Designated Offering: Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence (CARDV)

Designated Offering

Center Against Rape & Domestic Violence (CARDV)

Each month, we designate a particular social service organization for financial support through special collections on Sundays. This July, our special offering goes to CARDV.

CARDV exists to provide safety, shelter and support to adults and children who are affected by sexual and domestic violence, so they can live without fear of harm. It runs a 24-hour hotline to support people in crisis. It also provides educational programs for adults and teens and leadership within the community in order to change conditions in our society that cultivate these forms of violence.

“Calling the hotline the first time was hard, but I’m glad you [CARDV] were there when I didn’t know what else to do. A million thank-yous could not cover the gratitude I feel for what you have made possible for us.”

Each year, CARDV responds to more than 7,000 calls to the crisis and support line, provides shelter for more than 100 adults and children, helps hundreds of adults and teens navigate the legal system, gives medical support to adults, teens and pre-teens at hospitals, and drives many thousands of miles responding to needs and transporting clients.

How to help

Make a designated offering

To support CARDV financially, make out a check to Church of the Good Samaritan, write “designated offering” on the memo line, and place it in the plate during the Sunday services offertory or mail it to our office. You can also use the “designated offering” envelope found in the back of each pew. At the end of each month, we write a single check from Good Sam to the organization we’ve designated for our support.

Donate an item on the CARDV wishlist

Along with financial support for CARDV, we also seek donations of the items on the center’s wishlist, below. When people flee a violent situation, they don’t typically have time to gather personal items; CARDV always welcomes donations of full-size personal care items, household items and children’s items such as coloring books and crayons. See the CARDV website for more information.

When you donate to the wishlist, you help sustain CARDV’s shelter program and provide for the needs of survivors and their families. Donated items may be placed in the box near the church office.

“I know that all the items you give out have been donated by someone in the community, so every time I use the soap I was given by you all, I think someone out there cares for me.”