How You Can Help

  • 2012-13 Annual Appeal

    Each year with your support, Bridges helps thousands of people achieve health, hope and recovery.
    This year, Bridges asks you to give to a very important initiative that will matter to
    thousands of our family, friends and neighbors who reach out to us for help. We urge you make a year-end gift to Bridges’ Give & Grow campaign. Your donation to our building project will let us help more of the people in our communities who are working to recover from mental health and addiction disorders.

  • Become a Bridges Sustainer

  • Sustainers are crucial to the every day operation of Bridges. With your monthly donation your ensure that Bridges will continue to help thousands of people every year.
    Choose to have $25, $15 or as little as $5 a month automatically directed to Bridges through your credit card payment. Select the Option amount below and you will be directed to the donation page to complete your donation. The subscription donation will expire 12 months from the date of subscription.

  • Sustaining Donor Options

  • Other ways you can help Bridges.

  • Cash or in-kind gifts, gifts of appreciated securities or personal property are typically the most common and often the most feasible. A gift can be of any amount and are tax deductible. Cash gifts may be deducted at rates of up to 50% of one’s adjusted gross income; gifts of appreciated property, including securities, are deductible at rates up to 30%.

  • For further information about these options, please contact the Development Office at Bridges, 203.878.6365, ext. 359 or email mhotchkiss@bridgesmilford.org or your attorney, CPA or other estate-planning professional.

  • Ways of Giving

  • Individual, Corporate or Foundation Donors may designate gifts as:

    Unrestricted: to be used where Bridges needs it most to meet the needs of clients.

    Restricted: providing options for you to determine how your contribution will be used.

Businesses may also support Bridges through:
    Corporate Matching gift programs 

    In-kind donations of goods and services.

  • Helping Hands Community Thrift Store

  • Bridges has partnered with Helping Hands Community Thrift Store & Furniture Bank, LLC. Bridges will receive 18% of the sale price of all items sold through their Thrift Store that are designated to the agency. The Thrift Store is open to the general public.
    Check it out

  • Other Ways to Give

  • Bequests: gifts named in a person’s will.

    • For a stated amount
    • For a stated item
    • A percent of the estate
    • A remainder of an estate