Why Give to CASA?
By making a contribution to CASA, you are helping to provide a voice for a child who may feel as though they do not have one. With your help, we can continue to strengthen families and build better futures for children and youth in our community.
Your Impact
Did you know that youth who age out of foster care when they turn 18 are more likely to face risk factors such as becoming incarcerated, experiencing homelessness, and being unemployed? Those factors add up to future direct costs to the community of $300,000 to support each of these youth.
But having a stable adult like a CASA Volunteer in the life of a child in foster care can dramatically reduce those future risk factors.
Research has shown that children with a CASA Volunteer are more likely to find a safe, permanent home, more likely to succeed in school, and half as likely to re-enter the foster care system.
As a non-profit organization, we rely on the support of our community and donors like you to help provide court-appointed volunteer advocacy for children who have experienced abuse and neglect.
You can Change a Child’s StoryTM with a contribution to CASA.
Ways to Give
Make a One-Time Donation
Become a Recurring Donor
Legacy Giving
Workplace Giving
Grant & Foundation Giving
Make a One-Time Donation
Your tax-deductible gift will help to provide children and youth from the child welfare system with the life-changing advocacy of a CASA Volunteer. Every dollar you donate to CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties qualifies for the Colorado Child Care Contribution Tax Credit, which decreases the after-tax cost of your donation by 50%. That means if you donate $100, you may claim an income tax credit of $50.
If you prefer to make a donation by check, please mail it to:
CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties
11860 Pecos St., Suite 2700
Westminster, CO 80234
Please note that by making a donation to CASA, you are automatically added to our email list, but can update your email preferences or unsubscribe at any time.
To learn more about these giving options, contact Lisa Gallegos, Development Manager, at lisa@casa17th.com.
Become a Recurring Donor
Recurring donors are critical to the growth of our organization and play a direct role in helping us advance the CASA mission. Your recurring monthly gift provides a consistent revenue stream and sustains our CASA Program throughout the year so we can continue to serve vulnerable and at-risk children in our community.
It is also a convenient way for donors to spread their gift across the year. Your recurring gift of just $100 a month will enable CASA to recruit, train, and supervise one CASA Volunteer, who will provide advocacy for at least one child over the course of a year.
Please note that by making a donation to CASA, you are automatically added to our email list, but can update your email preferences or unsubscribe at any time.
To learn more about these giving options, contact Lisa Gallegos, Development Manager, at lisa@casa17th.com.
Legacy Giving
A legacy gift with CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties enables you to dedicate financial resources in a way that suits your lifestyle, goals, and your family’s financial situation.
- Retirement Plans: Naming CASA as a beneficiary of your IRA, 401k, or 403b is a simple way to benefit the community while avoiding significant, often unanticipated taxes.
- Outright Bequests: You can make a bequest by including specific language in your will or living trust naming CASA as the recipient of a testamentary gift.
- Charitable Gift Annuity: You can make a gift to benefit the community while receiving fixed payments for the life of one or two beneficiaries, regardless of the economic climate.
- Charitable Trust: Giving through a trust provides financial benefits to you or a loved one, as well as to the community.
- Life Insurance: Including CASA as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy, or assigning policy ownership to CASA, can leverage small premium payments into significant community benefit.
To learn more about these giving options, contact Lisa Gallegos, Development Manager, at lisa@casa17th.com.
Workplace Giving
Participate in your company’s matching gift program. Many companies offer matching gifts to encourage employees to contribute to charitable organizations. Additionally, you can find us in several Workplace Giving Campaigns, including, but not limited to:
- Community Shares
- Benevity
- Mile High United Way
- Combined Federal Campaign
To learn more about these giving options, contact Lisa Gallegos, Development Manager, at lisa@casa17th.com.
Grant & Foundation Giving
Financial support through corporations, foundations, and government agencies are an important part of the philanthropic structure at CASA of Adams & Broomfield Counties.
If you are interested in supporting CASA through grants or foundation giving, contact Barbara Lyall, Grants Manager at barbara@casa17th.com.
Featured Donor
Mark and Joanne have been CASA supporters for nearly 10 nears. Mark shared about why they continue to support CASA; “Dozens of agencies ask us for donations, but with CASA, we can watch our giving put to use right in front of us as we see the program grow. We want to see every child in the system benefit from a CASA – but we have a long way to go. That’s why we volunteer for Indulge and other events, why we urge others to give, and why we doubled our monthly contribution this year.”
If you have any questions, or would like to discuss other ways to give back to CASA, please contact CASA Development Manager Lisa Gallegos at lisa@casa17th.com or 720-523-2860.