Monetary Donations
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Your contribution of any amount to Joseph’s Home will help to provide safe shelter, nourishing meals, nursing care, transportation to medical appointments, and a wide range of social services tailored to the unique needs of each resident.
To donate by phone, contact Development Director Madeline Wallace at 216.897.9201. To donate by mail, send your check payable to:
Joseph’s Home, 2412 Community College Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115
Your gifts (of all sorts) make a lasting impact on the vulnerable, sick homeless men that come to Joseph’s Home for healing. Please also consider making a contribution through the following:
- Donor-Advised Funds: Recommend a gift to Joseph’s Home through your donor advised fund using the following information:
- Our Federal Identification Number (EIN): 34-1901676
- Our Mailing Address: 2412 Community College Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115
- Retirement Assets: Over 70 1/2? You may be able to satisfy your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) by gifting the amount directly to Joseph’s Home with no negative tax consequences.
- Stocks: If you are interested in donating stocks, please contact Development Director Madeline Wallace at 216.987.9201 or [email protected].
Monetary donations to Joseph’s Home are tax deductible to the full extent of the law. Shortly after receiving your gift we will send you a letter certifying that you received no goods or services in exchange for your gift.
Planned Giving
Making Joseph’s Home a beneficiary of your will, trust, or other legacy plan is a thoughtful way to provide life-transforming care for future residents of Joseph’s Home and leave an inspiring philanthropic legacy.
- Will or Trust: Include a gift for Joseph’s Home in your will or trust, designating a specific dollar amount or percentage.
- Retirement Assets: Make Joseph’s Home the beneficiary of your retirement assets. Over 70 1/2? You may be able to satisfy your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) by gifting the amount directly to Joseph’s Home with no negative tax consequences.
- Life Insurance: Consider naming Joseph’s Home as a primary life insurance beneficiary or as a contingent beneficiary should your other beneficiaries not survive you. After your lifetime, the benefits from your policy pass to Joseph’s Home. To make this gift, simply contact your insurance carrier and request a beneficiary form.
- Charitable Gift Annuities: A charitable gift annuity with Joseph’s Home is a gift that gives back. It can provide you and/or another beneficiary with stable income for life. You may also receive an immediate income tax deduction.
For more information or to discuss planned giving opportunities, contact Development Director Madeline Wallace at 216.987.9201 or [email protected]
In-Kind Donations
The residents of Joseph’s Home are often in need of basic necessities such as clothing, hygiene items and housewares (once they are ready to live independently). Our in-kind donation wish list changes with the needs of our residents and alumni. Do you have something you would like to donate that you don’t see on the list? Contact us at 216.987.9201 to see if it is one of our current needs.
We are frequently in need of the following items:
- Gift Cards: Target, Giant Eagle, Walmart, Visa Gift Card
- Gently used or new clothing for all occasions and seasons: (adult male sizes): Underwear (new), Socks (new), Undershirts, Shoes, Pants, Shirt
- Personal hygiene items: Razors, Shaving Cream, Soap, Toothbrushes Toothpaste, Shampoo, Deodorant, Hairbrushes
- Small household items: Bedding, Towels, Dishes, Pots & Pans, Microwaves, TVs, Silverware, Kitchenware, Hangers, Lamps
- Art Supplies: Canvases, Acrylic Paint, Paint Brushes
Please contact Development Director Madeline Wallace at 216.987.9201 if you have items to donate. Click here to download a printable description of our Donation Drive Planning Kit and In-Kind Donation Wish List.
Each time a resident is successfully discharged from Joseph’s Home, we send him off with a “care kit” to help him establish his new home. This care kit contains home essentials such as pots and pans, sheets and blankets, towels, dinnerware, dishes – everything that makes a home comfortable and safe. Please consider helping a newly discharged resident of Joseph’s Home start his new life in his new home by assembling your own care kit.
Residents who have completed their housing search are often in need of furniture such as beds, tables, dressers and lamps. Before you discard any unneeded items like these, please contact Development Director Madeline Wallace at 216.987.9201 to see if one of our men would benefit from your donation.
Are you interested in coordinating your own donation drive to raise monetary donations or in-kind items for Joseph’s Home? Download our helpful tool kit that provides you with the resources to help you plan and coordinate your donation drive. If you have any questions, please contact Development Director Madeline Wallace at 216.987.9201 or [email protected].
Click here to download the donation drive planning kit.
Holiday Giving
During the holiday season, many people look to help our residents feel loved and supported – we call them our Christmas Angels. We do our best to make the holidays a special time for our residents and alumni and cannot do so without the help of friends like the Christmas Angels. Below is a list of items that our residents would enjoy receiving as gifts this holiday season:
- Gift Cards: Walmart, Grocery Store, Visa Gift Card
- Sweatshirts and sweatpants
- Twin size blankets, pillows, sheet sets
- Winter gloves, scarfs, and hats
If you would like more information about including Joseph’s Home in your church or parish’s giving tree or donation drive, please contact Development Director Madeline Wallace at 216.987.9201 or [email protected].
2019 Christmas Angels
In 2019, we received an unbelievable outpouring of love and generosity from many local parishes and groups. Thanks to many of our supporters, Joseph’s Home residents received Christmas presents that were collected through giving trees and donation drives. We would like to thank the following groups and families for their contributions and kind spirits:
- St. John Neumann Parish
- The Church of St. Clarence
- Church of the Gesu
- Church of the Saviour
- St. Basil Parish (St. Vincent de Paul group)
- Our Lady of Angels
- St. Augustine Church & Hunger Center
- Catholic Diocese of Cleveland Diaconate
- St. Bartholomew Parish
- The Gallagher Family
- St. Dominic Church
- Calvary Hill Church of God In Christ
- Tour of Good Cheer
- The Baena Family
- CISV Northeast Ohio
- The Schneider Family
- The Kwan Family
- The Keller Family
Corporate Giving
Sponsor an Event
Each year Joseph’s Home hosts two sponsored events: Perseverance in Hope: The Joseph’s Home Benefit Luncheon and the Warm Hands, Warm Hearts Happy Hour. For more information about these exciting opportunities, contact Development Director Madeline Wallace at 216.987.9201 or [email protected].