If you wish to make a donation by check, please make it payable to Lampion Center. Checks may be mailed to: 655 S.Hebron, Evansville, Indiana 47714

Here are some of the other ways that you can support Lampion Center:

We have partnered with GiveandShop.com, a website where you can give while you shop. Basically the way this site works is they setup a connection to major retailers where you can go and do your online shopping, they then give half of the commission earned from your purchase to charity. So, every time you go through GiveandShop.com to buy your online products at no additional cost, half of the commission from your purchase can go to Lampion Center. Here is the site; www.GiveandShop.com

This can also be a good way for your friends to give as well, here is a link to tell them about the site; http://www.giveandshop.com/tellafriend.asp

• Cash
  Cash gifts are the most common gifts. Your gift before December 31 of each year means you could pay less at tax time. Call for additional information about specific programs such as annual support and commemorative giving.
• Securities
  Stocks, bonds, money market funds, etc. are some of the most advantageous ways of giving. If you give appreciated stock you have owned for more than a year, you may deduct the full market value as a charitable contribution.
• Real Estate
  You may deduct the full fair-market value as a charitable contribution, provided you have owned the property for more than a year.
• Insurance
  When you make Lampion Center the owner and beneficiary of your paid-up life insurance policy, your charitable contribution is generally the replacement value or cost basis of the policy, whichever is less. Premiums paid on a gifted life insurance policy also qualify for a charitable deduction.
• Personal Property
  Gifts related to the mission of Lampion Center are fully tax deductible at fair-market value. Gifts which are not related to the agency's tax exempt purpose are limited to the cost basis for determining your deduction.
• Charitable Trust
  The charitable trust can offer tax savings while providing an annual income to you or your family. The charitable trust is funded with an asset, such as appreciated property or securities, which may be sold by the trust and the proceeds reinvested to produce greater yield for you.
• Charitable Gift Annuity
  The charitable gift annuity is a combination gift and investment. In exchange for a transfer of cash or marketable securities, Lampion Center will contractually guarantee a lifetime payment of a specific annuity amount to the donor and/or a beneficiary.
• Estate Planning
  You can leave a legacy for the families of Evansville by simply making Lampion Center a beneficiary in your will. You may consider leaving your assets in trust, assigning the income to one or two beneficiaries and the trust principal to Lampion Center.
• Other Forms of Giving
  There are a variety of plans which can bring immediate benefits to you while greatly helping support Lampion Center and your community. These include family business gifts and commemorative or memorial gifts.
  

Vicki Nelson, Development Director  vnelson@lampioncenter.com