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Be the Difference
Your financial support enables us to fulfill our mission to help children and adults with developmental disabilities, brain injury and epilepsy realize their potential and live the life of their choice. Your gift of any amount, big or small, matters.
We need your support to enhance our residential homes with the things that make life worth living such as outdoor recreational spaces; to provide scholarships to our camp & teen weekend programs; to provide additional training to staff; and to increase the access of both staff and person supported to technology.
Let’s Connect
We’d love to chat about how you can make a difference. Contact Jill Johnson for more information about any of the programs on this page.
Mobile: (310) 995-6810
Email: jejohnson@epinyorg
Ways to Give
Donate Online
The most secure way to make a gift is online. Click the button below to make a gift one-time gift or set up a donation schedule that best suits you. You may also make a gift in honor or memory of a loved one.
Donate by Check
Send a check payable to “EPI” to:
EPI
1650 South Ave.
Rochester, NY 14620
Matching Gifts
A matching gift is terrific way to increase the value of your support. Check if your company or workplace has a matching gift program. Please do not hesitate to contact us, we can provide all documentation necessary to your company.
Special Events
Join us for the Annual Chocolate Ball as well as other fundraising and community events. There are many ways to get involved including sponsorship, volunteering, and registration.
Annual Giving
Unrestricted annual gifts provide the most flexibility, allowing the agency the ability to allocate funds to the greatest area of need. Recurring payment options provide a quick and easy way to stay on track with annual contributions.
Circle of Empowerment
The Circle of Empowerment (COE) recognizes lead donors who make an annual pledge of $1,000 – $24,999 for three consecutive years. These gifts help fund current programs, offset operating costs, and provide more certainty for year-over-year planning.
Major Gifts
Individual donors, grant-making trusts and foundations play a critical role in supporting our work. Major gifts of $25,000 or more can be directed to support the areas of need that resonate most with you.
Planned Gifts
You can make a lasting difference in the lives of people we serve by including EPI in your will or designating us as a beneficiary. Click the button below to learn about your options.
Organize A Fundraiser
If you have creativity and enthusiasm and love doing things your way, we encourage you to organize a fundraiser to benefit EPI. It can be as simple as a Facebook birthday fundraiser or as complex as a golf tournament or certified 5K run!
Many of our dedicated supporters have created fundraisers to benefit EPI in memory or honor of a loved one. Contact us to get started.
United Way
You may support EPI through your donation to United Way.
Choose donor option #2215 (EPI) and your gift will help support our programs and services for individuals with epilepsy, developmental disabilities, and brain injuries.
Vehicles for Charity
If you have an older car you would like to get rid of, please consider donating it to EPI. We have a partnership with Vehicles for Charity and we receive 80% of the proceeds of the sale of your vehicle to help us continue providing services and supports to individuals with disabilities in our communities. Contact us or you may also complete your vehicle donation online.
Privacy Statement
EPI is committed to respecting the privacy of our donors and will not share donor information with any third party.
Use of Information: EPI uses donor information to understand their needs and provide them with better service. Specifically, we use donor information to help complete any transaction, communicate back to the donor, and update the donor on agency happenings. Credit card numbers are used only for donation or payment processing and are not retained for other purposes. We use the comments the donor offers to provide them with information requested, and we take seriously each recommendation as to how we might improve communication.
No Sharing of Personal Information: EPI will not sell, rent, or lease personal information of donors to other organizations. We assure the donor that the contact information of all our donors will be kept confidential. Donor identity is release via our annual report [link to publication page] and includes only the listing of the donor’s name and category of giving. Donors may choose at any time to be listed as anonymous by contacting us at events@epiny.org. Use of donor information will be limited to the internal purposes of EPI and only to further agency activities and mission of EPI.
It is our desire to not send unwanted mail to our donors. Donors will be removed from our mailing list upon request. To remove your name from our mailing list, please contact EPI at (585) 442-6420 or send an e-mail to events@epiny.org.
Contact
We are here to help. Get in touch with us if you have questions, need assistance or more information.
Email info@epiny.org
Phone (585) 442-6420