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The Hope Light Foundation needs your help to achieve our Project goals and objectives which are dedicated to communicating cancer awareness information to impact cancer prevention, impact cancer victim survivorship and support education and research.  The Foundation is supported entirely from donations.  With your donation, we can work together in the fight against cancer and save thousands of lives that would otherwise be lost.  One of these lives may be that of a family member, a friend, a colleague or a son or daughter of a cancer survivor that may someday find a cure for cancer.  

The Hope Light Foundation is a nonprofit "public charity" with 501(c)(3) federal tax status.  All donations to The Hope Light Foundation are tax deductible.

General Donations

Donations may be made in the form of checks/money orders, real estate, wills, trusts, life insurance and stock gift transfers. 

 

Donate by mail:

Donation checks or money orders can be mailed to:

 

    The Hope Light Foundation

    c/o Commerce Bank

    P.O. Box 795035

    St. Louis, MO 63179-0795

 

For additional donation information, contact:

 

The Hope Light Foundation

(314) 838-4959

or

info@hopelightproject.com

 

 

Contributions and Conditions

    Real Estate

The Hope Light Foundation will accept gifts of real estate, subject to approval by the Foundation's Board of Directors.  Donors will receive a charitable income tax deduction for the fair market value of the property to include land and anything permanently affixed to the land, and those things attached to a building.

     Wills, Trusts, and Life Insurance

The Hope light Foundation will accept bequests made through a donor's will or living trust.  The Hope Light Foundation must be named in the estate plan for a specific amount, a percent of share or as a residual beneficiary of an estate after payment of bequests to others.  The gift can be revoked by the donor as situations occur. 

     Stock Gift Transfers 

A gift of stock can be made to The Hope Light Foundation via electronic transfer, mailing, or hand delivery.  All donations of securities will be liquidated upon receipt by The Hope Light Foundation.  Restricted stock will be liquidated as soon as the restriction period has expired.

Matching Gifts

Corporations will often match gifts made by employees, officers, directors, and in some cases spouses and/or retired employees, officers, or directors. More than 1,000 American companies have adopted corporate matching gift plans to help support nonprofit organizations. Consult your company’s personnel or community relations department for guidelines.