Donate through the Mail
Please send your check, cash, money order, or credit card number to People’s City Mission, Attn: Pam Hinz, P. O. Box 80636, Lincoln NE, 68501.

Donate Online
It's easy to help change the lives of the homeless in our community by providing hot meals, lodging and more at the People's City Mission.

Donate now through the Network for Good.

Donate now through PayPal.

Donate now with a credit card.

Monthly, Bi-monthly or Annual Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
Set up automatic deductions from your account by filling out the attached form and faxing or mailing to People’s City Mission, Attn: Pam Hinz, P.O. Box 80636, Lincoln NE, 68501.

Click here to view the EFT form

Honor/Memorial Gifts
Make a donation in honor or in memory of a loved one. When mailing or submitting your donation, please donate that it is in honor or memory of a particular person. If you wish us to send them a notification of the donation made in their name, please send us their name and mailing address.

United Way
United Way allows employees to designate their pledge to specific non-profits. Ask your employer for a Donor Choice Form and fill in all pertinent information about People’s City Mission.

Workplace Giving
Check with your employer. They may match your contributions to People’s City Mission.

Charitable Bequests
Charitable bequests are gifts made from your estate, after your death, as a result of provisions in your will. Bequests enable you to preserve assets during your life and make gifts only after you have adequately provided for loved ones and yourself.

Charitable bequests can provide for the contribution of a specific amount or a percentage of your residual estate, meaning what remains after all debts, taxes and specific bequests have been paid. Bequests can be outright or contingent, meaning only in the event that loved ones do not survive you.

Charitable bequests are revocable until death; hence there are no income tax benefits. Bequests do, however, qualify for an estate tax deduction if you have a taxable estate.

Language to include a gift to the People's City Mission in your will is:

Specific bequest of a dollar amount, shares of stock, parcel or property or other asset: I give, devise and bequeath to the People's City Mission in Lincoln, NE, the sum of $__________(or __________ shares of stock of ________Company, or specific property).

Residual bequest, meaning what remains after all debts, taxes and specific bequest have been paid: I give, devise and bequeath all (or ________%) of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, tangible and intangible, to People's City Mission in Lincoln, NE.

Contingent bequest, meaning a gift only in the event that designated loved ones do not survive you: I give, devise and bequeath the sum of $______ to ____(name)_______ provided he/she survives me. In the event he/she predeceases me, I direct that this sum be paid to the People's City Mission, in Lincoln, NE.

Your will should be drafted by a qualified estate planning attorney. Wills should be reviewed periodically to ensure they are current with respect to your personal wishes, circumstances and applicable laws.

Charitable Remainder Trusts
Many donors today are seeking ways to increase the annual income they receive from their securities and cash balances. Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRTs) provide the potential to increase annual cash flow from investment assets, while deferring capital gain taxes, generating a charitable income tax deduction, avoiding estate taxes and eliminating money management concerns.

Charitable Remainder Trusts involve the creation of a separate legal entity, the trust, which is funded by an irrevocable transfer of cash or certain other assets. The trustee of a CRT receives the gift assets, invests them, makes at least annual distributions to the income beneficiary(ies), files necessary reports and tax returns and, upon the death of the income beneficiaries, distributes any remaining trust assets to the charity or charities named in the trust document as remainder beneficiaries.

There are two main types of CRTs: annuity trusts, in which you establish the annual payment amount at the creation of the trust, with payments remaining fixed for the life of the trust; and unitrusts, in which you establish the payment percentage at the creation of the trust, with payments varying each year based on the value of the trusts assets each year on the annual valuation date, typically January 1.

CRTs can be funded with cash, appreciated securities or certain other assets. Since CRTs are tax-exempt, appreciated assets transferred to the trust can then be sold without creating an immediately taxable capital gain. That means that 100 percent of the trust assets can be reinvested to generate income and appreciation. The donor defines the annual trust distribution amount (annuity trust) or percentage (unitrust) at the outset of the trust. Annual trust payments typically range from five to nine percent. The taxation of the trust payments to the income beneficiary depends on the character of the income earned by the trust (ordinary, capital gain, tax-free or return of capital).

In the year the trust is funded, the donor receives a charitable income tax deduction for a portion of the fair market value of the assets contributed to the trust. The deduction is not 100 percent of the value because the donor or other designated beneficiary will receive payments from the trust. The amount of the deduction varies with the number and ages of the income beneficiary(ies) as well as the trust payment rate and interest rates when the trust is funded.

Assets in a CRT are no longer part of your estate and avoid any estate taxes that may otherwise be due upon your death. Finally, CRTs eliminate your money management concerns since the trustee of the trust, selected by the donor, is responsible for managing the money.

Gifts and Services in-kind
Food can be donated to the Shelter at 110 Q Street or the Distribution Center on 21st and N Streets.

Clothing, wearable and not wearable, can be dropped off at the Distribution Center on 21st and N Streets.  Unusable clothing is recycled and the proceeds help fund PCM.

Gift Cards can be used to purchase needed items, thus helping reduce expenses at the shelter.

Professional Services

Personal Care Items, Bedding, and Other Household Items can be brought to the shelter at 110 Q Street.

Distribution Center Client Hours and Services
Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Distribution Center Donation Drop Off Times of Service
Monday through Saturday
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Donate a Car
Call our Financial Director at 402-475-1303 to donate a car. Your tax-deductible donation will provide transportation for a family in need.

People's City Mission Foundation
The People's City Mission Foundation was founded in 1989 to encourage our Mission friends to support our important work through legacies, life insurance and other planned giving instruments. The most common ways of giving tax-deductible gifts to the People's City Mission Foundation include:

Building a "foundation of compassion" is what People's City Mission is all about. Your support of the Foundation will ensure that the Mission is able to continue to help homeless single moms and their children, single men, and the sick and forgotten, both now and for many years in the future.

Friends of the Mission are encouraged to contact our Major Donor Department for more information regarding our planned giving programs. We are a 501{C}{3} tax exempt corporation and our IRS number is 47-0723542.