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WHBW participates in Guidestar, the on-line standard for nonprofit accountability. Take a look at our listing by clicking on the Guidestar logo below.
Domestic violence prevention continues to be a grass roots effort. The work continues only through the support of dedicated people in local communities. Without your help, there are few options in our community for women and children caught in this terrible cycle.
Save a life.
Every $25 donation ensures
that one caller will receive hotline counseling, emergency planning and
emotional support any time, night or day.
Prevent
homelessness.
Every $50
provides one woman or child with emergency food, a safe place to stay and
transition assistance.
Break the
cycle.
Every $100 donation provides a child
witness of domestic violence with educational playgroups and support
groups for a month.
Keep a family safe in their own
home.
Every $500 pays for the
legal advocacy for a woman and two children to remain safely in their own
home.
Make a difference in our
community.
Every $1000 provides workshops
and educational material for 100 young people in our community.
With your gift, we are able to provide:
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24-hour, 7-day a week hotline services
• Emergency
shelter services
•
Children’s
programming
•
Legal advocacy
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Prevention, education and
outreach
You can donate NOW online by clicking on
the logo below. You will receive a receipt in the mail. Thank you for your
support! 
or
Please
mail your tax-deductible contribution to Women Helping Battered Women, at
P.O. Box 1535, Burlington, VT 05402.
or
You can call 802/658-3131 and use your credit card
to make a donation over the phone.
WHBW will accept any item on our wish list which is dropped off during business hours at our public office. Please call for the address or if you have questions about an item you are thinking about donating. Cell phones, cell phone batteries and chargers are accepted at the WHBW public offices (call for address and hours) as well any Chittenden Solid Waste District Drop-Off Center has a collection to benefit WHBW. The cell phones can be any age, in any condition and even have missing parts. We accept them all. Please call CSWD at 872-8100 for location information and hours of drop-off centers. Please call WHBW at 658-3131 for our address and hours to drop off wish list items.
Currently, we are no longer in need of items for our new Transitional Housing Program. Thank you for your generosity! WHBW is collaborating with the Burlington Community Land Trust (BCLT), and the Burlington Housing Authority (BHA) to provide transitional housing for victims of domestic violence in Chittenden County, Vermont. This project will address immediate and long-term transitional housing needs for battered women and children. In the first of the two phases of the grant, WHBW has furnish ed and leased an apartment for survivors of domestic violence.
If you are interested in making a non-cash donation of household items, computers or other goods not listed on our wish list, please call 802/658-3131.
Can you hear me now? Support WHBW's Used Cell Phone Campaign!
Keep sending us your cell phones! Collect used cell phones from your co-workers, family members or customers and drop them off at WHBW! Proceeds from the collection efforts will assist WHBW in providing emergency services to women and children whose lives have been affected due to domestic violence. You can help by volunteering to organize a campaign at your workplace, school, neighborhood or place of business or recreation! Download our post-able flyer or make your own! Contact Lisa at 658-3131 ext 1063 for more information about the campaign.
You may have enjoyed significant gains in the stock market and other investments. If you own stock, bonds or mutual funds that have appreciated in value, you have a unique opportunity to realize double tax savings by making an outright gift! First, you would earn a federal income tax deduction for the full fair market value of the securities as long as you have owned them for longer than one year. Second, you would avoid all of the capital gains tax that would be due on the sale of the securities.
Note: Please consult your financial or legal advisor for more details on stock donations.
Double Your Donation!
Many companies offer matching gift programs to encourage employees to contribute to charitable organizations. Most of these programs match contributions dollar for dollar, and some will even double or triple the amount of your gift!
Please check with your company to see if it offers a matching gift program that will match your gift to Women Helping Battered Women.
Making a planned gift or a bequest to WHBW ensures support for future survivors of domestic violence. Planned gifts such as charitable annuities and charitable trusts provide income and tax benefits to donors. Our staff would be happy to have a personalized, confidential gift example prepared for you. Bequests enable a donor to make a significant gift that might otherwise not be possible. A bequest may leave to WHBW a specific cash amount or property, or it may reserve for WHBW a certain percentage of the property remaining after provisions for family members and other beneficiaries. In addition to cash and securities, bequests to WHBW may include life insurance, real estate, works of art, IRA accounts, etc. To make a bequest through your Will (particularly in the case of life insurance or IRA accounts), we suggest consulting with your attorney. You should describe the item and state your intention to give that particular item to Women Helping Battered Women. Here are two samples of such a bequest:
"I give, devise and bequeath $________ (state sum of money or otherwise describe security or property) to Women Helping Battered Women, to be used for its general purposes."
"I give, bequeath, and devise (all or ___ percent of) the rest, residue and remainder of the property, both real and personal, wherever situated, which I may own or be entitled to at my death, to Women Helping Battered Women, to be used for its general purposes."
Note: Your personal financial situation is unique. You should discuss your estate plans with your family and your financial and legal advisors before making any charitable gift.
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