Email from Doorways We've partnered with CARS – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit – to accept your vehicle donations! Save the date! Rocklands' Pig and Oyster Roast benefiting Doorways is Thursday, May 1st. Tickets on sale soon! 5 Ways to Give That You Might Not Know About Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs) A wonderful opportunity if you are age 70½ and older Did you know? You can make a meaningful gift directly to a qualified charity (up to $105,000) per year from your IRA without having to pay any income taxes on the money. While withdrawals from traditional IRAs are taxable income, qualified charitable distributions (QCDs) are not and can satisfy some or all of your required minimum distribution if you are age 73* or older. QCDs can also be used whether you take the standard deduction or if you itemize deductions. But QCDs do not qualify for charitable tax deductions. *Note: The SECURE ACT 2.0 raised the age to start taking required minimum distributions (RMDs) from 72 to 73 starting in 2023. Learn more. Monthly Giving Join Doorways’ Good Neighbor Club to sustain Doorways’ multiple pathways to safe, stable, and empowered lives! Learn More Gifts of Stock Donations of stock are sold as soon as they are received. Doorways will recognize, for accounting purposes, the value received upon sale. Learn More Planned Giving It’s easier than you think. Planned gifts can be funded with cash, stock, real estate or other tangible personal property. Making Doorways a part of your estate plan can be as simple as including a charitable bequest in your will or living trust or making a beneficiary designation. Learn More NEW! Donate cars to Doorways Doorways has partnered with CARS – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit – to accept your vehicle donations! You can now support Doorways by donating your car, truck, boat or other used vehicle to help us in our mission to create pathways out of homelessness, domestic violence, and sexual assault, leading to safe, stable, and empowered lives. Learn more. You can make your donation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by filling out this online form. Get Started In the News Funding cuts leave domestic violence survivors trapped with their abusers "For a survivor of domestic violence, this funding could mean the difference between having a roof over their head or getting evicted; the difference between having someone who understands a cry for help in their own language or being silenced, with no one who can understand their life-threatening circumstance. It could mean the difference between subsidized child care (and keeping a job) or being unemployed and homeless. These are complex challenges that survivors struggle with for many months, sometimes years to rebuild their lives—even when trauma resurfaces, triggering old wounds and derailing stability." Read More Extreme weather’s dark aftermath: a rise in domestic violence "Our analysis shows that there's an increase in intimate partner violence two years after a disaster, and that this is correlated with certain types of disasters – specifically storms, landslides, and floods." Read More Black women face high domestic violence rates, but stigma keeps many silent, support groups say "So many times, especially as Black women, people don't hear us. They don't see us. And we find ourselves in spaces where we're the only [Black] person either in school, at work, walking down the street, in a restaurant, anywhere. We find ourselves isolated. We heal in community and so being able to come together is just really important for us to find healing." Read More Donate to Doorways Share This Email Share This Email Doorways | P.O. Box 100185 | Arlington, VA 22210 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice