Donating to OAR

In this uncertain economic climate, nonprofit 501(c) organizations such as OAR confront major challenges coping with budget cuts for social services at both state and local levels of government. But the trend toward fiscal austerity does not adequately address the sea change in recent years toward privatization in the social services delivery system. Thus as the burden of public health and safety falls increasingly upon the private, nonprofit sector, financial support for these programs dwindles.

It is therefore contingent upon community organizations and individual donors to recognize the public safety benefits of OAR programs and services: reducing the costly cycle of recidivism, eliminating homelessness, promoting gainful employment, and ensuring that parents responsibly provide for their children. Please support our efforts to make your community a healthier and safer place to live. Become a part of the OAR mission. Give generously. All donations are tax deductible.

Donations of all kinds go directly to programs that benefit our clients. Become a beacon of hope for your community.

	Provide a winter coat for an incarcerated individual released in January.
	Contribute the cost of an ex-offender’s job search to attain stable employment.
	Help a young man or woman ‘make right from wrong’ through community service.
	Assist the spouse of an incarcerated individual to improve her income and provide for her children.
	Support therapeutic and educational housing programs to incarcerated individuals.
	Meet emergency food, shelter and clothing needs of newly released offenders.
	Provide temporary transportation assistance for an ex-offender to make it to critical appointments.
	Help sustain the volunteer programs that provide life skills training, recovery support and educational assistance to hundreds of incarcerated individuals.
	Link an ex-offender or family member with essential community resources.
	Make sure an incarcerated individual’s child receives a Christmas present this year.

Financial Contributions

OAR welcomes financial donations. You may contribute by check, online, through United Way (8078), or through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC- 26226).

Via Check Checks may be sent to the following address, payable to OAR of Arlington County: OAR of Arlington County, Inc. Attention: Director of Administration 1400 North Uhle Street, Suite 704 Arlington, VA 22201 703.228.7030

Online Donations may be made online via Network for Good.

Via United Way: Donations may be made through United Way Please designate OAR of Arlington County (Agency Code: 8078) by doing the following: Click here: Donate through United Way Enter your information You can choose to donate anonymously or check for your name to be released to United Way or any other nonprofit agency to which you choose to give. Click next Enter your pledge and payment information Under Designation Choices please chose the following option: I would like to designate some or all of my gift to a local United Way Community Services Fund or nonprofit agency. Click next and then Search for Agency At the bottom of the page enter OAR’s code 8078 under agency code Click search Once you see Offender Aid and Restoration (8078) click the option add this agency to your designation choices Enter 100% so that all of your donation comes to OAR Click next Confirm that your designation is listed as Offender Aid and Restoration (8078) Process your request!

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Via Combined Federal Campaign (CFC): Donations may be made through CFC in two ways: Designate Offender Aid and Restoration (CFC Code: 26226) through your employer during your annual campaign Donate online to Offender Aid and Restoration (CFC Code: 26226) by clicking here Donate through Combine Federal Campaign (CFC)

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Donate Your Vehicle

Step 1. Notify OAR before donating the vehicle: please provide your name and address, the make, model and year of the vehicle, and your telephone or email address.

Step 2. Donate your vehicle to Goodwill.

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Sponsor a Program

If you are interested in sponsoring a major community program with tangible results and demonstrative outcomes, please consider Offender Aid and Restoration. At OAR, you are invited to visit the programs you help support, meet the dedicated professionals providing services, and observe first hand how your financial contributions are making a difference in the lives of our clients - men, women and families at risk. If you believe in the principles of restorative justice, and wish to promote the realization of these goals in your community, please consider sponsoring an OAR program:

	Community Service Program
	Reentry Services
	Life Learning and Education programs for incarcerated individuals
	Employment Counseling services

All donations are tax deductible and go directly to programs that benefit our clients. Contact the executive director to discuss sponsoring a program or to make an appointment. Email garnall@OARonline.org, or call 703.228.7437.

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Educational Materials

Contribute new or used educational materials, self-help books, meditation books, dictionaries and other resource texts or videos for use in OAR programs for incarcerated individuals. Spanish language editions are especially needed.

Please contact us to discuss your contribution. Email garnall@OARonline.org or call us at 703.228.7030.

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Volunteer Contributions

Contribute your time and effort to OAR programs for incarcerated individuals in local detention facilities and ex-offenders. You need not have special talents or educational achievements to serve. Become a mentor or tutor, teach a life skills class, be a guest speaker. For the experience of a lifetime, join the OAR volunteer corps.

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Support the Catherine P. Schnittker Educational Scholarship Fund

The Catherine P. Schnittker OAR Educational Scholarship Fund is a unique scholarship program that provides grant money to eligible individuals who are ex-offenders and pursuing courses or training programs to enhance their employability and open career opportunities. Contact donations@OARonline.org or call 703.228.7437.

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Support Project Christmas Angel

This annual program provides holiday gifts to the children of incarcerated parents. In partnership with local and national organizations, area churches and universities, schools, businesses and concerned citizens, each year approximately 1500 gifts are collected, wrapped and mailed to children in Arlington, Alexandria and Falls Church as well as many other states and cities. In 2008, OAR was able to provide 486 children with gifts. We collect Postage donations through the year. Contact ejones@OARonline.org or call 703-228-7441.

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Contact Offender Aid and Restoration

	Online at donations@OARonline.org
	Telephone the executive director to discuss your gift: 703.228.7437.

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