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You can be a Food Gatherers Full Plate Partner! Commit to a monthly gift today and provide the steady support needed to fight hunger where we live.  

Start your monthly gift now and become a Full Plate Partner.

Your monthly giving makes a difference:

• $25 each month = 600 nutritious meals/year
• $50 each month = 1,200 nutritious meals/year
• $100 each month = 2,400 nutritious meals/year

Full Plate Partner benefits:

• Automatic monthly deductions.
• Annual statements for convenient tax preparation are sent in January of each year.
• Flexibility to change or suspend your donation at any time.
• Specialized thank-yous that highlight current programming and events at Food Gatherers.

Already a Full Plate Partner? Update your credit card or change your gift amount.

Log in to your account using the link in your email receipt and click on “Recurring Donations” in the left column or contact us at 734-761-2796 or at mail@foodgatherers.org

For details on how to update your monthly gift, read these instructions or watch this video for a step-by-step guide.

Become a Full Plate Partner

Create your own Food Gatherers fundraising page to encourage friends, family, and co-workers to join you in the fight against hunger. 

Click the button below and choose “Help Us Fundraise” to get started. For more detailed instructions, check out our Food & Fund Drive Planning Guide. 

Create a fundraising page

Give a gift in honor or memory of the special people and celebrations in your life!

Note: The third window in the check-out process gives the option to make the gift “in honor of” or “in memory of” and to send an email or e-card. If you prefer, you can call us at 734-761-2796 and we will send a hand-written note to the recipient(s).

Are you making a gift in someone’s honor? Download a printable gift card.

Donate Online

Food Gatherers is grateful for QCD donations to support our mission.

A qualified charitable distribution (QCD) is a distribution of funds from your IRA (other than a SEP or SIMPLE IRA) directly to Food Gatherers. IRA owners age 70½ or over can transfer up to $100,000 to charity tax-free each year. These transfers offer eligible older Americans a great way to easily give. For those who are at least 73 years old, QCDs count toward the IRA owner’s required minimum distribution (RMD) for the year.

Food Gatherers’ tax I.D. number is 38-2853858. Our mailing address is PO Box 131037, Ann Arbor MI 48113

Your QCD must be made directly from your IRA custodian to Food Gatherers on your behalf. Each financial institution has its own process for initiating a qualified charitable distribution.

Food Gatherers accepts and is grateful for gifts of stock and appreciated securities.

Download our stock donation information here.

Please contact Food Gatherers to share the stock name, number of shares, intended date of transfer, brokerage name, and confirm gift intent.

Food Gatherers is grateful for DAF donations to support our mission.

Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) are a tax-efficient way to manage charitable donations. DAFs allow donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction, and then recommend grants from the fund over time. 

Food Gatherers’ tax I.D. number is 38-2853858.

Clients of Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, and BNY Mellon can easily make a designation by clicking on the button below:

What will your legacy in our community be?

Planned giving allows you to leave a legacy consistent with your values and beliefs. Your planned gift to Food Gatherers provides us with the confidence and means to innovate and plan for the future. The Forever Gathering Society recognizes community members who have made a planned gift to Food Gatherers. 

For more information about including Food Gatherers in your will or estate plan, download our full Planned Giving Packet.

Let us know if Food Gatherers is already included in your will or estate plan! Download and complete the Confidential Intention Statement (pledge form).

Questions? Please call Food Gatherers at 734-761-2796 or email info@foodgatherers.org.

To assist you in your planned giving, here are two examples of how to indicate a general or undesignated gift to support Food Gatherers’ mission:

Sample Bequest of Remainder of Estate:

I give, devise, and bequeath to Food Gatherers, Tax ID Number: 38-2853858, all (or state the fraction or percentage) of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, both real and personal.

Food Gatherers may be contacted at:

Food Gatherers
1 Carrot Way
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
734-761-2796

Sample Bequest of a Specific Amount:

I give, devise, and bequeath $_____ to Food Gatherers, Tax ID Number: 38-2853858.

Food Gatherers may be contacted at:

Food Gatherers
1 Carrot Way
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
734-761-2796

Food Gatherers has a Nonprofit Endowment Fund at the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation. This Fund helps us fulfill our mission by providing stability in the face of recession, inflation, federal budget cuts, political fluctuations, and other changes.

For information on giving to the Food Gatherers Endowment Fund, contact Food Gatherers at 734-761-2796 or email info@foodgatherers.org.