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Individual Donation

Any financial donation which you give to HandsOn Jacksonville (HOJ) helps us to continue serving those everyday heroes who serve others. Thank you for helping us help them in keeping Florida’s First Coast a great place to live and raise families.

Through their donations, Individuals in the community help to insure that all the programs and services which HandsOn Jacksonville offers the community are continued.   If you would like to express an interest in making a donation, click INDIVIDUAL DONATION.  If you would like to make a donation now using either a credit/debit card or an electronic check, click MAKE A DONATION.

Note: Registration number is SC-00751. 100% of each contribution is retained by our organization. Under Internal Revenue guidelines, this contribution to our program does not provide any direct goods or services to our donors and is therefore fully deductible. A copy of our official registration and financial information may be obtained from the Division of Consumer Services by calling toll-free 1-800-435-7352 within the State of Florida. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval, or recommendation by the State.

               Various HandsOn Projects which you can help support include: A Visit from

               Saint Nicholas, Celebration of Service, Points of Light Youth Leadership

               Institute, Neighbors to the Rescue.  Click Support HOJ by Serving the Web,

               Shop the YellowBrickMall.com, Helping HandsOn is Simple, and

               HandsOn Jacksonville Wish List to view additional ways in which you can help.

              

A Visit from Saint Nicholas

This annual December event rallies the community around the issue of literacy in Jacksonville’s challenged elementary schools. It also provides 8,000 children a celebration complete with colorful backpacks filled with toys and books, story reading and a visit from Saint Nicholas himself.

To help make this worthwhile event a reality we need the help of caring corporations and individual citizens. Opportunities range from entire school sponsorships to sponsoring one backpack for a child.  For your contribution of $25 for each sponsored child, HOJ will send a festive holiday card to each person on your list acknowledging your gift in their name, or in memory/honor of someone special.  Click Share the Joy!, download and fill-out the donor information requested and return to HOJ if you would like to respond by mail. To make a donation now using either a credit/debit card or an electronic check, click MAKE A DONATION. To become a sponsor click A VISIT FROM SAINT NICHOLAS SPONSORSHIP.  To find out more about this event, click A Visit from Saint Nicholas

Celebration of Service

Every year HOJ celebrates the good work of our community’s most outstanding volunteers with a black tie, gala event called Celebration of Service. This event, always held in April to celebrate National Volunteer Week and Jacksonville Volunteer Appreciation Month, is held at the Times Union Center for the Performing Arts Moran Theatre. Volunteer Awardees, their guests and volunteer supporters are treated to a VIP Reception that features our city’s finest cuisine, and then the awardees are highlighted in the awards ceremony presented in the theatre.


Sponsors for this event play an active role in recognizing these amazing volunteers. Click COS Sponsorship Opportunities to find out about the different sponsorship opportunities. Click CELEBRATION OF SERVICE SPONSORSHIP FORM to become a sponsor. To find out more about the event, click Celebration of Service.  To make a donation now using either a credit/debit card or an electronic check, click MAKE A DONATION.

 

Points of Light Youth Leadership Institute (PYLI)

In the past, sophomores, juniors and seniors from area public and private high schools, have spent their Fridays during the summer at HandsOn Jacksonville learning about leadership, friendship, and most importantly, the causes they are passionate about. By the end of the summer these PYLI graduates have explored the needs in our community and together, with their new-found friends, have engineered a volunteer project that makes a positive impact on one of the needs they’ve agreed to address. What a way to spend a summer!

The PYLI program only charged participants a nominal fee of $75 to cover meals. This represented only a small amount of the actual cost to effectively run the program. Currently, HOJ is unable to offer PYLI until someone volunteers to sponsor the program. If you are interested, click PYLI SPONSOR. To find out more about this program, click PYLI.

Support VJ While Searching the Web

What if HandsOn Jacksonville earned a penny every time you searched the Internet?  GoodSearch.com is a new search engine powered by Yahoo! which makes this possible.  Just go to www.goodsearch.com and enter HandsOn Jacksonville as the charity you want to support. If 500 of us search four times a day, we can raise about $7300 in a year without anyone spending a dime.  Be sure to spread the word!

Shop the YellowBrickMall.com

HandsOn Jacksonville has teamed up with the YellowBrickMall.com, an online shopping mall that donates a percentage of online sales back to VJ.  You can help by purchasing from any of the hundreds of national online merchants shown on the VJ page on the YellowBrickMall.com site: www.yellowbrickmall.com/volunteerjacksonville.php.  Take a look at the wide variety of stores available and while you are remembering birthdays and weddings, getting travel and events tickets, and doing your general shopping - you can be helping HandsOn Jacksonville at the same time.

Helping HandsOn is Simple

Add a WeGive.org Badge HandsOn Jacksonville is joining other nonprofits on www.WeGive.org.  Made possible by The Nonprofit Center, WeGive.org is a website that connects local nonprofits to our community.  People and groups who want to give to the HansdOn Jacksonville projects they see on WeGive.org can donate immediately and securely.

HandsOn Jacksonville will use WeGive.org donations to support the projects that are posted there – whether it is creating community gardens, leading a beach clean up, or providing craft supplies for projects that impact marginalized populations.  The project pages reflect HandsOn Jacksonville’s immediate and urgent needs.

Each project has a start and end date and is limited to $5,000. Donors can see the impact of their donations immediately on the website. They can track the progress of the project and decide to become more involved by using WeGive.org or by volunteering for HandsOn Jacksonville. Giving through WeGive.org is a simple way to start getting involved with HandsOn Jacksonville and the programs we provide that make our community better.

WeGive.org donations are fast, convenient and 100 percent tax deductible. When you make a donation through the website, you will receive a receipt from Paypal and a confirmation email from WeGive.org. Be sure to save and/or print the receipt and/or confirmation e-mail you receive for your tax records.

To view HandsOn Jacksonville project pages click on this link

http://wegive.org/look/projectsearch.asp?sql=n&org=94.

 

Gifts-in-Kind: Neighbors to the Rescue (NTR) Virtual Warehouse

Clothes, cars, computers, toys - chances are, each of us has items ready to replace, yet often these same items would be welcomed as 'brand new' to one who needs them. We will help you find the person who can use what you no longer need if you are willing to list your donated goods on our NTR site which we call our Virtual Warehouse and hold on to those items until the right person is found.

Please submit the following information about any items which you would like to donate.  These items will be made available to our neighbors in need through the Virtual Warehouse. You will be contacted when a match is made.


Gifts-in-Kind Donation Form

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• Contact Name:
• E-mail Address:
• Phone Number:
• Company Name:
• Address 1:
• Address 2:
• City:
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• Item(s) to Donate:
• Pick Up Zip Code:
 

 

HandsOn Jacksonville Wish List

Click HandsOn Jacksonville Wish List to view additional ways in which you can help.  If you would like to donate any of these items, please contact us by either calling our office at 332-6767 or by submitting the completed form below.


Wishlist Donation Form

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• Contact Name:
• E-mail Address:
• Phone Number:
• Company Name:
• Address 1:
• Address 2:
• City:
• Zip:
• Item(s) to Donate from Wishlist above
• Pick Up Zip Code: