There are many ways you can leave a legacy of hope to our community and neighbors. Consider these ways to make a leading and lasting impact!

• Sustaining Saints
• Naming Opportunities
• Planned Giving Opportunities

Sustaining Saints

Sustaining Saints was created to honor Family and Community Services’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

Family and Community Services is grateful to recognize our Sustaining Saints:

Roger and Mary Jo Brandt
John and Diane Caselli
Bill and Musette Castle
Joe and Juliet Carello
Laurie and Tony Sagona
Miguel and Josephine Velazquez
Deb and Ed Stendardi
Alasdair and Shannon MacKinnon
Chip and Sally Partner

Please contact Tracy Kroft at (585) 339-9800 x 305 or email: tracy.kroft@dor.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 Family and Community Services and to provide hope to the people we serve. All funds raised through naming opportunities support our annual fund campaign, allowing CCFCS to direct the gift to the area with the greatest need.

Family and Community Services 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 Tracy Kroft at (585) 339-9800 x 305 or email: tracy.kroft@dor.org.

Planned Giving Opportunities

By including Family and Community Services 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 Family and Community Services 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 Family and Community Services 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 CCFCS, 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, CCFCS 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 Family and Community Services 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 Family and Community Services, 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 CCFCS who are recognized for their generosity and foresight. Please let us know if you have provided for CCFCS 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 Family and Community Services, please contact: contact Tracy Kroft at (585) 339-9800 x 305 or email: tracy.kroft@dor.org.

Share the Joy

Hundreds of generous donors like you join together each year to support over 300 families representing over 1,400 individuals this Season, plus another 500+ families and individuals through your Holiday Meal and Single Gifts of Joy gifts for our clients. This wonderful program opens around November 1 each year. Thank you!

See some of the happy gift-delivery smiling faces here.

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 Family and Community Services. 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 CCFCS 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. Family and Community Services 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 Family and Community Services: 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 Family and Community Services? 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 Ally Ewing at (585) 339-9800 x258 or email: aewing@cfcrochester.org to discuss your opportunity and learn more about our guidelines and how we can support you.