Are You Considering Making a Gift to the Samaritan Center?

WHAT IS THE CHALLENGE?

The Samaritan Center has always tried to make its services available to persons without regard to their ability to pay. For many of the people we serve, we provide healing, hope and growth in ways that are life-giving and life-saving.

Our fees are among the lowest in the community. Still, because we set fees according to the actual cost of delivering services, we rely on benevolent giving to offset fee reductions given to persons who cannot afford the full cost. Your gift can bring new life to someone who might otherwise not receive help.

All gifts to the Samaritan Center are fully tax-deductible due to our status as an exempt 501 (C)3 organization. Each gift to the Center will be acknowledged with a letter certifying the gift and serving as official documentation of your charitable contribution for tax purposes. If you wish your gift to remain anonymous, please indicate this in your communication to us. Otherwise, our givers are listed in our Annual Report by level, which is determined by the amount of their total giving for that year. Due to the anonymous nature of the Silent Samaritan Fund, we do not publish the names of Silent Samaritan contributors.

Contributions to any of these funds are used for only one purpose: to help persons who could not otherwise afford the full cost of services at the Samaritan Center.

Samaritan General Fund
This fund helps a wide variety of clients including: couples in conflict; adults recovering from childhood abuse; families concerned about struggling children; adults who are hindered in their day-to-day life by depression, anxiety, panic, loss or grief; and adolescents who may be facing relationship dilemmas, identity struggles, or suicidal thoughts and feelings.

Silent Samaritan Fund
This fund involves women helping women. Almost two-thirds of the clients seen at the Samaritan Center are women, and women are often most vulnerable financially at the very time they most need counseling help. The Silent Samaritan program is run by women on the Samaritan Center's Board of Directors; they solicit gifts for use only in helping women get the help they need. Gifts are made anonymously. Each year, this fund helps women to attain wholeness in the face of spousal abuse, childhood physical, sexual or emotional abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. Women receiving Silent Samaritan assistance benefit not only from the help they receive, but also from knowing that other women care enough to give them this life-changing gift.

Small-Fry Samaritan Fund
Inagurated in 2000, this fund was created to assist children. Children may receive help for issues such as abuse, coping with family problems or divorce, or behavior problems at home or at school. Donors to the Small-Fry Fund help children learn to deal constructively with their problems and greatly increase the chances of these children growing up to be well-adjusted, productive citizens.

Pastors Referral Fund
As part of our partnership in ministry with local congregations, contributions to this fund enable the Samaritan Center to make vouchers available to pastors. Each pastor receives a voucher annually; the voucher can be redeemed for an initial consultation at no cost. This Fund enables pastors to refer their parishioners to the Samaritan Center with confidence that finances will not be an issue in getting started.

Assistance for Veterans
The Samaritan Center is approved through the Veterans Administration to provide readjustment counseling for veterans struggling with service-related difficulties. The Veterans Fund provides continuity of care at times when government funding lapses. These veterans have served their country with distinction and at great personal cost; the Veterans Fund ensures that they receive help in a continuous, dependable manner.

The Kintner-Ross Endowment Fund
This Fund, managed by the Elkhart County Community Foundation, is named after the two individuals most responsible for the founding and evolution of the Samaritan vision. Contributions to this Fund are permanently restricted - that is, the actual contribution remains permanently in the care of the ECCF, which annually distributes a portion of the Fund's earnings to the Samaritan Center. A Kintner-Ross Endowment gift will "keep on giving" as long as there is a Samaritan Center - and will help ensure that there is a Samaritan Center forever!

The Capital Fund
This Fund provides for the long-term capital expenditures faced by any organization. Gifts to this Fund help provide for the bricks-and-mortar (as well as computer-and-copier) needs that are essential to the effectiveness and survival of the agency.

The Development Funds
These Funds provide for ongoing education and professional development at the Samaritan Center. With this general fund are these sub-categories:

• The Community Education Fund helps fund educational presentations that Samaritan Center professionals make in the community.
  
• The Therapist Education Fund provides for the continuing educational needs of our professionals.

The Operating Fund
This Fund supports for the day-to-day business operation of the Samaritan Center, helping hold down ongoing costs.

1. The donor should provide a Letter of Authority to his or her broker stating which security, the amount of shares to be transferred, and when to process the gift transfer. Below are our electronic transfer instructions: 
   
   Wachovia Securities
   DTC Clearing 0141
   Account: 7295-5000
   FBO: The Samaritan Center
   
   
2. The donor should either call or send written notice of the incoming gift to the Samaritan Center (574-262-3597) or Wachovia Securities (800-962-6085). Otherwise, we have no way of tracing gifts and are not able to provide a letter of receipt for tax purposes.
   
3. Upon receipt of the gift transfer, Wachovia will sell the stock on behalf of the Center, then send the proceeds to the Center. The Center will then acknowledge the gift with a letter which can be used for tax purposes.
   
   
4. Please note that securities can be brought in to any Wachovia Securities  office for deposit into the Center's account in Elkhart, Indiana.
   
   Elizabeth N. Borger
   Wachovia Securities Incorporated
   200 Junior Achievement Dr #300
   Elkhart, IN 46516
   (574) 295-6581 or (800) 962-6085