Ways to Donate

Kinship of the Park Rapids Area is a not-for-profit youth mentoring program. The program budget, including all of the money used for activities, is supported by donations, grants and fundraisers.

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Click Donate on the green heart under the photo to the left and you can make a contribution online through giveMN.org. If you prefer, you may mail a check or money order to Kinship, PO Box 282, Park Rapids, MN 56470 or deliver it to the Kinship Office at 301 Huntsinger Avenue, Room 422, Park Rapids.

The Kinship Endowment Fund

The purpose of the Kinship Endowment Fund is to provide financial support for the program, projects and activities associated with the mission of the mentoring program serving the Park Rapids Area. In an endowment, all gifts are permanently retained as principle with only a portion of the earnings each year used to support Kinship. This contributes to Kinship’s annual operating revenue.

The Kinship Endowment Fund is administered as part of the Northwest Minnesota Foundation (NMF), a regional community foundation. Kinship and NMF are 501©3 charitable non-profit organizations and all gifts to the Kinship Endowment Fund are deductible to the extent allowed by law.

By making a significant gift to the Kinship Endowment Fund, you will:

• Help children stay in school, out of trouble and off drugs.
• Provide a permanent revenue stream to fund ongoing recruitment, screening and support of mentors to befriend children in need.
• Provide long-term stability for local mentoring services which positively impact our community – one child and one family at a time.
• Reduce needs for social services – both near-term costs of counseling and long-term costs of public assistance.
• Help a great bunch of children who face a variety of challenges develop the confidence and skills to face those challenges with greater strength and maturity as young adults.
  

Consider the following as ways to offer significant support for Kinship operations and/or the Kinship

Endowment Fund:

Memorial and Tribute gifts to Kinship of the Park Rapids Area and/or the Kinship Endowment Fund are a fine way to honor someone, especially one who has demonstrated concern for children. Kinship staff will send acknowledgement letters to persons honored or family members of those memorialized.

Make Kinship of the Park Rapids Area or the Kinship a beneficiary of a retirement plan, such as an IRA, 401(k), 403(b) or SEP. Just fill out a Change of Beneficiary Form from your plan provider.

Make Kinship of the Park Rapids Area the beneficiary of a checking or savings account upon your death. Ask your local bank for a Payment On Death Form.

Make Kinship of the Park Rapids Area or the Kinship Endowment Fund the beneficiary of a life insurance policy no longer needed for your family. Again, just fill out a Change of Beneficiary Form. If you don’t need your policy anymore, just transfer ownership of the policy to Kinship now, and you can qualify for an income tax deduction.

Give gifts of appreciated stock to Kinship of the Park Rapids Area, avoid capital gains tax and enjoy a charitable tax deduction at the current market value.

Include Kinship of the Park Rapids Area or the Kinship Endowment Fund as a beneficiary in your will or estate plans.