Your gift is vital to our success — more than half of our annual operating budget comes directly from generous individuals like you.
Because of your support, the Amherst Survival Center can provide nourishing food, essential resources, and a welcoming community for thousands of neighbors each year.
Thank you for being an essential part of this work.
Make a one-time gift
Donations of every size — whether a few dollars, a few hundred, or many thousand — come together to open our doors and say “Yes!” to more than 13,000 neighbors each year.
Your tax-deductible gift provides nourishing food, essential resources, and a welcoming community for all who need support.
Make your donation online, by phone, or by mail:
- Donate online by clicking below
- Call us: (413) 549-3968 ext. 108 or (413) 200-0644
- Mail a check or credit card payment to:
Amherst Survival Center
P.O. Box 9629
North Amherst, MA 01059
Thank you for helping to nourish hope and strengthen our community.
Monthly Giving
Monthly Giving
Every month, thousands of neighbors count on the Amherst Survival Center for nourishment and connection. When you become a monthly sustainer, you provide steady, reliable support that families can count on — fresh food on the table, a warm meal shared, and the peace of knowing help is always there.
Your monthly gift builds stability, hope, and community.
Why donate monthly?
It’s an easy and convenient way to give. Set up a recurring gift online and we can update your billing information or change your donation amount at any time. You can also send a check directly or through your bank.
Low effort, big impact. Automatic, recurring donations help us cut our mailing and administrative costs so we can focus on getting nutritious food and services to our neighbors. Your generosity is felt year-round.
Your monthly donation makes an impact:
- $20 helps provide milk and other dairy products for two families for a month
- $50 supports a family of four with a monthly pantry allocation of healthy groceries
- $250 provides a full month of groceries plus delivery for a group of seniors
Planned Giving
Planned Giving
You’ve already made a difference through your time, generosity, and commitment to the Amherst Survival Center. By including a bequest in your will or estate plan, you can ensure your impact continues — providing nourishing food, vital resources, and a welcoming community for generations to come.
A legacy gift to the Amherst Survival Center helps fight hunger and sustain a vital community resource that thousands of neighbors across Hampshire and Franklin
Counties rely on each year.
Please consult with your financial or legal advisor to include such a provision in your will.
If you’ve already included the Amherst Survival Center in your estate plans, we’d love to know — so we can express our heartfelt thanks and acknowledge your generosity appropriately.
Legal Name: Survival Centers, Inc.
Street Address: 138 Sunderland Road, Amherst, MA 01002
Mailing Address: PO Box 9629, North Amherst, MA 01059
Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)
Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)
If you have a tax-deferred individual retirement account (IRA) and you are age 70 1/2 or older, the IRS requires you to withdraw a certain amount from your IRA each year, even if you don’t want or need the money at that point in time. This is called a required minimum distribution, or RMD, and it increases your total taxable income. However, if the IRA distribution goes directly to a charity, such as the Amherst Survival Center, it is tax-free up to $100,000 per year. The IRS refers to this nontaxable distribution as a qualified charitable distribution, or QCD. A QCD will satisfy your distribution requirement, not incur any tax obligations, and support the work of the Amherst Survival Center all at the same time! Contact the administrator of your IRA to learn more.
GIFTS OF SECURITIES
GIFTS OF SECURITIES
We welcome your donations of stock and securities. Please let us know if you intend to make a gift so we may properly acknowledge it. For more information and instructions, please contact us at development@amherstsurvival.org or 413-549-3968 x101.
We are making great strides in reducing our impact
on the environment and in reducing costs associated
with utilities and waste. Funds saved through these
sustainability efforts flow to our vital food and
nutrition programs. Help us go green!
Solar Donations
Solar Donations
Thank you for considering a gift of net metering credits to the Amherst Survival Center. Electricity maintains cold storage for our food, heats and cools our facility, runs our dishwasher and computers, and lets participants charge their phones, wash clothes and take hot showers.
With the support of generous donors, the Amherst Survival Center installed solar panels in 2018. These panels are projected to meet approximately 25% of the Center’s electricity needs. We have received donations of net metering credits from Amherst Survival Center supporters since May 2015. Donations of additional net metering credits will assist us in reaching our goal of becoming 100% solar in the future.
Instructions to donate your credits:
As the “host” solar donor, please follow these instructions to donate your credits:
1. Donors must submit a Schedule Z or net metering application to EVERSOURCE. A copy of the Schedule Z form may be found here. The Schedule Z can be changed every six months.
A sample of a completed Schedule Z can be found here.
2. Your donation: Donors indicate what percentage (1-100%) of their future net metering credits will go to the Amherst Survival Center. As excess energy is produced by your solar energy system, we’ll see an adjustment on our bill showing that credits have been applied. (Unfortunately, existing credits cannot be transferred to the Center’s account. Only future credits may be donated as noted on the Schedule Z.)
3. Please contact our Director of Operations, Sam Guerin, at 413.549.3968 ext 106 (or by email at: sam@amherstsurvival.org) to let us know that you plan to submit a Schedule Z to EVERSOURCE. Kara will provide you with the Center’s EVERSOURCE account number and service address, information needed for the Schedule Z. This also allows the Center to track your donation and ensure its receipt.
4. Share your donation with us. If you would like a tax receipt for your donations, donors will need to share with us the credit amounts that appear on your monthly electric bills. Sharing this information also helps to confirm that your records match what we see on our statements and lets us acknowledge and confirm receipt of your gift.
Download a form with the above information.
For additional information on being a solar donor and donating net metering credits to the Amherst Survival Center, please contact Sam Guerin by email at sam@amherstsurvival.org or by phone at 413.549.3968 ext 106.
Thank you for sharing your net metering credits with the Amherst Survival Center!
