How Can You Support The Arc?
Over nearly six decades of advocacy, The Arc has worked steadily to achieve equality for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Our advocacy has changed the lives, opportunities and perceptions of people with IDD living right here in our community.
To ensure that all individuals and families have access to The Arc's transformative support, our programs have always been offered free of charge. What's more, to ensure that The Arc is always working in the best interests of people with IDD and their families without constraint, we don't receive any government funding. Instead, we rely on the generosity of donors like you to support these programs.
Free, independent, life-changing advocacy.
Your charitable gift will help us keep this promise and protect the programs that so many individuals and families depend on. This section is an overview of ways you can provide financial support for The Arc.
If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Holan at (303) 232-1338 or by email at jennifer@arcjc.org.
Monthly Giving
Making a monthly gift helps provide a steady flow of support for our work to bring real progress to people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Whether you prefer to give by credit card or through preauthorized deductions from your bank account, donations from The Arc's Empowerment Partners are a promise that everyone will have access to free, life-changing advocacy when they need it most.
Changemakers Society (Estate & Planned Gifts)
The Arc's Changemaker Society is an opportunity for The Arc’s supporters to leave a lasting legacy of social change for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Becoming a Changemaker can be as simple as naming The Arc in your will, trust, or beneficiary designation.
For more information, contact Jennifer Holan at jennifer@arcjc.org.
Community of Hope (Major Gifts)
Launched in 2007 as part of our Summit of Hope Community Awareness Luncheon, the Community of Hope is a group for donors who have given at least $5,000 to support The Arc's programs, whether all at once or accumulated over time.
Employer Match
Many organizations will match their employees' gifts to nonprofits. Check with your Human Resources Department to see if your organization provides an Employer Match.
Workplace Giving
The Arc works with several organizations to provide opportunities for Workplace Giving. Click on the link below to learn more.
Many additional employers also offer their own workplace giving campaigns, and donors can simply write-in The Arc to any campaign by using our EIN #23-7162049.
Vehicle Donations
Turn your old car into new opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities! It doesn't matter if your old car has some blemishes, a little rust, a dead battery or worse. The Arc can take your old car in any shape as a donation and turn it into cash to directly help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with such needs as employment, education, housing and advocacy to ensure they are treated with dignity and respect.
Choose from one of our two Vehicle Donation Partners. Both will pick up your car for free and provide you with the documentation you need for a tax deduction:
Click here to arrange your free pickup with Vehicles for Charity.
To make sure the donation comes to our chapter:
In the “Donate your vehicle to” box, start typing our name like this
The Arc - Jefferson, Clear Creek & Gilpin Counties
and our full chapter name will pop up.
Click here to arrange your free pickup with CARS.
To make sure the donation comes to our chapter:
Select “Colorado” as your state in the first pull down menu.
Then, select our chapter from the next pull down menu:
The Arc Jefferson, Clear Creek & Gilpin Counties.
Whichever partner you choose to work with, making sure our chapter’s name is shown on your form will ensure the donation will come to us directly!
