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We Offer Different Ways To Donate
Our desire at Helping Hands is to help you connect your passion to purpose and resources to transformation.
Whatever role you play in increasing our ability to meet the needs of our community's families, know that your partnership is how God provides what we need to carry out His plan in this ministry. Your financial gift does make a difference, as it helps us to facilitate change in the at-risk families in our local communities by providing all services and programs for FREE. We are humbly grateful for your generosity and recognize that together we can create a stronger, healthier community!
Financially
WRITE A CHECK
PLEASE MAIL CHECKS TO:
Helping Hands
116 East Dustman Road, Suite B
Bluffton, IN 46714
BANK WITHDRAWAL
Give monthly by setting up an automatic bank withdrawal. We are only charged $0.30 per donation. Payments are processed on the first of the month. We can take this information over the phone at 260-824-4263 or click the button below.
Bank Withdrawal
CREDIT CARD
Consistantly
Why Become a Monthly Hero or Annual Champion?
When you become a Monthly Hero or Annual Champion, you partner with us in the day-to-day operations, helping us to confidently and consistently meet operational costs. This allows us to have a greater focus on community outreach, enhancing and growing our programs, adding new medical services, and more. While the programs and services we offer are free to our clients, there is still a cost for Helping Hands when it comes to materials, time, and operation.
The Difference
Our programs and services have an appreciation for life that extends beyond a pregnancy and birth but are designed to initiate and build relationships with women, men and their children of all ages. We desire abundant life (John 10:10) for those we serve: basic needs are met, positive relationships, healthy pregnancies and children, life-affirming choices, and most importantly - eternal hope.
Specifically
Materially
Many of the families we serve face immediate, practical needs. By donating material items, you can help provide essential resources while creating opportunities for encouragement, support, and connection.
Host a drive!
At Helping Hands, donations of material items (like diapers, wipes, baby soap, etc), and non-perishable food help us make a meaningful impact in the lives of local families. These resources provide practical support and help ease some of the financial pressures that come with raising a family. Interested in hosting a drive? Connect with Helping Hands and we'll provide a list of the most-needed items for our Helping Hands Store and Food Pantry. Together, we can ensure families have access to the essentials they need.
Food Pantry
Our food pantry helps families access groceries and household essentials during challenging seasons. Donations of non-perishable food items and frozen meat help ensure that no family has to face hardship alone. We also accept freezer meals, which are especially valuable when a client family is experiencing a crisis or unexpected emergency.
Family Store
Through our Store, families can earn items by participating in programs and working toward personal goals. Donations of diapers, wipes, baby equipment, children's clothing, hygiene products, dish soap, laundry detergent, tools, kitchen items and other household essentials help parents provide for their families while preserving dignity and encouraging growth. Please note that we cannot accept used cribs, Pack 'n Plays, or car seats.
Gas & Grocery Gift Cards
Families can use earned credits to redeem gift cards for gas and groceries. These gift cards provide practical support and help alleviate some of the financial pressures that come with raising a family.
Vehicle Donations
Donating a vehicle is a meaningful way to support Helping Hands' families. Reliable transportation can be life-changing for those working toward employment, education, medical appointments, and greater stability. In 2025, Helping Hands received its first vehicle donation and was able to gift it to a single mother in need. The impact was truly transformative. If you have a reliable vehicle in good condition that you no longer need, consider donating it to Helping Hands.
Other Ways To Donate
Gifts In A Will
Your legacy could be helping break the generational cycle of neglect and abuse!
Gifts in a will or by beneficiary designation are two easy ways to make a life changing difference in the future of our communities families — and they don’t cost anything now. Making a legacy gift in your will or trust is one of the easiest and most popular ways to make a lasting impact for Helping Hands and our mission in our community. Once you have provided for your loved ones, we hope you will consider helping create stronger and healthier families as a part of your life story through a legacy gift. Please let us know if you’ve included a gift for Helping Hands in your will or through a beneficiary designation. Providing us with documentation is the best way to ensure that your gift is used in the way you intend.
LASTING IMPACT
Your gift will create your legacy of helping children break free from poverty.
FLEXIBLE
You can alter your gift or change your mind at any time and for any reason.
NO COST
Costs you nothing now to give in this way.
Charitable Remainder Trusts
A Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) is a tax-free trust that pays you and/or other beneficiaries an annual distribution. This payment is either a percentage of the annual value of the trust, or a percentage of the original gift amount.
HOW IT WORKS:
- You transfer cash or an appreciated asset* into an irrevocable trust.
- The trustee then sells the asset, paying no capital gains tax, and reinvests the proceeds.
- For the rest of your life (or a term of years), you and/or another beneficiary receive payments from the trust.
- After your lifetime, the remaining principal is used to support the mission of Helping Hands.
* While donating real estate is the most common way to fund a charitable trust, a wide variety of assets can be used, including cash, appreciated publicly traded or closely held stock, as well as oil, gas or mineral interests.
BENEFITS TO YOU INCLUDE:
- You receive income for life for you or your heirs.
- You receive a charitable income tax credit for the charitable portion of the trust.
- You create your legacy of caring for the families in your local community.
Stocks and Securities
When you give stock or securities (stock, bonds, mutual funds), you may be eligible for a double tax benefit:
- You receive an income tax deduction for the full, present, fair market value of the assets and
- You may completely avoid capital gains tax on the appreciation of the assets. This is one of the easiest gifts to give and one of the most useful in accomplishing your philanthropic goals.
Retirement Assets
A gift of your retirement assets, such as an employee retirement plan, IRA, or tax-sheltered annuity, is an excellent way to make a gift. A gift of these assets can shield you or your heirs from taxes while funding the mission of Helping Hands.
Life Insurance
Transfer ownership now:
To make an impact on our mission today, irrevocably designate Helping Hands as owner and beneficiary of an existing life insurance policy. If your policy is paid up, you will receive an immediate income tax deduction based on the policy value.
If your policy is not yet paid up, you will make contributions of cash to Helping Hands to cover future premium payments. For any continuing premium payments you make, you will receive a charitable deduction in the year of the payment.
Name us as a beneficiary:
You can name Helping Hands as a beneficiary of all or a portion of your life insurance policy. With this gift arrangement, Helping Hands will receive the proceeds of your policy when you pass away. You can change your beneficiary at any time.
This gift is easy to arrange — simply request a beneficiary designation form from your plan administrator.
AmazonSmile
If you register on Smile.Amazon.com with Helping Hands selected as the cause you support and use smile.amazon.com to do your shopping, the AmazonSmile Foundation will make a small donation of a portion of your purchases to Helping Hands! To find Helping Hands, enter our EIN: 45-4998438. Remember, to make sure a portion of your amazon purchases go to Helping Hands, you must shop on smile.amazon.com, not amazon.com. Want to use the mobile app and support Help Hands? Open the Amazon app and find 'Settings' in the main menu (☰). Tap on 'AmazonSmile' and follow the on-screen instructions to turn on AmazonSmile on your phone.