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How You Can Help
Monetary Contributions
You can donate with a credit card using JustGive!
Donations to the General Fund: The Youth Homes
is able to subsidize public funding and provide better quality care
and better relationships through staff longevity for our children
in need thanks to your donations to our General Fund. By giving
to the General Fund, you make a gift that allows us to keep our
mission possible. General fund contributions help pay for daily
needs, clothing, and other operating expenses, such as staff training,
food and transportation.
Special Activities Fund: Some examples of what
this fund provides are: visual arts scholarships; support of recreational
activities such as skiing or floating or riding; orthodontia; piano
lessons or music lessons and sports camps such as football and soccer.
Gift Designations: There are endless ways you
can specifically apply your gift according to your preferences and
passions. Your gifts can be designated to your favorite program
or home. You can also specialize what you want your gift to support
by talking with our development office.
Roots & Wings Monthly Giving Program:
Roots & Wings is a way in which you can give on a monthly
basis. Many of us find giving a smaller sum each month is a much
easier way to budget our charitable gifts. Therefore, we established
this very special way to give.
1. Why become a member of Roots & Wings?
- Our Annual Party tickets will be
mailed to you automatically!
- It’s CONVENIENT! You can decide how to set up your monthly
gift:
o Automatic transfer from your bank to ours
o Or we can mail you a monthly reminder and a postage paid envelope
in which you can make your monthly gift– you decide!
- It is up to you how much you would like to donate each month.
The minimum is only $5 a month…that translates into a
substantial gift towards the programs and services at Youth
Homes! Remember, YH is a 501c3 non-profit organization and
all gifts are tax deductible.
2. Why use Electronic Withdrawal to donate to Youth Homes?
- CONVENIENCE: Eliminate the hassles of writing a new check
every time you want to donate money. The funds are automatically
withdrawn each month.
- CONFIDENTIALITY: Donor information and account numbers remain
completely confidential, used only by First Interstate Bank
and Youth Homes.
- SECURITY: Every transaction is sent by Youth Homes to First
Interstate Bank via a secure website. These files are then sent
directly to the Federal Reserve Bank where the proper accounts
are debited and credited.
- PRIVACY: You will never have to worry about your checks being
or lost stolen with valuable personal information on them. All
transactions take place electronically.
Planned Giving
- Make a Lasting Gift to our Endowment: Gifts
to our Endowment mean you are making a lasting gift. Gifts to
our endowment are placed in irrevocable “trusts.”
The interest is used to provide unfunded services, enhance staffing
to meet needs of the children, make grants for graduates to pursue
advanced education, and address additional, needed services for
children and their families. Please consider our Endowment this
year…investing in YHI means making a difference in the life
of a child forever. State tax credits are available to support
planned gifts to a qualified endowment. Contact us if you have
questions about this or consult your legal or tax advisor. We
accept gifts of stock, real estate, bequests, memorials, in-kind
gifts, and planned gifts to our permanent Endowment.
- Remember to thing of updating or creating your will.
Legacy Montana is an awareness effort to educate the
public about planned giving. Locally, this effort was started
two year ago through the hard work of a collaboration of Missoula
non-profit organizations lead by Jean Bowman. This hard work paid
off. Because of this effort many non-profit agencies have received
a bequest, donors are able to receive accurate information about
planned gifts and most importantly, the awareness of how to leave
a legacy to your favorite non-profit has been heightened.
Youth Homes has benefited from being involved in Legacy Montana
(formerly Leave a Legacy) specifically because we are able to
get the word out that you can make a permanent impact on the work
we do at the Youth Homes! Charitable giving through your will
can be a way for you to continue touching the lives of so many
of the young boys and girls we will serve at our Homes. By exercising
your privilege to name Youth Homes as the recipient of some
or all of your estate, you ensure that your commitment to helping
youngsters goes on as a legacy of your caring. Legal forms should
only be prepared by your personal attorney. If you desire additional
information about the Legacy Montana visit the website www.legacymontana.org.
We appreciate knowing when you have made the decision to put us
in your will so that we may thank you.
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