Giving
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How To Donate

Good Friend depends on the financial and volunteer support of good friends like you -- business owners and individuals -- who want to help local kids succeed in today's world. The City of Danbury, the United Way, and other local sources provide assistance totaling 1/3 of our budget, for which we are most grateful.

You can make an online donation at the Friends of Green Chimneys web site by selecting "Good Friend CT" from the list of programs where your donation can be directed.  

You can help Good Friend recruit volunteers. Print this flyer and post it at work, the gym, your place of worship, or any other public place to help raise awareness about Good Friend.  
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Wish List

  • Donate a 12-15 passenger van for transporting youth to and from activities
  • Donate the cost of insurance & maintenance on a van for one year
  • Engage Good Friend youth in community service projects (river clean-up, Habitat)
  • Sponsorship of Tortoise & Hare 5k and/or 1k Kid's Run held annually in May
  • Art and graphic design services to help develop a poster and advertisements
  • Marketing personnel to help develop volunteer recruitment and PR plan
  • Participation in Adopt-A-Family holiday gift drive (Oct.-Dec.)
  • Extend Adopt-A-Family involvement to include birthdays and back-to-school needs
  • Sponsor summer camp for a child (~$300 per child per week)
  • Opportunities to present to employees/membership about Good Friend
  • Underwrite printing/production costs of identity piece that volunteers could display on their desk/person to advertise the need for volunteers (e.g. lapel pins, card-stock placard, static window stickers, license plate frames)
  • Printing costs for brochures and/or manuals
  • Sponsor/plan annual volunteer appreciation dinner mid June(~$2500)
  • Sponsor a billboard for volunteer recruitment (~$1500/mo.)
  • Fund the cost of a match for one child for a year at $1200
  • Fund 12 activities per year for one child $120
  • Write a letter of introduction to your circle of influence and affiliation encouraging them to participate in Good Friend's mission to serve children through donations, volunteer recruitment, or the way they feel they can best support our work
  • Computers for youth who cannot afford them (use for homework)
  • Postage meter and scale
  • Cleaning service for the Good Friend office (2-4x year deep cleaning)
  • T-shirts w/logo for program participants (150/yr. @ $5 ea.)
  • Printing and mailing of 4-6x year newsletter (300)
  • Provide scholarships to summer camp @ $200 per child
  • A sponsorship for "mentor and me" handbooks for new matches (I think they are like $8 dollars a book)
  • A good photo shop program
  • A floor length standard table cloth with our name/logo on it for recruitment opportunities
  • Sponsor, plan & chaperone an activity for youth in Good Friend

Let us know what you can do!

Where The Money Goes...
Please know that the program will put your gift of cash, items or services to good use. Call or e-mail Good Friend for more information or to let us know how you would like to help. For example, cash and services can help us with:

  • t-shirts with Good Friend logo for program participants, 200/year @ $5 each
  • printing and mailing of Good Friend newsletter, 4/year @ $500 each
  • scholarships to summer camp, $250/child
  • sponsorship of a group activity for unmatched youth, $50 to $350/activity
  • co-sponsorship of Tortoise & Hare 5k and/or 1k Kid's Run held annually in March or April, $500 to $5000/year
  • sponsorship of annual volunteer appreciation dinner, $2500
  • billboard for volunteer recruitment, $1500/month
  • match for one child for one month, $100
  • match for one child for one year, $1200
  • high volume color inkjet or laser printer, $4000
  • laptop computer, $2000
  • art and graphic design services for posters and advertisements
  • marketing advice for volunteer recruitment and PR plan
  • production of a volunteer recruitment video
  • participation in our Adopt-A-Family holiday gift drive, October thru December
  • printing of brochures and manuals
  • 12 - 15 passenger van for transporting youth to and from activities
  • insurance & maintenance costs for a van for one year
  • postage meter and scale
  • presentations to employees/colleagues/business associates and friends to promote volunteer opportunities
  • production of identity pieces for volunteers to display (lapel pin, card-stock placard, static window sticker, license plate frame)
  • establish an award within a school to recognize the attributes of friendship
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Monetary contributions are entirely tax-deductible. You can make an online donation at the Friends of Green Chimneys web site by selecting "Good Friend CT" from the list of programs where your donation can be directed. Or if you prefer to mail a check, make it payable to Friends of Green Chimneys, with "Donation to Good Friend" in the memo line, and send it to:

Good Friend, 185 Main Street, Danbury, Connecticut 06810

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185 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810 * (203) 790-0032

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