Ways to give
Every route in, with an honest sentence about each one — so nobody has to guess what is behind a menu item.
The simplest thing you can do is keep one room ready.
$150 covers one night for a mother and child: two beds, fresh sheets and a crib, blankets and pillows, toiletries and fresh towels, a private shower, and three full meals.
Give it once. Or give it monthly, which is worth more than the same money once a year, because it is the only kind of income we can plan around.
Your name goes on the tree.
The Cornerstone Society is a five-year pledge, from $1,000 a year, and every family who makes it is painted onto the wall at 238 North Munn Avenue. It is the only giving we can plan around — and planning is most of what keeps a room ready.
Give for the long term
The Cornerstone Society, above, is the five-year version of this. A donor-advised fund is the other: it can be pointed at Isaiah House in a few minutes, and a gift from one costs you nothing further this year.
Give as a company, a school or a congregation
Corporate giving covers sponsorship, matched giving and a team that wants a morning of work rather than a check. Community group giving is the same thing for schools, congregations and neighborhood groups — a drive, a collection, or a day at the pantry.
Professionals give differently: pro bono legal, accounting, design and trades work is worth more to us than its invoice value, because it is work we would otherwise have to buy.
Give an occasion
A birthday, a wedding, a memorial, a marathon. Special day fundraising turns something that was going to happen anyway into a month of meals.
Give your time
The pantry, the garden and the drives run on volunteers. Groups and individuals both have a way in.
Sponsorship levels
Corporate sponsorship runs in tiers, and each one is attached to something specific — a program, an event, a season of the pantry. Khristina Fordham will walk you through them.
Contact Khristina Fordham at 973-678-5882 ext. 3012 or kfordham@isaiahhouse.org to discuss each sponsorship tier and explore how your corporation can play a pivotal role in uplifting our community.
With thanks to our sponsors
And with thanks to
The Shapiro Family Foundation Inc.
The Turley Family
Thank you to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey and MEND for their continued support and partnership.
Where it goes, and why it is needed now.
Isaiah House is 90% publicly funded, in a climate where that funding is shrinking and costs are rising faster than the support that covers them.
Private giving is not the margin here. It is the part that decides whether a family arriving tonight is given a room or given a number.
$150 keeps a mother and child safe for one night.
Isaiah House is 90% publicly funded, in a climate where that funding is shrinking. Private giving is what keeps the room ready.