GIFTS AND DONATIONS

Contributions to The Friends Home in Kennett are fully tax-deductible and provide essential dollars for:

  • our resident scholarship fund, which helps to keep our entrance fees and rates affordable for older adults with moderate incomes
  • building renovations, such as completion of adding bathrooms to resident rooms, kitchen improvements, and carpeting
  • equipment, furnishings, and special programs such as:
    • $50 will purchase some new large-print books for the library
    • $100 provides an evening of special musical entertainment
    • $150 will purchase a rocking chair for our famous front porch
    • $300 will purchase a new dining room chair
    • $500 will fund materials to build a raised garden bed
    • $1,000 will purchase a new electric bed for Linden Hall

How you can help

  • Make a donation of cash, stock, or other securities

  • Make an in-kind donation, such as:

    • videos and DVDs, especially musicals, documentaries, and comedies
    • small bags of snacks or candy bars
    • unused greeting cards
    • art and craft supplies
    • seasonal plants for our flower beds and resident gardens
    • cut flowers for use in dining rooms, sitting rooms and corridors
    • rocking chairs
    • books and magazine subscriptions for the library

Please contact Brenda Riehl, Director of Development, prior to making an in-kind donation. Brenda can be reached at 610-444-2577 ext. 219, or via e-mail at briehl@kennett.net.