Ways To Give
There Are So Many Ways To Give!
Join as a member. Please see our member levels and join us as an annual member. Your organization can join as a partner in justice and equity or if you are an individual you can support a local non-profit in being able to host a training.
Sustaining Monthly Donation: When donors make a monthly commitment it supports our day to day Programs and operations plan and move smoothly.
Business Owners and non-profit leaders: Join SidGlo in supporting BRIDGE by joining the Sunny Purchase Program. Tell them BRIDGE sent you!
Sustaining Monthly Donation: When donors make a monthly commitment it supports our day to day Programs and operations plan and move smoothly.
Business Owners and non-profit leaders: Join SidGlo in supporting BRIDGE by joining the Sunny Purchase Program. Tell them BRIDGE sent you!
Text to Donate:
Text "Justice" to 1-844-3-UNITY-1
Text "Justice" to 1-844-3-UNITY-1
Learn more about supporting bridge programs
BRIDGE’s Reparations Fund: We now have a fund to prioritize healing and gestures of community kindness and belonging to those members in our community who have been attacked by bias, hate, and ignorance. We send gifts, cards, hugs and listeners. Help us reach $50,000 to create a Trust by making your donation today.
BRIDGE’s Peace of Mind Campaign: We need BRIDGE around for the long haul, so we’re inviting in a circle of 10 donors who will lay the foundation for an endowment. 10 donors at $10,000. Will you join us? Write us at [email protected] if you’d like more information. We would love to speak with you.
BRIDGE Rainy Day Fund: You can transfer stocks with Evoque Investments. Evoque are our new sponsors and we have re-opened our fund that supported us in our renovation project. For inquiries, contact Maura Shannon (Evoque) through 413-854-4086 / [email protected] or Gwendolyn VanSant (BRIDGE) through 318-528-1011 /[email protected].
Comprehensive Campaign: We need BRIDGE around for the long haul, so we’re inviting in a circle of 10 catalyst donors who will lay the foundation for financial stability for BRIDGE infrastructure, staffing and Solidarity Projects. 10 donors at $10,000 for 5 years is our goal. Tiered giving to reach $6 million dollar by our 20th anniversary!
Sallie VanSant Memorial Fund: Honoring Sallie VanSant and her expertise & dedication to social work and personal healing of women since her passing four years ago, this fund supports women and girls in the Berkshires who are seeking to fill in gaps of safety and stability in their lives through our unique “Women to Women” program.
Sovereignty and Empowerment Micro-grants: Contribute to BRIDGE's mutual aid program in increments of $250 to support BRIDGE families who face financial crisis. Or sponsor a seasonal farm or grocery share for a family at $600.
Open Doors: With this donation, you support one of our first-generation BRIDGE children with college or post-high school training or education. You can also sponsor a Happiness Toolbox campership of $250, that offers a student of high emotional, financial, social, developmental and/or academic needs access to a positive education and student leadership toolbox that serves them in all aspects of their emotional spiritual physical and mental health.
You can also sponsor a BRIDGE Youth Leader, LIT (Leader in Training) in our Youth Corps, Happiness Toolbox campership of $250, that offers a student of high emotional, financial, social, developmental and/or academic needs access to a positive education and student leadership toolbox that serves them in all aspects of their emotional spiritual physical and mental health
Need other, even simpler ways to give? Write us to tell us your birthday and when your birthday comes around, we’ll tell you how to use a Facebook campaign to raise funds for BRIDGE. (I am sure we will have a surprise for you, too!)
Or, link your Amazon account to our BRIDGE Amazon Smile so that you make donations to BRIDGE every time you shop on Amazon.
Business Collaborators- Look below for fun ways to give:
Holiday and Thank you Gifts that support BRIDGE: Send a pack with a purpose: Join Only in My Dreams in supporting BRIDGE with the Restorative Justice Box!
Business Owners and non-profit leaders: Become a member or Join Sidney Global in supporting BRIDGE by joining the Sunny Purchase Program. From Sunny Purchase: Join our thriving ecosystem of businesses who are helping us foster a new and sustainable way of giving without any additional expenditures of time or resources. Yes you read that right, support and add value to BRIDGE at zero cost to you.
Random Harvest supports our mutual aid orders by extending wholesale opportunities and donating to each food sovereignty and empowerment distribution for two years!
For more information and options, please click here to email us!
BRIDGE’s Peace of Mind Campaign: We need BRIDGE around for the long haul, so we’re inviting in a circle of 10 donors who will lay the foundation for an endowment. 10 donors at $10,000. Will you join us? Write us at [email protected] if you’d like more information. We would love to speak with you.
BRIDGE Rainy Day Fund: You can transfer stocks with Evoque Investments. Evoque are our new sponsors and we have re-opened our fund that supported us in our renovation project. For inquiries, contact Maura Shannon (Evoque) through 413-854-4086 / [email protected] or Gwendolyn VanSant (BRIDGE) through 318-528-1011 /[email protected].
Comprehensive Campaign: We need BRIDGE around for the long haul, so we’re inviting in a circle of 10 catalyst donors who will lay the foundation for financial stability for BRIDGE infrastructure, staffing and Solidarity Projects. 10 donors at $10,000 for 5 years is our goal. Tiered giving to reach $6 million dollar by our 20th anniversary!
Sallie VanSant Memorial Fund: Honoring Sallie VanSant and her expertise & dedication to social work and personal healing of women since her passing four years ago, this fund supports women and girls in the Berkshires who are seeking to fill in gaps of safety and stability in their lives through our unique “Women to Women” program.
Sovereignty and Empowerment Micro-grants: Contribute to BRIDGE's mutual aid program in increments of $250 to support BRIDGE families who face financial crisis. Or sponsor a seasonal farm or grocery share for a family at $600.
Open Doors: With this donation, you support one of our first-generation BRIDGE children with college or post-high school training or education. You can also sponsor a Happiness Toolbox campership of $250, that offers a student of high emotional, financial, social, developmental and/or academic needs access to a positive education and student leadership toolbox that serves them in all aspects of their emotional spiritual physical and mental health.
You can also sponsor a BRIDGE Youth Leader, LIT (Leader in Training) in our Youth Corps, Happiness Toolbox campership of $250, that offers a student of high emotional, financial, social, developmental and/or academic needs access to a positive education and student leadership toolbox that serves them in all aspects of their emotional spiritual physical and mental health
Need other, even simpler ways to give? Write us to tell us your birthday and when your birthday comes around, we’ll tell you how to use a Facebook campaign to raise funds for BRIDGE. (I am sure we will have a surprise for you, too!)
Or, link your Amazon account to our BRIDGE Amazon Smile so that you make donations to BRIDGE every time you shop on Amazon.
Business Collaborators- Look below for fun ways to give:
Holiday and Thank you Gifts that support BRIDGE: Send a pack with a purpose: Join Only in My Dreams in supporting BRIDGE with the Restorative Justice Box!
Business Owners and non-profit leaders: Become a member or Join Sidney Global in supporting BRIDGE by joining the Sunny Purchase Program. From Sunny Purchase: Join our thriving ecosystem of businesses who are helping us foster a new and sustainable way of giving without any additional expenditures of time or resources. Yes you read that right, support and add value to BRIDGE at zero cost to you.
Random Harvest supports our mutual aid orders by extending wholesale opportunities and donating to each food sovereignty and empowerment distribution for two years!
For more information and options, please click here to email us!
In 2021, BRIDGE dug deep into food sovereignty and mutual aid again, and that aspect of our work gives me and my team such pride. We continued forging connections with partnering farms and businesses, volunteers and donors who have stayed with us for 90 weeks strong, making this vital part of our justice work and community care a dependable reality.
2022 is BRIDGE’s 15th anniversary year of our founding and 2023 we celebrate 15years of being incorporated as a 501c3. The backbone of our work has always been opening dialogue within the community to push for systemic change, and we will go as hard as ever on that aspect of our mission. We have trained Berkshire County’s largest hiring institutions, cultural institutions, and several partnering non-profits through the ILC. Outcomes such as pay equity advancements across the county and region and strong collaborations with BIPOC lead partners in the region and our ILC alumni!
2023 we are emerging with the charge of channeling our access to resources directly in to the vulnerable populations impacted by the Pandemic. With new funding sources of VOCA, BCPSA, HRiA and CDBG-CARES Fund, BRIDGE emerges with a Solidarity Economy project rooted in the 2020-2022 mutual aid stemming from our core programs. Stay tuned to learn more! We have a Solidarity Farm and Garden for farming and gardening projects working towards food sovereignty; Solidarity Kitchen Pantry, Solidarity Meeting House with wellness and healing programs for our BIPOGM communities;Hamsa Home, a temporary supported housing offering for BIOGM community members, leaders, families, staff for 3-30 days for houselessness, displacement and respite; and a Solidarity Library in a time where our country reckons with banning books and blocking truth, reconciliation and reparation. Stay tuned for more details!
2022 is BRIDGE’s 15th anniversary year of our founding and 2023 we celebrate 15years of being incorporated as a 501c3. The backbone of our work has always been opening dialogue within the community to push for systemic change, and we will go as hard as ever on that aspect of our mission. We have trained Berkshire County’s largest hiring institutions, cultural institutions, and several partnering non-profits through the ILC. Outcomes such as pay equity advancements across the county and region and strong collaborations with BIPOC lead partners in the region and our ILC alumni!
2023 we are emerging with the charge of channeling our access to resources directly in to the vulnerable populations impacted by the Pandemic. With new funding sources of VOCA, BCPSA, HRiA and CDBG-CARES Fund, BRIDGE emerges with a Solidarity Economy project rooted in the 2020-2022 mutual aid stemming from our core programs. Stay tuned to learn more! We have a Solidarity Farm and Garden for farming and gardening projects working towards food sovereignty; Solidarity Kitchen Pantry, Solidarity Meeting House with wellness and healing programs for our BIPOGM communities;Hamsa Home, a temporary supported housing offering for BIOGM community members, leaders, families, staff for 3-30 days for houselessness, displacement and respite; and a Solidarity Library in a time where our country reckons with banning books and blocking truth, reconciliation and reparation. Stay tuned for more details!