SPIRITT Family Services

Our success at SPIRITT Family Services is made possible by the ongoing support of people like you. Your generous gift is a tax-deductible donation, which will allow us to direct funds where they are most urgently needed; it will help counsel families, reduce homeless, feed the hungry, assist people with disabilities, empower survivors of violence...and so much more.

"I learned more than anything that family is very important and the attention we give our children. How important it is to talk to our children, play with them, eat with them and understand them. Also, it's important to fulfill their needs, prepare them for school, and be very patient with them."

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For any of the following, contact our development director, Perla Pelayo, at 562.236.5042 or perlap@spiritt.org

Major Gifts & Planned Giving

Donations of all sizes help ensure the future of SPIRITT Family Services. Donations over $5,000 are considered major gifts. Major gifts can be made in support of our facilities, programs, or services and are essential to our long-term success and ability to serve all those in need—now and for years to come.

Planned Giving

SPIRITT Family Services can help you choose from a portfolio of options that will meet your long term financial, tax and estate planning objectives, while continuing your support for families of our community. Choose from one of the many planned giving options including charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts and bequests.

Real Estate

You can deed real property to SPIRITT Family Services, in whole or in part, to benefit our agency. You can also deed a home to SPIRITT Family Services—receive a sizable, personal tax deduction, yet still occupy your home for life.

Private Family Foundations

Private Family Foundation support is an important resource for SPIRITT Family Services. Grants from these foundations support all of our services, through programs that reach children, families, individuals each year. Grants can be given for general operating support or can be designated for support of a particular SPIRITT program or project.

Corporate Giving

At SPIRITT Family Services, we are very fortunate to have many caring friends in the business community who believe that supporting people in need is an investment worth making.

SPIRITT Family Services professionals are available to assist corporations of all types, sizes and industries in structuring collaborations with our agency, in order meet the strategic goals of all participants.

Businesses have partnered with SPIRITT Family Services in the past through philanthropic support, sponsoring an event or donating products and services.

Scholarships

For over a decade, SPIRITT Family Services provides special events and conferences to meet the unique needs of entire community. Annual conferences include MOSAIC, CLARO, and Serena. These annual youth empowerment conferences are designed to enhance positive role modeling, peer support, and social skills. Through collaboration with community partnerships, the program seeks to minimize educational, economic, environmental, and developmental disparities. Youth are mentored with an emphasis on higher education/career development and self-esteem to reduce risk of involvement with juvenile justice system.

Through the support from our community, SPIRITT Family Services has awarded numerous scholarships to high school students with ambitions to continuing their education at a collegiate level. Scholarships are given based on GPA, essay, and recommendations.

Adopt-A-Family

The SPIRITT Family Services Adopt-A-Family program provides families in need with gifts during the December holiday season. In 2010, the SPIRITT Family programs served over 100 families in need of holiday gifts and food. Unfortunately, there are many more families in our community who will not have presents to give their children and family dinner during the holiday season, we hope through the generosity of our donors these families will be serve this upcoming holiday season.

This is a great opportunity for an individual or a group of people (office team, family members, or a group of friends) to work together to help others who are less fortunate.

Interested donors will receive a vignette of a family and the wish list from a family in need, as well as the information as to the dates for dropping off the gifts to one of our SPIRITT Family Services locations in your area.

Please note that the items our families request are all based on needs and not wants. Gift cards to grocery stores and to Target/Walmart are greatly appreciated.

School is Cool

School is Cool's goal is to prepare children to start the school year with the tools they need to feel competent, motivated and proud to attend school.

This annual event accomplishes its goal by providing backpacks, furnished with the necessary basic school supplies, identified by case workers, who live below poverty level.

We provide students with basic school supplies they are unable to purchase themselves. We collect everything!! back packs, colored pencils, composition books, highlighter pens, #2 lead pencils, 3 ring binder notebooks, notebook paper, pencil sharpeners, pencil cap erasers, glue sticks, scissors, pocket folders, Elmer’s glue, pens, crayons, and rulers.

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