In-kind donations

Your gifts help AHN provide compassionate care and a remarkable experience for the patients and visitors at our care facilities. 

The AHN Volunteer Resources Department is able to accept in-kind donations of items for our patients and programs. You can find a list of items we need most below. We are grateful and appreciative of all donations.

Email the Volunteer Department at the facility where you’d like to donate prior to dropping off any items. We’ll schedule a time and date to accept your donation.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still able to accept some donations of brand-new items. The best way to give back is by fundraising and making a monetary contribution to your preferred AHN Volunteer Resource Program. This allows us to purchase items on your behalf from our trusted suppliers and limit the number of hands in the donation process. Please email the Volunteer Department at the facility you wish to donate to.  

Items that can be donated

Your donated items have a profound positive impact on patients at AHN facilities, and we appreciate the role you play in helping provide a remarkable health care experience. Our patients benefit most from:

  • Word search, sudoku, crossword, or adult coloring books.
  • Novels, books, and journals.
  • Puzzles, playing cards, magazines, and games like checkers, chess, dominos, etc.
  • Reading glasses (all strengths).
  • Get-well cards or blank greeting cards.
  • Personal care items like lip balm, mini unscented hand lotion, slipper socks, or individually wrapped mints.
  • Fleece, crocheted, knit, or cotton hats, blankets, and shawls.
  • Cloth masks, port pillows, or personal pillows.
  • Fleece hats (winter), baseball caps, turbans, or
    head scarves.
  • Art supplies like packs of construction paper, markers, crayons, drawing pencils, notebooks, packs of colored pencils, and pencil sharpeners. 

Service projects

If you’re a student looking to complete a service project, contact your preferred location to learn about additional needs and ways to give back. 

Monetary donations

If you’d like to make a monetary contribution, sponsor a program, or make a large donation, email the volunteer location where you wish to donate and we’ll connect you to the appropriate contact in the AHN Office of Development.  

To contact us about donations

If you’re interested in making a donation to a specific hospital or program, you can send an email to the specific location below. 

AHN hospitals

Allegheny General Hospital
aghvol@ahn.org

Allegheny General Hospital – Suburban Campus
aghvol@ahn.org

Allegheny Valley Hospital

avhvol@ahn.org

Canonsburg Hospital

canonsburgvol@ahn.org

Forbes Hospital

FHVOL@ahn.org

Jefferson Hospital

jeffersonvol@ahn.org

Saint Vincent Hospital

svhvolunteers@ahn.org

Westfield Memorial Hospital

svhvolunteers@ahn.org

West Penn Hospital

WPHVOL@ahn.org

AHN Health + Wellness Pavilions

  • Bethel Park Health + Wellness
  • Erie East Health + Wellness
  • Erie West Health +Wellness
  • Peters Township Health + Wellness
  • Wexford Health + Wellness

OutpatientVolunteer@ahn.org

AHN Cancer Institute locations

  • Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute – Butler
  • Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute – Beaver
  • Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute – Erie
  • Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute – Forbes

OutpatientVolunteer@ahn.org