for your kindness
in supporting the House of Hope. Your generosity will help us
continue providing life-saving and life-changing programs to
hundreds of mothers and their children right here in Lowell
every year.
Using these pages, you can make an online donation to our Current Fundraising
Campaign or to our Operating
Fund (for a Specific Use, and/or as a Memorial
or Honorary Gift to be acknowledged to an honoree or their family),
and you can learn about how to make the House of Hope a beneficiary
through special bequests.
The House of Hope is a 501(3)(c) organization. Your donation
is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Our Tax
Donation ID # is 042867965.
To give you an idea of the kind of impact your donation makes:
- A $50 dollar donation will buy a complete back-to-school
outfit including brand name sneakers for one of our youngsters.
- $200 will cover the cost of 12-step program material for
a year.
- $800 will buy a new computer and remedial learning software
for our homework area.
- $350 will enable the replacement of old carpeting with
allergy-free linoleum in one of our bedrooms.
- $500 will allow us to rent a bus for a day to bring the
whole House of Hope Community on an educational or recreational
field trip.
- $50 will cover the cost of supper for one night.
- $75 will cover the costs of diapers for one month.
- $125 will cover the monthly cost of resident postage required
for housing applications and other business.
- $600 will cover the average cost of electricity or natural
gas (heating) for a month.
- $1,000 will provide all aspects of emergency shelter for
one family for one week.
- $25 buys laundry detergent for all families and shelter
needs for one week.
- $25 buys paper towels, napkins, and toilet paper for a
week.
- and even $1 will allow us to do more for a family than
we could have done without your help.
Your gift could be doubled, or even tripled, if your employer
offers a matching gift program. The Shelter currently receives
matching gifts from many local companies. If you or your spouse
works for one of these companies, please contact your Human
Resources Department for the appropriate paperwork.
For questions about Food Donations, please call Margo Maloney
at (978) 458-2870.
The women, children and staff of the House of Hope thank you
for your generosity and loving support!