National Students of AMF (Supporting one another And Moving Forward) is a nonprofit organization that connects and empowers college students grieving the illness or death of a loved one to support one another. The organization accomplishes its mission by creating Students of AMF Campus Chapters on college campuses nationwide, raising awareness about the needs of grieving college students, including through the annual National College Student Grief Awareness Week, and hosting national grief support programs and events, such as the National Conference on College Student Grief.
Since AMF was founded by David Fajgenbaum and Benjamin Chesson in 2006 (check out our history), the organization has worked with students from over 160 different colleges and universities to start up Campus Chapters, developed 42 official Campus Chapters, and supported over 1,500 grieving college students.
Campus Chapters
Campus Chapters are student-led, faculty/staff-advised, and university-recognized student organizations that consist of a peer-led grief support group, a service group open to the entire campus community, and a mentoring program that connects grieving students with supportive faculty. Click here to learn more about what they do and how you can be a part of one…
Volunteers
We are run entirely by volunteers and we would not be able to accomplish any of what we do without the dedicated support of dozens of volunteers nationwide. Our volunteers help us in a variety of ways, including: supporting and providing advice to our Campus Chapter Presidents, updating our Facebook and Twitter pages, fundraising on our behalf, organizing our annual National Conference, and helping us to maintain compliance with IRS, federal, and state regulations. Click here to learn more about our volunteers and how you can help us to support grieving college students…
Support us
Finally, we rely on the generous support of donors, nationwide, to help us to cover chapter costs, such as T-shirts/promotional items, refreshments at meetings and events, printing/copying costs, in-depth support group leader training, and expenses for chapter leaders to attend the annual National Conference on College Student Grief. Click here to learn more about how to donate to support our students…