment, and accessible pan-death care.
Each collaborator or organization on this page has reached out, connected with our leadership, and demonstrated a shared vision for expanding access, deepening knowledge, and supporting families with compassion and dignity.
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These collaborators are more than colleagues; they are allies in reimagining what end-of-life care can look like. Together, we are building a stronger, more connected movement for meaningful,
community-centered deathcare.​
​We are honored to work alongside them as we build a compassionate, informed,
and connected future for home funerals and pan-death care.
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Learn More About Our Partners
Doulagivers
The Doulagivers 9 Choice Advance Directive was created by Suzanne B. O’Brien RN after her extensive work with those at the end of life for over 2 decades as a hospice and oncology nurse. There is not one Advance Directive document available ( up until now ) that encompasses all the necessary choices that a person needs to answer to not only have a positive end of life for themselves, but to guide their loved ones in a step-by-step plan on how to best support them in this last final phase.
This document is available by Doulagivers Institute for free so that everyone everywhere has the support they need to have a positive end of life. DoulaGivers contributes to the HFA mission by including our Home Funeral Guide in their educational works and webinars.
Farmstead Scattering Garden
We are delighted to welcome Farmstead Scattering Garden as a new collaborator with the HFA. Located on a fourth-generation working cattle farm in northwestern Pennsylvania, Farmstead Scattering Garden offers families a meaningful, nature-centered alternative for the final resting place of cremated remains.
Through a thoughtful mail-in process, ashes are gently scattered in designated fields, gardens, and pastures—spaces that honor the cycles of life and the continuity of the land. Families may choose weather or seasonal preferences, or add farm-inspired experiences that weave ritual into the scattering.
For doulas and funeral directors, and those interested in more sustainable end-of-life options, Farmstead Scattering Garden provides a partner in creating rituals beyond the traditional funeral home—expanding the venues where remembrance and storytelling can take root. Together, we can offer families new ways to find beauty, connection, and peace in the landscape of loss.
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Learn more about Farmstead Scattering Garden.
EstateExec
EstateExec provides an extensive interactive guide that explains what to do after the funeral (e.g., notify Social Security, publish official notice to creditors, etc.), automatically customized for the particulars of the estate, There's also an optional companion app that can help organize and track estate financials throughout the entire estate settlement process.
EstateExec is easy to use, and provides clear guidance just when the surviving family is most confused and trying to figure out what they're supposed to do next.
Check out the free Estate Executor's Guide (by State) HERE.
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Estate Exec also provides a number of wonderful free PDF resources:
https://www.estateexec.com/Docs/Guide
https://www.estateexec.com/Docs/Rite_of_Passage
https://www.estateexec.com/Docs/In_Advance
EstateExec contributes to the HFA mission by including our website and directory
on their Funeral & Resource Pages.
A Healing Doula Academy
A Healing Doula Academy founded by Sundari Malcolm. Sundari is a grief and death doula, author of the book Grief Gems, and a grief expert. She came to this work after having been the Caregiver for, and losing, her mother to breast cancer and her father to brain cancer.
A Healing Doula Academy is a culmination of her 17 years of work and a lifetime of spiritual teachings. It offers a comprehensive, spiritually rooted grief and death doula training that honors ancient wisdom traditions while equipping modern doulas with practical tools for compassionate care. This self-paced online training includes 6 in-depth modules, journeying through after-death care, home funeral practices, and ancestral traditions, while also engaging with plant medicine, sound healing, and sacred movement — all rooted in cross-cultural wisdom and the energetic boundaries required of every doula
Through this partnership, HFA members receive 30% off full Academy enrollment — a $329 savings.
In addition, HFA’s Home Funeral Guidebook is now included as recommended course material, strengthening the bridge between our communities of practice.
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