Donate to Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter is a not for profit Registered Charity (11928214RR0001).

We rely on funding from a diverse base in the community. We rely on volunteers for all of our fundraising activities therefore 100% of your donation goes directly into the operation of the transition house and crisis line.

Easy Ways to Give:

Financial Donations:

ONE TIME DONATIONS

You can send cheques and mail orders to us at:

Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter
c/o P.O. Box 21562
1424 Commercial Drive
Vancouver, B.C.
V5L 5G2

Remember to include your return address so we can mail you a tax receipt.

MONTHLY DONOR CLUB
 

You can pledge a set amount of money each month to Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter. We suggest half of a day's pay per month. Contributions can be directly withdrawn from your bank account or given as post dated cheques. All donations are tax deductable. A tax receipt will be issued in January of each year for the previous year's donations. To make a regular monthly donation, print out a form to fill out and mail it to us along with a blank cheque OR you can send in a year's worth of post-dated cheques.

Please call 604-872-8212

or e-mail us info@rapereliefshelter.bc.ca if you wish to have further information.

DONATE ONLINE

You can donate to us online at canadahelps.org. CanadaHelps is a public charitable foundation and is Canada's only donation portal that provides access to all of Canada's 80,000 charities, from national organizations like national cancer charities to smaller groups like local animal shelters and soup kitchens.

ESTABLISH A TRUST FUND
A trust fund would pay interest, generate a tax credit and eventually benefit Vancouver Rape Relief. When you establish a Living Trust (there are several ways to do this) and make Vancouver Rape Relief the residual beneficiary, you receive the interest on your money and also receive a significant tax benefit. Your financial advisor can assist you to make and assess the value of this type of donation.

LEAVE A LEGACY

  • Include Vancouver Rape Relief in your will
    When you include Vancouver Rape Relief as beneficiary     in your will, your estate receives a tax deduction on the final income tax return;

  • Name Vancouver Rape Relief as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy.
    You can receive Income Tax receipts for the premiums on the policy, or you     may assign fully paid life insurance policies and receive a tax benefit. Your insurance advisor and/or financial advisor will be able to make and advise you on all aspects of the use of life insurance policies for charitable giving.
 

Donations In Kind

  • New or gently used linens such as bath towels, face cloths, bed sheets, blankets

  • Regular donations of foods such as pastas, rice, coffee, tea, cheese, milk

  • Regular donations of fresh fruit and vegetables

  • Toiletries such as toothpaste, shampoo, soap, moisturizers, combs and brushes (sorry, not the hotel sized bottles)

  • Cleaning supplies such as dish soap, laundry soap, bleach

  • Office supplies such as pens and pads of paper

  • Children's toys, especially for older children like puzzles and games, tickets to activities such as magic shows and local events

  • Gift certificates for all of the above items

  • Meeting Space for volunteer training interviews, volunteer training, collective meetings usually in the evenings and weekends.

  • Storage Space

DONATIONS WE ARE CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING:

For clothing and small house hold items/ gently used toys we recommend that you drop off donations to one of the following locations where women escaping abuse can obtain them for free or very cheap and pick and choose items that fit for them.  (Please kindly tell them that you got the referal information from us at Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter).
 

Mis'cel'any Women Helping Women (2 locations)
2615 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC (604) 254-9999
or
1029 Commercial Drive
Vancouver, BC (604) 215-1699

Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
302 Columbia Street,
Vancouver, BC
(604) 681-8480

Sheway (children's toys)
533 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
(604) 216-1699

Furniture and Larger Household Items:
Unfortunately we usually don't have access to transportation for larger items or storage space so unless we can coordinate your donation with a resident moving out of our shelter it is unlikely we can accept it. However, women escaping abuse can obtain furniture free of charge from the following charity. If you donate to them they can arrange pick up for a small fee. Please let them know that you received the community referral from Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter when you call to donate.

Helping Families in Need Society
Tel: (604) 294 3087

Community Fundraisers:

ANNUAL WALK FOR RAPE RELIEF

Join us on the last Sunday of May for a terrific walk around the seawall, a free "thank you!" picnic for walkathon fundraisers, free childcare and entertainment in the park. We will soon be updating the pledge sheet for people to print out and use to get pledges!

Find out more

BOWLATHON!
Nov 18, 2011 click here for details