Why Do You Give?

Every one of us is making a difference in addressing problems and improving the lives of others.  And we want to know why you do it.  Let us know why you support the Women's Intercultural Center and we could feature you in our upcoming newsletter.  Email your story to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . THANK YOU!

The Women's Intercultural Center provides the tools necessary for women to become the drivers of their own success. By investing in the Center YOU invest in women and let them do the rest. The following is a list of ways YOU can impact our participants and operations:

BEQUESTS AND OTHER PLANNED GIVING

YOU can play a part in ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Women's Intercultural Center through gift planning today.  Whether you bequest to the Center is in the form of cash, securities, real estate or other property, the gift is deductible for federal estate tax purposes, with no limit on the amount of your charitable estate tax deduction.  A gift through your estate provides the following benefits:

• Opportunity to make a major gift while preserving assets during your lifetime;
• Reduction in federal estate taxes;
• Significant and much appreciated support for the Center in your name and/or area of specific interest in the Center. 
  

To learn about the various planned giving vehicles, please contact Mary Carter at 575-882-5556 or via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

ENDOWMENT FUND

Women's Intercultural Center Endowment Fund support serves as a permanent financial resource that provides perpetual income. Unlike grants or contributions, endowments are invested to protect the "purchasing power" of the gift providing steadily growing amounts of spendable earnings over time.  Donating to the Center's Endowment Fund is a way of ensuring that your support will last for generations. Endowed funds are unrestricted, which means they can be used wherever the need is greatest.  Endowed funds are particularly valuable to the Center to support new or existing programs or initiatives in any of our operations.

To make a donation, please make checks payable to The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico and designate your donation to the Women's Intercultural Center Endowment Fund. Mail checks to The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico, 301 S. Church St, Ste. H, Las Cruces, NM 88001.  YOU may use your debit/credit card by clicking on the icon below to make a donation online:

FINANCIAL

Financial Support is always appreciated as this provides us unrestricted funds, which means they can be used wherever the need is greatest. Please make checks payable to the Women's Intercultural Center and mail them to PO Box 2411, Anthony, NM 88021 or YOU may use your debit/credit card by clicking on the icon below to make a donation online:

FOOD DONATIONS

The Women's Intercultural Center has an Emergency Food Pantry which collects and distributes canned food donations to families who are in need. Food items most needed include:

• Canned Meat (ham, tuna, meat spread)
• Peanut Butter
• Chunky Soups and Beef Stew
• Macaroni & Cheese
• Pastas
• Spaghetti Sauce
• Dry Cereal & Oatmeal
• Rice and Canned Beans
• Canned Vegetables and Fruits
• 100% Fruit Juice (Cans or plastic bottles)
• "Sugar Free," "Low Sodium," and "No Salt" Items

Your food donations support our efforts to ensure that no one goes hungry in the communities we serve.

INKIND SERVICES

Many times, what can be most useful to the Women's Intercultural Center is a donation of a service or an item.  Some examples of inkind donations that would be appreciated include but are not limited to:

• Printing
• Postage
• Paper
• Equipment (tables, chairs, linens)
• Restaurant and Beverage Donations
• Catering Supplies
  
• Gallery Equipment
  
• Items for our event raffles
• Gift certificate and prizes for our silent auction (i.e. wine, dinners, trips, events, "pampering" packages)
• Airline Tickets and/or frequent flier miles
• Volunteer Time
• Financial and/or accounting services
• Legal Services
• Construction Materials and Services
• Instructors

There are a number of benefits to a consultant or business to take on pro bono work at the Center:

• Opportunities to apply skills that your current consulting contracts do not offer
  
• Greater exposure of a consultant or business' work
• Increases the amount and quality of your portfolio material to show off to potential paying clients
• Can lead to paid gigs
• Can be refreshing, fun, enlightening change for employees from their usual focus
• Gain experience in and exposure to a whole new sector (nonprofit) which has knowledge, skills, work/management styles and resources that can be applied to the for-profit-sector (some businesses can use employee volunteering as a way to allow employees to develop certain skills relating to professional development)
• Demonstrate a consultant's commitment to the community, which many people take into consideration when choosing whom they are going to do business with
• Opportunity to share your knowledge and impact the lives of our participants

Please click on our volunteer tab to find out other ways YOU can make an impact!

ITEM DONATIONS

Please donate your gently used clothing, office supplies, office equipment, furniture, electronics, small applications and housewares to the Women's Intercultural Center's Honeycomb Thrift Shop. When applicable, qualifying tax-deductible donations are used for programs, business operations, maintenance of our facilities or resold through our Thrift Store.  Proceeds from Thrift Store sales help to partially fund some of the Center’s programming and operational costs.  Based on clothing and shoes donations, the Center makes two annual distributions to the communities we serve.

Store hours are Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

For more information or to request for a donation to be picked up, please call (575) 882-5556.

RECYCLING INACTIVE CELL PHONES

Help the Environment and the Women's Intercultural Center, recycle your inactive cell phone(s). In recycling your inactive cell phone you help save energy and keep usable materials out of the landfills.  Cell phones and PDAS are made of precious metals, copper and plastics-all which require energy to mine and manufacture.  Recycling conserves these materials so they can be turned into new products. You can drop off your inactive cell phone at the Center at 303 Lincoln Street, Anthony, NM or you may mail them to PO Box 2411, Anthony, NM 88021.

SEARCHING AND SHOPPING ON THE INTERNET

Add the Women's Intercultural Center toolbar to Internet Explorer and Firefox. When you add the  Center's toolbar to Internet Explorer and Firefox, each time you shop at one of the more than 1,300 participating stores, a percentage of what you spend will be donated to us at no extra cost to you! (You could even save money as the toolbar provides hundreds of great coupons and details.)  The toolbar also has a search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is donated to us.  No registration is required.  Please pass this along to all of your friends.  The two minutes it takes to add this toolbar to your browser can make a lifetime of difference!  To add the Center's toolbar, click on the icon below:

SHOPPING AT YOUR FAVORITE ALBERTSONS STORE

SHOPPING ONLINE

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!