What your gift can do

$1 per pay period provides a senior citizen who has become blind with four hours of Braille instruction.
$3 per pay period provides financial budgeting workshops for 15 homeowners, giving them ongoing support to be successful homeowners. (City of Lakes Community Land Trust)
$5 per pay period supports a campus educational event on issues like campaign finance reform, environmental policy, or higher education debt relief.
$10 per pay period increases safety by helping to pay for the installation of night watch lighting at 40 homes in North Minneapolis.

$3 per pay period provides a comfortable, private space for ovarian cancer support groups to meet.
$5 per pay period provides 12 families of newborn babies in intensive care with information and support to ease their fears and uncertainty.
$10 per pay period covers the cost of a family grieving the loss of a child to stay overnight and experience personalized programming, which is key to the healing process.

$3 per pay period provides free tax assistance for five working families, resulting in over $2,000 in tax refunds returned to each family to help them with basic needs like food and shelter.
$5 per pay period provides 12 preschool classrooms with toothbrushes and toothpaste to support healthy dental habits.
$10 per pay period provides 20 hours of health care screenings for uninsured people.

$3 per pay period provides recycling bins at your recreation center or library so that you can recycle away from home.
$5 per pay period provides tools for volunteers for a community tree planting to replace trees lost to storms, insects, or urban sprawl.
$10 per pay period provides two days of labor for improving national park trails.

$3 per pay period provides 50 nutritious meals for people at an on-site food program served by dedicated volunteers offering a helping hand and hope.
$5 per pay period provides five elementary school children with back packs filled with essential school supplies – giving students a head start on the new school year and learning success!
$10 per pay period provides more than 2,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables at one of Minnesota’s Feeding America food banks.

$3 per pay period helps pay general fees.
$5 per pay period helps pay fees for one semester.
$10 per pay period helps pay for supplies for one year.

$3 per pay period allows one learning/emotionally disabled youth to work with professional actors, poets, dancers, and visual artists using integrative arts as a tool for self-expression.
$5 per pay period buys inks that allow economically challenged youth to experience printmaking and take home a unique work of art.
$10 per pay period builds creativeness and confidence in 10 inner-city homeless youth by engaging them in a sculpture workshop.