Support Your ReachOut Program
The Board of Directors has successfully developed ReachOut, a simple way for tax-exempt charitable funds to be given to ACT. ReachOut is a program board member Jerry Braznell is passionate about: "What more charitable gift can you give than to these people—people who need help?" With ReachOut, any individual can make honorariums or memorials to benefit the programs or participants of ACT. The gifts "might be $10, $20, $100 but it all adds up," he says.
Now with ReachOut, ACT has a charitable giving program to serve participants in significant ways. As a successful businessman for more than four decades, Braznell sees the need for ReachOut because ACT's budget relies heavily on state funding. "Because state budgets often are shaky during hard times, it's prudent to build a charitable base," he explains. Someday he'd like to see ACT receive 20 percent of its revenue from charitable sources. ReachOut contributions are all tax-exempt and are used solely to improve conditions and care for ACT participants. To be a part of ReachOut you can give:
- Special gifts celebrating any event such
- as a birthday, anniversary or special occasion.
- Memorials in the honor of a relative, friend, or special individual.
"No family can bear the total cost of this," he says of the cost of supporting an individual through ACT. "You're talking in the area of $40,000 to $50,000 a year for each participant. I don't think it's the total responsibility of the state. It's got to be a blending." Besides, he says, ReachOut gifts can be ear-marked for specific uses. "It's one of the greatest things a community can do—to have concern and care for people with disabilities."
