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Your gift to the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies will help improve the lives of the low-income New Yorkers served by our network of community and faith based human service providers, which operate over 1,200 programs in high-need neighborhoods throughout New York City.

There are many ways you can give.

Donate online, using our secure on-line donation form
Make a Recurring Gift
Our new Sustaining Donor Program provides a steady source of support for FPWA’s programs and services. Your tax-deductible gift is paid automatically through your credit card each month – no envelopes, no stamps, no reminders.
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Send a check payable to the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies to:
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
Development Department
281 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
Donate by phone
To make a credit card donation over the phone, please call Beverley Blake at (212) 801-1353.
Bequests and Planned giving
You can make a lasting difference in the lives of New York's neediest residents by leaving a bequest to FPWA in your will, or through a trust or life insurance gift. To learn more about what you can do today to support our programs and services well into the future, contact Beverley Blake, ph. (212) 801-1353.
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Gifts of stocks, bonds, mutual fund shares and other securities may help you avoid capital gains tax. Speak with your tax advisor for more specific information. If you'd like to give a gift of securities, please contact Beverley Blake, ph. (212) 801-1353.
Double your contribution with a matching gift.
Your company may double or even triple your donation to FPWA! Ask your human resources department if your company has a matching gift program and, if it does, ask for a matching gift form. Then fill out the form according to guidelines and send it to us with your donation.

The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501 © (3) organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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STORY OF HOPE - From The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund

In the Bronx, Getting Back All 40 Winks

Poverty constricts how people live. For one family on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, it affected how they slept.

Joydeth Martinez, 29, had been living in a Bronx homeless shelter for months with her youngest child, her 8-year-old son, Joseth Torres.

With the help of a city rent subsidy program, Ms. Martinez was able to move out of the shelter system and into an apartment, a one-bedroom in a five-story walk-up on the Grand Concourse.

Ms. Martinez, Joseth and her 10-year-old daughter, Dayzha Torres, who had been staying with her father and Ms. Martinez’s oldest son while Ms. Martinez and Joseth were in the shelter system, moved in in February 2008.

But it was not quite home: Just about all the furniture Ms. Martinez could afford was a kitchen table, a futon and a twin bed....