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Giving Opportunities

Through generous friends like you, we are increasingly closer to achieving our goal of eliminating Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research and enhancing care and support for individuals, their families and caregivers. You really do make a difference!  

When making a donation on-line or by phone, you will be asked to provide the following information:

• Your name and contact information

• Credit card number and expiration date

• If you are making a gift in someone's honor, you will also need the name and address of the individual to receive a memorial or tribute card.

Below is listed a variety of formats you can choose from when making a donation.  Thank you for supporting the Alzheimer’s Association.

Online Donations

You can make an online donation through a secure server to the Hudson Valley/Rockland/Westchester, NY Chapter.

When you make a donation, you will be asked if you wish to make a gift in your own name, or in someone's honor. You can make a gift in someone's honor in one of the following ways:

1. A memorial gift may be given in honor of an individual who has passed away. Upon receipt of your gift, we will send a memorial card to the family of the deceased.  The card does not specify the amount of the gift.

2. A tribute gift is an opportunity to acknowledge a special occasion for a friend, family member, or colleague. We will mark the occasion by sending a card to the person you designate that announces the gift but not the amount.

If you would like to make an online donation to the Hudson Valley/Rockland/Westchester, NY Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association click here.  

Telephone or Mail-In Donations

Call the Hudson Valley Rockland/Westchester, NY Chapter office at 1-800-872-0994 and make a donation with a MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover.

Or, you can send a check to:
Alzheimer's Association
2 Jefferson Plaza, Suite 103
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-4027

Car Donation Program

A car donation is one of the simplest ways to make a gift to the Alzheimer's Association.  Cars, trucks, motorcycles, and recreational vehicles are gladly accepted throughout the United States.  Even if your vehicle will not start, we may accept it.  For additional information, please call our chapter at 1-800-872-0994.

Event Sponsorship

Receive positive recognition and high visibility for your business or community organization by sponsoring one of our special events.  Choose to sponsor one or more of the following events: Memory Walks held in seven counties throughout the Hudson Valley, a Wine and Roses gala event, or the annual Golf Tournament.  Please visit our Special Events page, Memory Walk page, or call 1-800-872-0994 for more information. Corporate Partnerships are also available.  For more information please call 1-800-872-0994.

Employee Giving Programs

Employee giving programs make it easy for individuals to contribute to the work of the Alzheimer's Association by designating a specific amount to be deducted from their paychecks.  If you have an existing employee giving program, please consider the Alzheimer's Association as your designated charity.  In addition, many companies have matching gift programs that maximize employee gifts.

Life income gifts

The Alzheimer’s Association offers two types of life income arrangements: (1) the charitable gift annuity and (2) the charitable remainder trust.

• Charitable gift annuity — The charitable gift annuity pays a donor a rate of return for one or two lives. Rates, established by the American Council of Gift Annuities, are reviewed annually.  For example, a husband and wife, ages 74 and 72, could get an annual rate of 6.1 percent for their lifetimes, with quarterly payments. The rate is based on the age of the donor. The older the donor, the higher the payment rate, up to a current high of 11.3 percent per year. 

• Charitable remainder trust — Under a charitable remainder trust, you make a gift to the Association in a trust, reserving the income to yourself, another person, or yourself and another person, either for life or a set numbers of years. At the end of the trust, the remaining assets are distributed to the Association. Charitable remainder trusts are complex legal instruments. Consequently, the use of an attorney and professional trustee, such as a bank trust department, is usually advisable.

For more information on life income gifts, go to www.alzgift.org.

Bequests

Bequests are gifts made through a will or living trusts.  They are especially popular for people who want to make a gift of significant size but who cannot give up income or capital during their lifetime. 

For more information on bequests, go to www.alzgift.org

Retirement Account Assets and IRA's

Designate the Hudson Valley/Rockland/Westchester, NY chapter of the Alzheimer's Association as the contingent beneficiary on your policy.

For more information on retirement account assets and IRS's gifts, go to www.alzgift.org

Life Insurance

Donate an existing policy or include us as a beneficiary of your existing policy.

For more information on life insurance gifts, go to www.alzgift.org

For further information about donating or

special  naming opportunities,
call Alison DaMore at 1-800-872-0994
or email Alison.DaMore@alz.org.