But to maintain this array of services available to all, and continue to meet a worldwide demand via the Internet, a nonprofit charity such as ours needs ongoing support in many forms.

Please choose from among the many ways listed below that you can contribute to National Grief Support Services Inc. and our mission to lessen the impact grief and loss. We welcome our visitors to utilize our offerings as long as they feel the need. We sincerely hope you are on a journey to a better situation. While you’re here, if you would be so kind, pause long enough to see how you can leave a few drops of healing spirit behind for others, in the form of a contribution. You can consult with your accountant or financial advisor about these categories of giving for specific recommendations to structure a gift that best fits your financial and family situation and provides the best tax outcome for you.

Contact us about volunteer opportunities with our organization or one of our allies against grief. Everyone has skills or attributes that can be of use somewhere in this ongoing effort. Your interest and spirit are the first things to call on.

Having a will is one great idea, and remembering us
In it is another.

Assistance with drafting your will may come from your attorney or a self-service approach such as BuildAWill.com.

Of course, you can continue to earn income or build equity early or late in life while sharing with us and still planning for your future and that of your heirs.

You can deed your home or property to National Grief Support Services and continue to live in and control use of the property, make improvements and even lease it to others as long as you and your spouse live. The tax savings for your contribution, however, begin immediately.

Proceeds from pensions or 401(k) retirement plans that you may not find essential may become sources for charitable donations as well. Whether you build this into your plans for redeeming these benefits or as part of your will, it could present tax advantages for either you or your heirs.

You can make National Grief Support Services a beneficiary of a life insurance policy. Or to reduce the taxability of your estate, provide a major gift and replace the lost proceeds to your heirs with a new life insurance policy payable to a trust, which could allow your heirs to receive the proceeds with advantageous tax treatment.

This allows you to provide for a worthy charity like National Grief Support Services as well as your heirs through the same mechanism. You establish the trust, to become effective either before or at the time of death. Proceeds derived from the trust go to the charity for a specified number of years, after which the assets are distributed to those you designate.

National Grief Support Services is a natural when you consider ways that you or others may pay tribute to someone who has left a mark on the lives of others. You can initiate a gift in tribute now on our website or provide the link to others to suggest they donate at the time of a death notice or funeral. As an alternative, memorial contributions may be mailed to us at:

Just specify the person in whose name they are given. Either way, we will generate a thank-you note or e-mail, depending on whether we receive the gift electronically or by postal mail. And we will provide a list of gift-givers in that person’s name to you.Click for Feel a Form

A number of programs allowing employees to make charitable contributions that are matched by employer donations, making your tax-deductible gift to National Grief Support Services even more powerful. If your employer offers a matching gifts plan, you may submit to us completed forms used to direct contributions to National Grief Support Services, or contact us for information required to complete forms for your employer.

A generous portion of your purchase from an impressive array of leading retailers will directly benefit the grief support services we offer. Orbitz, Eddie Bauer, Dell Computers, Office Max, and on and on. Not only is there no extra markup, but there are often special deals for customers shopping to share at BuyForCharity.com. You can be one such shopper and a diligent donor to National Grief Support Services, all in the same fulfilling moment.

Make National Grief Support Services your selection when you donate through gift-giving alliances including.We are proud to be among charitable organizations that these alliances have scrutinized and found to be financially and organizationally worthy of your support.

It’s a sweet deal for you, and a donation of a portion of each month’s bill goes to this charity and the relief of grief.

Our corporate donors are valuable supporters, and we want you to know about them. Look who’s giving from the corporate community.

Another way for enterprises to give back, the Compassion Cooperative involves businesses and organizations large and small.Click for more information to find out how helping our charity helps your bottom line, as well.