It is Easy to Donate to the American Red Cross!

Step 1: Decide how you would like your donation applied.

General Chapter Donation

You can help provide disaster relief, health and safety training, and services to the armed forces to your friends and neighbors here in the Bluegrass by making a financial gift to the general chapter.

Program Donation

You can donate directly to local disaster relief, armed forces emergency services, WHEELS, or health and safety trainings by making a financial gift to the individual program.

International Response Fund Donation

You can help the victims of countless crises, like the recent earthquake in Haiti, around the world each year by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross International Response Fund, which will provide immediate relief and long-term support through supplies, technical assistance and other support to help those in need.

Corporate Contribution

One of the best ways for your company to help is through a financial donation to the Bluegrass Chapter of the American Red Cross.  Your company's financial contribution allows us to quickly provide basic necessities for disaster victims and their families while stimulating our local economy.

Step 2: Note whether the donation is a honorary gift or memorial.

There are many ways to honor and remember the events of your life and the lives of those dear to you.  Through a Honorary or Memorial Gift to the Bluegrass Chapter of the American Red Cross, you can ensure a special remembrance while meeting the humanitarian needs of the community.   A special gift can be given in honor of a wedding, birthday, anniversary, graduation, or other holiday.  Or you can give a gift in memory of a loved one who has passed.

Step 3: Choose the method of giving and remember to let us know how you would like the donation applied.

Online

In person or by mail

Checks Payable to:
Bluegrass Chapter of the American Red Cross
1450 Newtown Pike
Lexington, KY  40511

By Phone

859-253-1331

Other Ways to Give

For details on how to give to the Bluegrass Chapter of the American Red Cross through the ways listed below, contact Director of Development Winn Stephens at (859) 253-1331 or E-mail him.

Corporate Matching Gifts
Many companies match employees' contributions to charity.  Please check with your human resources department to find out if your company has such a program.  If your company does match employee contributions, please include the appropriate matching gift form with your donation.

Gifts of Stock
If you own stocks and bonds that have increased in value, it may be more advantageous to donate these securities to the American Red Cross, Bluegrass Area Chapter, rather than sell them and donate the proceeds from the sale.  By donating the securities directly, you may completely avoid the capital gains tax while receiving a tax deduction on the securities' increased value.  The Red Cross can transact your gift of securities quickly and inexpensively so your donation will have the greatest possible impact.

Bequests
Many friends make charitable gifts by bequests in their wills.  Remember the Red Cross in your will is a special way to ensure that our work will continue for a long time to come.  Such gifts may include a bequest of cash, securities or property in a specific sum or percentage, real estate, or a charitable remainder trust.  To make a bequest to the Bluegrass Chapter of the American Red Cross, the following language will help your attorney:

"I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Red Cross, Bluegrass Area Chapter, the sum of $______ (or otherwise describe the gift or specify a percentage of the estate) to be used in furthering their services and programs."