Many Ways to Help: Your Gift to Kidpower Goes a Long Way
Kidpower is a community based not for profit organization and we need support from the businesses and individuals who make up our communities-from you.
Any kind of financial support or donation is very much appreciated and put to work helping empower people of all ages and abilities. Any gift, no matter how small, really will make a difference in the lives of our students. Please scroll down to see some of the different ways you can give.
"The Kidpower skills can save lives. Knowing and practicing a few basic yet powerful People Safety skills can make a huge difference in the lives of our children and in the level of happiness and safety we feel as parents. In this challenging economic time, Kidpower has to fight hard for available funding. Kidpower relies more than ever before on the support of people like us."
Natalia and Jorge Gabrea Tejada are co-founders and directors of Hiruko, a family wellness center, and the home of our Silicon Valley Office. Their PowFunSun community event has raised over $10,000 for Kidpower!
Here are some of the different ways you can donate:
Cash Donations
Financial contributions are needed most of all. We can accept cash donations in two different ways:
- By mail - mail a check made out to Kidpower to P.O. Box 1212 Santa Cruz, CA 95061
- Online - to complete an online donation form, click here
Donations in Lieu of Gifts
One creative way to help Kidpower is to ask family and friends to make donations to us in lieu of birthday, holiday, or wedding gifts.
Long Term Giving
There are ways for you to make a contribution with a long-term impact -monthly donations, bequests, beneficiary tools such as life insurance or retirement plans naming Kidpower as the beneficiary, or charitable trusts. Please consider a long-term way of helping us.
California attorney Deborah A. Malkin has offered to donate FREE estate planning services to anyone in California who is willing to leave a gift of $5,000 or more to Kidpower in their will. Ms. Malkin is a certified specialist in estate planning, trusts, and probate and is certified by the California State Bar Association. What she does for you will be fully confidential. For more information, please call her office at (831) 462-9100.
Buy our education materials
People find our materials to be entertaining and practical tools that help them to understand Kidpower skills and to teach them to the young people in their lives. To visit the Kidpower Safety Store, click here.
Make you shopping dollars work for you
Go to eScrip and to iGive.com and choose to support Kidpower international. We will receive a percentage of your purchase amount when you shop at participating stores.
Make your online searches count
Go to GoodSearch.com and choose to support Kidpower International. Every single internet search you do will result in another gift to Kidpower.
Get a little more from those bulging closets and garages
eBay will action off items worth $50 or more and you can take a tax deduction by donating the proceeds to Kidpower.
Company Partnerships
From sponsoring events to organizing workshops, there are lots of ways for your business to be involved:
- Sponsorship: Sponsor workshops for your employees or your community.
- Workplace giving: Along with payroll deduction giving through United Way and other such entities, many employers match charitable gifts that their employees give, or invite charities to speak to employees on site.
- Marthons: Most running, swimming, walking, or biking marathons accept entries from teams running together for charity—could your employees and colleagues run to support Kidpower?
Please email Erika at erika@kidpower.org to find out more or call Irene at (0) 1-831-426-4407 ext.6#
Vehicle Donation Program
You can donate your car, boat, trailer, RV, motorcycle or other vehicle to Kidpower from anywhere in the greater SF Bay/Santa Cruz county area through vehiclesforcharity.com. Help Kidpower, get a tax deduction, and have the full process handled for you. One call does it all!
Call: 1-800-574-0888