Ways To Give

When you donate to SHARE!, you are helping provide essential services for our programs.

Thank you for supporting SHARE!, created in 1993 to serve people through self-help support groups and communities that provide recovery and social support. As people develop skills to cope with substance use, trauma, mental health disorders and dysfunctional relationships, people learn to better their own lives, get jobs, reconnect with family and friends, and reintegrate into the community. Only with your support will we be able to:

Expand SHARE! Collaborative Housing and provide more permanent supportive housing to our most vulnerable populations – veterans, mental health consumers, people with diabetes, trauma issues and others with similar issues.
- Our goal – house 5,000 individuals in 5 years.

Scale our Self-Help Support Centers: We currently have SHARE! Culver City and SHARE! Downtown the friendly, accessible, and supportive centers where a large community of self-help groups meet each week to address all kinds of issues.
- Our goal – 2 centers in each City Council District in 5 years.

Continue to provide a home away from home for mental health consumers for up to two weeks at the SHARE! Recovery Retreat. The two week stay is filled with intensive recovery activities, including self-help support groups, independent living skills, conflict resolution and paths to achieving goals.
- Our goal – open 15 more respites throughout Los Angeles County in 5 years.

Hire dedicated staff for our Volunteer-to-Job program that gives anyone a meaningful job at SHARE!—no matter how limited their skills or debilitating their symptoms.
- Our goal – help 500 people find employment in 5 years.

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Donate Online

Clicking and donating online is a simple and secure way to contribute. All online cash contributions entitle you to a tax deduction for the amount of the gift. You may also choose to make a donation in memory or in honor of a loved one or a particular life event.

You also have the option to make gifts:

Weekly
Monthly
Yearly

Donate By Mail

To donate by mail, download our gift form here and send it along with your payment information. With it you can send the good, old-fashioned check made payable to Emotional Health Association:

SHARE!

6666 Green Valley Circle

Culver City, California 90230

Emotional Health Association dba SHARE! the Self-Help And Recovery Exchange Tax ID Number: 95-6092809 is a 501(c)(3) corporation and therefore contributions are deductible for Federal Income Tax Purposes in accordance with applicable law. Financial and other information about our purpose, programs, activities, financial and other information about may be obtained by contacting SHARE! at www.shareselfhelp.org. Registration in a State does not imply endorsement, approval, or recommendation of Emotional Health Association by the State.

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Consider donating to SHARE! on your natal or recovery birthday. Also consider setting up a Facebook Fundraiser to honor your birthday and raise much needed funds for SHARE!.

A birthday or recovery celebration is a special occasion. SHARE! knows that you want this day to be meaningful and memorable and there's no better way to bring meaning to such an impactful day by creating a Fundraiser on Facebook or directly through SHARE!.

Facebook Fundraisers

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A gift of appreciated securities held for more than one year may provide significant benefits to you as a contributor, such as:

Entitling you to a charitable income tax deduction for the fair market value of the gifted securities as of the date of gift.
Eliminating capital gains tax that would ordinarily become due if one sold the appreciated securities on the open market and donated the proceeds from the sale to charity.
Providing a way to help you to achieve your long-term financial objective of reducing your income and estate taxes.
If you have securities that have declined in value over the years and are interested in donating them to charity, you may find it more advantageous to sell the securities first and contribute the proceeds to charity as opposed to donating the securities outright. This strategy should allow you to claim a deduction for both the loss from the sale of the securities as well as the charitable gift.
If you are considering donating stock that is subject to a cash merger or tender offer, it's important for you to note that you will be subject to tax on the capital gain even though the shares were transferred to us before the tender offer became effective.

You should always consult with your tax advisor on the tax deductibility of your gift of securities.

Way to Give Securities

Please email lara@shareselfhlep.org for further details and next steps.

If you are 70½ and own a Traditional IRA, make a tax-free gift today.

Use Your Traditional IRA To Make Your Charitable Gifts

Congress made changes to the tax law that allows individuals age 70½+ to make charitable gifts directly from a traditional IRA account to charity without incurring federal income tax on the withdrawal. Many people have not heard about this option for making charitable gifts because it would expire every two years and needs to be renewed by Congress.

To qualify:

You must be age 70½ or older at the time of gift.
Transfers must be made directly from a traditional IRA account by your IRA administrator to SHARE!. Funds that are withdrawn by you and then contributed do NOT qualify. Gifts from 401k, 403b, SEP and other plans do not qualify.
Gifts must be outright. Distributions to donor-advised funds or life-income arrangements such as charitable remainder trusts and charitable gift annuities are not allowed.
Qualified charitable distributions may total up to $100,000 and are not included in your gross income for federal income tax purposes on your IRS Form 1040 (no charitable deduction is available, however).
Gifts count towards your minimum required distribution for the year from your IRA.

As you plan your minimum required distributions for this year, if you do not need the money the government is requiring you to take, consider using it for a charitable gift using the IRA Charitable Rollover.

Be sure to seek the advice of your financial or legal advisor.

Sample letter here.

For more information, please contact Melanie Elliott at melanie@m3development.net.

Bequests and charitable trusts are popular vehicles through which charitable support to SHARE! can be provided. They can also provide significant financial benefits for the donor and their loved ones.

Bequests

Outright bequests, as well as certain bequests in trust, are not subject to estate taxes.
Actual cost is less than face value of gift because of tax benefits to estate.
Bequest can take any of following forms:
- Bequest of a dollar amount of particular securities or other property.
- Residual bequest of all or portion of estate after payment of specific amounts to other beneficiaries.
- Contingent bequest to take effect if other beneficiaries die before the donor.
- A bequest can often be arranged simply with the addition of a codicil amending an existing will.

*Sample bequest language*

"I give, devise, and bequeath $_____ to Emotional Health Association dba SHARE! the Self-Help And Recovery Exchange Tax ID Number: 95-6092809. SHARE! may be contacted at 6666 Green Valley Circle, Culver City, California 90230."

"I give and bequeath to the Emotional Health Association dba SHARE! the Self-Help And Recovery Exchange Tax ID Number: 95-6092809 all [or state the fraction or percentage] of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, both real and personal the sum of $_______, or ________ face value bonds, or ________% of my estate." SHARE! may be contacted at 6666 Green Valley Circle, Culver City, California 90230."

*These are merely suggestions as to content and should be written or adapted by legal counsel to fit the contributor's individual situation.

Retirement Plan Gifts

You may choose to name SHARE! as a beneficiary, or a contingent beneficiary, of:

401K
IRA
Pension Fund
Profit Sharing Plan

Naming SHARE! as a partial or full beneficiary of a retirement plan may result in income and estate tax savings.

Life Insurance

Make SHARE! the sole owner and beneficiary of paid-up policy.
Receive income tax deduction for the cash surrender value of policy.
If policy not fully paid, continue to pay premiums.
Receive tax deduction for annual premium amounts.

Life Income Trusts

Trust assets are funds or property contributed by donor (usually $100,000 or more).
Flexibility in type of property that can be donated.
Real estate and municipal bonds may be used.
Provides a fixed amount of income. (Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust) or a variable level of income. (Charitable Remainder Unitrust) If the donor would like to make a significant gift to SHARE! but are concerned about giving up a portion of income, the Charitable Remainder Trust might be particularly advantageous.
The principal of the gift is released to SHARE! for spending purposes upon the death of the beneficiary (the individual receiving the income).

Charitable Lead Trust

Donor provides assets to the Charitable Lead Trust for a limited period of time.
Funds are invested to provide income to SHARE!.
Assets returned to donor or to designee at end of the period of time.
Can fulfill a pledge while reducing estate and gift taxes that might otherwise be due on assets given outright to heirs.

Donating real estate - a residence, commercial property, vacation home, undeveloped land or farm is another way to give. There are benefits to giving a gift of real estate - you qualify for a federal income tax charitable deduction, and you may minimize or eliminate capital gains tax. You also no longer have to deal with the property’s insurance, property taxes or maintenance. We have a nonprofit partner we work with that makes this process easy and hassle free.

If you are interested in donating to SHARE! a gift of real estate, please contact Melanie Elliott at melanie@m3development.net.

For law firms. By designating your cy pres award to SHARE!, you can support all of SHARE!’s programs.

Cy Pres is also known as residual funds. It is a French term that means “as near as possible.” Cy pres awards are designated when there are residual funds that remain in probate cases, class action lawsuits, and other matters after the case or lawsuit is over. Cy pres awards solve the problem of what to do with residual funds that cannot be distributed to the class members or beneficiaries. The residual funds are put to the next best use, or cy pres, by the court by making a nonprofit charitable organization the beneficiary of the awards. California Code of Civil Procedure Section 384 governs this area of law.

If you are interested in having your law firm designate your cy pres award to SHARE!, please contact Melanie Elliott at melanie@m3development.net.

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