Scripps Kensington is dependent on the generosity of its donors. Through your gifts, we are able to continue to provide exceptional care and services to all our residents. From our earliest days onward, the rich history and tradition of this organization has fostered a commitment to serve those who are in financial need. Today, we continue to subsidize residents--our charitable care will exceed a staggering $3.5 million during this fiscal year. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, and your contributions are totally tax-deductible.
Last year, The Episcopal Home Communities received more than 450 gifts. Our donors span from our community friends to Board members to volunteers to corporate friends to scores of residents at our three communities to their families and, finally, to more than 50 employees across our campuses. This is our proudest testimonial to the
work we do.
Where to Give
You may choose to direct your gift to one of the following areas of focus at Scripps Kensington.
- Benevolence Fund
Our Scripps Kensington Benevolence Fund was established in 2006. The Benevolence Fund supports the heart of our original mission - to provide comfortable and dignified living choices to under-served or otherwise compromised seniors, whose income and assets are insufficient. More than 150 residents at Scripps Kensington will receive subsidized care and services this year. Some say that they would be homeless, were they not with us. View our Scripps Kensington Benevolence Fund brochure online.
- Employee Education Fund
The Scripps Kensington Employee Education Fund also was established in 2006, and awards financial aid for employees who go to college, take classes or participate in education outside the workplace. This Fund already has provided 40 employees across our campuses with opportunities they would not have been able to afford otherwise. Dining room servers, maintenance employees and caregivers have received scholarships for additional education. View our Scripps Kensington Employee Education Fund brochure online.
- Where Most Needed
We always appreciate unrestricted funding, which is directed to general operating costs. In the end, all our resources enable us to provide the best care and services to our residents that we possibly can.
How to Give
We accept contributions online, through the mail or over the telephone--whatever is easiest for you.
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You may make a gift through our secure online connection, via credit card.
Writing a Check
Please make check payable to The Episcopal Home Communities, note that you would like your gift to be directed to Scripps Kensington, and tell us program to which you would like it directed. Please mail to:
Development Office
The Episcopal Home Communities
1609 W. Valley Blvd., Suite 328
Alhambra, CA 91803
Giving by Telephone
To make a gift by telephone, via VISA or MasterCard, please call Stefanie Garcia at (626) 281-3776, x 237. Please consider making your gift a monthly one!
Making a Gift of Securities
Gifts of securities are welcome and can provide tax advantages to you, too. Please contact Janelle Morton (626) 300-6460 to obtain instructions for making a wire transfer of securities. This is a simple procedure.
Making a Gift of a Vehicle
You may make a charitable gift of a car, boat, RV, or other vehicle. Just click here.
Making a Planned, or Deferred, Gift
Many generous bequests have contributed to our financial soundness. Ethel Holt, a wealthy volunteer whose chauffeur delivered her to do her hands-on work at the original Episcopal Home, bequeathed $7 million in the 1950's. Henry Wade, whose mother and step-grandmother both had lived at The Kensington, left a legacy of $4 million in 2004. Most recently, Ruth Shellhorn Kueser, who was the landscape architect for Main Street at Disneyland, left more than $2 million to The Episcopal Home Communities, in honor of her aunt, who had lived at The Kensington. You, too, can plan a Legacy Gift, and you will be welcomed into our Legacy Society.
A planned gift may result in considerable tax benefits for donors and their estates, while promoting their own interest in the future of an organization dear to them. Planned gifts are made in your future, for our future, and may be in the form of bequests, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, charitable gift annuities, and other deferred plans.
You will become a member of The Episcopal Home Communities Legacy Society when you notify us that you have remembered Scripps Kensington in your estate plans.
We welcome the following Founding Members of our LEGACY SOCIETY:
2008
Anonymous (The Covington)
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd D. Armstrong (The Covington)
Elizabeth R. Austin (Scripps Kensington)
The Reverend Canon George Cummings (Scripps Kensington)
Ana Maria Fraga (The Canterbury)
Doris F. Hammond (Scripps Kensington)
Ellen Hocking-Keeler* (The Canterbury)
George McDougall (Scripps Kensington)
Julia* and Robert L. Morris (The Covington)
Janelle Hardin Morton (The Episcopal Home Communities)
Elsie Sadler (The Episcopal Home Communities)
Kimberly A. Schugart and Eric Remelmeyer* (The Episcopal Home Communities)
Margaret Schumacher (The Covington)
Martha L. Tamburrano (The Episcopal Home Communities)
Beth Wehrle (The Covington)
*deceased
Memorial Gifts
We are pleased to accept your gift in memory of a friend or resident, which will be acknowledged in our biannual newsletter. Memorial gifts may be made in any of the ways enumerated above.
Contact Information
Janelle Morton
Vice President of Development
The Episcopal Home Communities
1609 W. Valley Blvd., Suite 328
Alhambra, CA 91803
(626) 300-6460