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When you donate to Vital Bridges, you make possible bags of nutritious food and warm home delivered meals, nights of safe and affordable housing, hours of critical counseling sessions and numerous educational and vocational training classes for men, women and children living in poverty with HIV and AIDS.

As our valued donor, we want to make your gift giving convenient and accessible to you. When you donate to Vital Bridges, you have tremendous flexibility in determining how your funds will be used, as well as many options for making your gift. Please consider making a contribution today.

Ways to Make Your Gift

Single Gifts
When you make a gift to Vital Bridges, your contribution can be put to work immediately — either providing support for a specific program or creating a reliable source of operating revenue for the organization. Use our secure online giving form to make a gift with your VISA, MasterCard or American Express card.

Click here for more information to make your payment by check or telephone.

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Matching Gift Programs
Double or triple your donation to Vital Bridges through your company’s matching-gift program! Such programs typically match all or a percentage of employee contributions to charitable organizations, making the employer a partner in employees’ personal philanthropy. Simply obtain a matching-gift form from your employer’s personnel office, fill it out, and provide it to Vital Bridges with your contribution. We’ll process the matching gift with your company.

Extra Helpings
Consider our monthly pledge program. You decide on the level of your gift and we charge your credit card on the first of every month. This may allow you to give more generously than you originally considered. It adds up – a $25 monthly gift is $300 a year! At the end of the year we’ll prepare and send you a statement including a record of all your gifts for your income tax records.

Become an Extra Helpings donor today!

Honor & Memorial Gifts
Honor or remember a loved one, family member or friend by making a gift to Vital Bridges, and you’ll support our mission at the same time. If you are looking for a way to honor the memory of a loved one, or are unsure of what to give someone special for a birthday, anniversary, or other special occasion, an honor or memorial gift to Vital Bridges is the perfect answer. Honorees or designated family members of a memorial gift will receive a special card from Vital Bridges acknowledging your thoughtfulness.

Make an Honor or Memory gift today!

Gifts of Stocks and Other Securities
Giving stock or securities as a charitable donation is a smart way to make an immediate impact with your gift while benefiting from significant tax benefits. Your gift of securities will provide a two-fold tax benefit: a charitable deduction and avoidance of capital gains tax. Please call Vital Bridges’ Chief Business Development Officer at 773-271-9161 or more details.

Planned Giving
Contribute to Vital Bridges' future and the stability of clients’ lives by including a special gift in your estate plans. Consider including Vital Bridges in your will or designating the agency as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy or annuity. If you are interested in making a provision for Vital Bridges in your estate plans, please call us at 773-271-9161.

More information
For more information on other methods of donation or questions for the Resource Development Department, please contact us at 1-773-271-9161 or via email at donate@vitalbridges.org. A team member will contact you within two-business days of your call or email.

Correspondence or Donations By Mail
Resource Development Department
Vital Bridges
5543 N Broadway
Chicago, IL 60640

All gifts in support of Vital Bridges are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law.
Thank you for your support.