Your gift to Families First can be directed to the following places:

• The Annual Fund, helping us meet annual operating expenses
• The Endowment Fund, helping ensure that Families First will be able to continue to support Essex County families in the future

Your tax-deductible contribution can be in the form of a check, or a gift of stocks or bonds. Although we do not currently have a planned giving program, we anticipate that we will in the future.

Pledges may be set up for ease in giving with payment installments scheduled as most convenient for the donor.

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What Your Dollar Can Buy

$50.00 can help provide juice and healthy snacks for our weekly preschool playgroup for two months

$100.00 can help provide dinner for a month for five families attending a weekly family support group

$250.00 can help send one child to summer camp for a week

$500.00 can help provide 200 gallons of fuel oil to families who have exhausted all other resources for heat

$1000.00 can help provide up to twenty nights of respite for parents who are struggling to maintain their child at home

 Our most recent IRS Form 990 can be found by using the following link:

  http://www.guidestar.org/index.jsp