How You Can Help

Become a Sustaining Partner Today!

Our monthly donors demonstrate a consistent commitment to our community by supporting the people served by Catholic Family Center. In 2018 alone, more than 30,000 people were served by our programs. You can be a part of a consistent funding stream for our essential programs, and have an immediate impact on your community. You can start, change or stop your gift at any time.

Why set up a monthly recurring gift?

1. It’s super easy – set it up once and your gifts are automatically processed each month
2. Monthly gifts provide a steady stream of funding that our programs and clients can depend on!
3. Better to accelerate your mission and bring it to fruition! Even the smallest gifts can add up to make a big difference each month:

   $5/month

   If 5 people set up a gift of just $5/month, your total giving by the end of the year can buy a year’s supply of diapers for a baby in our shelter!

   $20/month

   If 5 people set up a gift of $20/month, you can heat one of our shelters for a month in the cold Rochester winter!

   $50/month

   If 5 people set up a gift of $50/month, you can support a user in our RESTART clinic for up to 5 months of treatment!

   Imagine what you can make happen with $100 or more each month!

You have the power to foster great change for Rochester’s most vulnerable people.

Please contact Molly Hicks at (585) 262-7172 for questions about our monthly giving program or sign up for monthly giving today.

Sustaining Saints

Sustaining Saints of CFC was created as a way to honor Catholic Family Center’s life-saving work in the Rochester area as we embark on our next 100 years of service to our community. Sustaining Saints will honor our most loyal donors and provide a steady stream of support to our life-saving programs. Sustaining Saints commit to a three year gift of $1,000 or more per year.

Sustaining Saints pledge payments can be made monthly or annually. There are a variety of membership levels and benefits.

• Sustaining Saints program description
• Sustaining Saints pledge form

Catholic Family Center is especially grateful to our founding members of Sustaining Saints:

Father Michael Bausch
Marlene and Eric Bessette
Roger and Mary Jo Brandt
Don and Stephanie Campanelli
Joe and Juliet Carello
William and Musette Castle
Kathy and Kenny Grant
Paul and Patricia Groschadl
Louis and Donna Howard
Alasdair and Shannon MacKinnon
Ann and Patrick McCormick
Marty and Maureen Palumbos
Jess and Tom Regan
Brigid and Paul Ryan
Laurie and Tony Sagona
Stephanie and Paul Schaeffer
Debbie and Ed Stendardi
Virginia Tyler Smith and Brad Smith
Miguel and Josephine Velazquez

Please contact Jim Fien at (585) 546-7220 x7332 or email: jim.fien@cfcrochester.org for more information or to become a Sustaining Saint.

Naming Opportunities

Naming opportunities are a permanent way to show your support of the mission of Catholic Family Center and to provide hope to the people we serve. All funds raised through naming opportunities support our annual fund campaign, allowing CFC to direct the gift to the area with the greatest need.

Catholic Family Center provides services to tens of thousands of our neighbors, relatives and friends in more than a dozen locations throughout our community. Opportunities to name rooms or areas are currently available at the following locations:

• 87 North Clinton Avenue, Rochester – home of our mental health and refugee services
• Barrington House, Rochester – a community residence for women and children
• Restart Substance Use Outpatient Clinic
• Hannick Hall, Newark – a community residence for women and children
• Jones House, Rochester – a community residence for men
• Liberty Manor, Rochester – a residence for women and children
• Sanctuary House, Rochester – a residence for women and children

For a complete list of naming opportunities at each of our locations or to arrange for a personal tour, please contact Jim Fien at (585) 546-7220 x7332 or email: jim.fien@cfcrochester.org

By including Catholic Family Center in your estate plans, regardless of your income level or age, you can make a difference in our community for generations to come.

What are the most common types of planned gifts?

• Bequests: One of the easiest ways to remember Catholic Family Center in your will is through a bequest. You may choose a portion of your estate, as a percentage or dollar amount, or gift the balance from your estate after other bequests have been made
• Life Insurance: You can name Catholic Family Center 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 CFC, free of federal estate tax. To make this gift, simply contact your insurance carrier and request a beneficiary form.
• Retirement Plan Assets: Typically, retirement plan balances are subject to both income and estate taxes. As a nonprofit organization, CFC will not pay income tax on the distribution nor will the gift be subject to estate tax. You may use your IRA, 401(k), 403(b) and other retirement plan to name Catholic Family Center as your survivor beneficiary, removing some highly taxed assets from your estate and allowing lesser-taxed assets to remain with your beneficiaries.

What are the benefits?

Along with helping to ensure the future work of Catholic Family Center, planned giving can offer many potential benefits including:

• Passing on your assets to loved ones with reduced estate taxes
• Reducing or eliminating income taxes including capital gains, generation skipping, gift, inheritance and transfer taxes
• Be a part of a special group of donors at CFC who are recognized for their generosity and foresight. Please let us know if you have provided for CFC through a planned gift and you will have the option to be included on our recognition wall and to be invited to upcoming events

Learn more about planned giving options by talking to your financial advisor. For more information about designating a gift to Catholic Family Center, please contact: Jim Fien at (585) 546-7220 x7332 or email: jim.fien@cfcrochester.org

Donate a Car

Have an old car, boat, motor home, motorcycle, etc. taking up space in your driveway? Donate it to CFC! Making a donation is EASY! It’s as easy as filling out an online donation form or picking up the phone. If you have any questions, just call toll-free (844) 380-GIVE or (844) 380-4483 seven days a week.

Amazon Smile

Your personal Amazon purchases can also help support Catholic Family Center. Shop at smile.amazon.com and select Catholic Family Center as your charitable organization. From that point forward, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to CFC with no additional cost to you. Bring your smile to our mission!

ROC the Day

Each year, the United Way of Rochester holds a one-day online fundraising event to benefit thousands of area non-profits. Catholic Family Center is proud to participate! ROC the Day is held in late November of each year on “Giving Tuesday”. When you ROC the Day, please consider a gift to Catholic Family Center: www.roctheday.org/catholicfamilycenter

Third Party Events

Would you like to host an event in your home or business and donate the proceeds or a percentage of the proceeds to Catholic Family Center? We have been the lucky recipient of funds from many great events including gift gathering parties, jewelry and apparel sales, blues concerts, and more. If you have an idea, please contact Molly Hicks at (585) 262-7172 or email: mhicks@cfcrochester.org to discuss your opportunity and learn more about our guidelines and how we can support you.