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Your Gifts Make A Critical Difference To Helping Hands

Your gift is an investment in the most extra-ordinary human-animal partnership and will immediately change a life or continue to have an impact throughout a lifetime. In order to provide people with Helping Hands monkeys and services at no charge we rely on the generous donations of people like you. Support for Helping Hands comes from individual donors, foundation grants, and corporate support.

Helping Hands is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our Federal Identification Number is #13-3146988.

Please contact Andrea Rothfelder in our Office of Development and Communications with any questions, or to receive a copy of Helping Hands' more recent annual reports, audited financial statements, and program information. She can be reached by e-mail at andrear@monkeyhelpers.org, or by telephone at (617) 787-4419 ext. 114.

Monkey at the window

To mail a check – make it out to: Helping Hands Monkey Helpers and mail to:

Helping Hand Monkey Helpers
541 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02134

Here are some examples of what your gift can achieve:

  • $25 Provides fruit, vegetables, and training treats for a monkey in training
  • $50 Provides toys, blankets, stuffed animals for a monkey in training
  • $250 Provides monkey chow for one monkey for one year
  • $500 Provides an equipment upgrade for a long-term monkey helper placement
  • $750 Funds customized adaptations of a recipient's wheelchair
  • $1,000 Provides specialized equipment for a monkey and a recipient (e.g., laser pointer, reward dispenser, task or adaptive equipment)
  • $9,000 Underwrites the basic training for one monkey
  • $15,000 Funds the critical placement week and follow-up support of a new monkey helper placement (both the monkey helper and the recipient person are trained together in the home environment with intensive support provided during the initial months of the placement)
  • $38,000 Sponsors a monkey up to the placement cycle with a disabled person

ONLINE CONTRIBUTIONS

Donating online is simple. You can ensure Helping Hands is able to continue training and placing monkeys by making a secure online donation with Give Direct. Your direct contribution is a wonderful way to honor a family member or pet, or to pay tribute to someone special. Your employer may be willing to match your gift which will double the power of your giving. It only takes a minute to change a life.

VEHICLE DONATIONS

Donate your car, boat, truck, RV, Jet Ski or snowmobile to Helping Hands Monkey Helpers for the Disabled and receive a tax deduction. This no cost, no hassle process begins when you contact our fundraising partner, Donation Line LLC at 877-227-7487. Make sure to ask for our extension, 1225, Or you can click here, Donation Line

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FOUNDATION SUPPORT

Charitable foundations and corporate giving are important sources of support for Helping Hands. If your foundation or corporation is interested in supporting our one-of-a-kind program, please contact Andrea Rothfelder in our office of Development and Communications at (617) 787-4419 X114, or andrear@monkeyhelpers.org to receive a detailed proposal.

COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN (CFC)

Helping Hands is proud and grateful to participate in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). The Combined Federal Campaign promotes Federal employees' on-the-job philanthropy. In the fall of 2005, Helping Hands joined a new federation: The Human Care Charities of America. Please look for us there, and use our CFC donor number #11196.

UNITED WAY CAMPAIGNS

Although Helping Hands is not listed as a member of the United Way, employees can still donate to us through the United Way. When filling out your United Way donor card, simply write-in Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled in the donor-option line, or give our Federal Identification Number #13-3146988 on your pledge card.

SUPPORT OTHERS WHO SUPPORT US

About Monkeyhugs.org

Monkeyhugs.org was created by Sydney, a thirteen year old girl who believes that two hands can make a difference in the world. Unique plush toy monkeys have been designed by Sydney to be sold online and in retail stores across the country. 100% of the profits, after tax, from the sales of these monkeys are donated to the Monkeyhugs Foundation. This foundation provides grants to various organizations, which help to bring a better quality of life to those in need.

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