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When you give to Ferry Beach, you help us sustain and support the maintenance of our beautiful historic campus, growth of conferences and the over all development of the organization. You also join a caring community of people who are intentionally contributing to changing the world. As a 501(c)3 member organization, Ferry Beach relies on its members and donations for support. We hope you will consider a tax-deductible contribution. Thank you!
The CARES act creates a new above-the-line deduction for total charitable contributions up to $300. For those who use the standard deduction, you may now claim up to $300 additional on charitable gifts. For those who itizes deductions, the law lifts the cap on annual contributions from 60% of adjusted gross income to 100% |
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One-Time Giving
Sustaining Donations
Quillen Shinn Society
Endowment Fund
The Beach Keeper Program
Scholarships
Capital Projects
Memorial Garden
One-Time Giving
Show your love and make a donation to Ferry Beach! As a 501 (c)3 organization, we rely on members of the Ferry Beach community for their financial support so that we may continue to offer rich and exciting conferences and programming, provide safe and beautiful surroundings, and ensure the future of Ferry Beach for generations to come. Please give today and thank you for your support!
If you would like to provide year-round support to Ferry Beach, please consider becoming a Sustaining Donor. We greatly appreciate your generosity!
If you would like to provide year-round support to Ferry Beach, please consider becoming a Sustaining Donor. We greatly appreciate your generosity!
Sustaining Donations
Over the past several years Ferry Beach has increased its revenue by over 50% while controlling expenses. We’re growing and busier than ever. Our members are energized and a core group of our donors are generously giving so that we can keep up with years of deferred maintenance and debt. This enthusiastic group of members is excited to include more people! We hope you will join us!
As you know, Ferry Beach is so much more than just 32 acres and 19 buildings on the beach in beautiful southern Maine. Ferry Beach is the thousands of people who build the community anew each week, enjoy our unique educational and personal growth opportunities and renew their spirit.
We’re barely in the black and we have a long list of building and capital needs. Increased annual giving has funded significant improvements in our conferences and campus facilities over the past few years. Sustaining donors are the backbone of our recovery. They commit to provide a monthly gift to Ferry Beach. Won’t you consider joining us?
Sustaining Donors appreciate the value, history and beauty of this place. The incredibly loving community of Ferry Beach has touched them deeply. Sustaining donors invest in Ferry Beach for future generations. They provide a tax deductible; ongoing annual donation paid either monthly ($15 minimum), annually or quarterly ($50 minimum) through credit card charge or check. Pleas join the community of Sustaining Donors at Ferry Beach today!
As you know, Ferry Beach is so much more than just 32 acres and 19 buildings on the beach in beautiful southern Maine. Ferry Beach is the thousands of people who build the community anew each week, enjoy our unique educational and personal growth opportunities and renew their spirit.
We’re barely in the black and we have a long list of building and capital needs. Increased annual giving has funded significant improvements in our conferences and campus facilities over the past few years. Sustaining donors are the backbone of our recovery. They commit to provide a monthly gift to Ferry Beach. Won’t you consider joining us?
Sustaining Donors appreciate the value, history and beauty of this place. The incredibly loving community of Ferry Beach has touched them deeply. Sustaining donors invest in Ferry Beach for future generations. They provide a tax deductible; ongoing annual donation paid either monthly ($15 minimum), annually or quarterly ($50 minimum) through credit card charge or check. Pleas join the community of Sustaining Donors at Ferry Beach today!
Quillen Shinn Society
Over the years, many of our members and friends have provided a legacy of hope in their wills or estate plans for the future of Ferry Beach. Unfortunately, we often don't learn of our member's bequest until they have passed away. We would like to thank and recognize you now, and encourage others who love Ferry Beach to make a similar lasting and long-term commitment.
Ferry Beach's "Quillen Shinn Society" is our way of doing that. As a member, you will lead the way for others, as you have all along, in keeping the future bright for all of us at Ferry Beach.
How will my bequest help Ferry Beach?
When you give a gift through your will or estate plan, you help endow the future of Ferry Beach. Your gift, invested in the endowment, will help ensure the financial stability of Ferry Beach and produce a perpetual stream of income that may be used for programs, scholarships, grounds, and facility maintenance.
If you wish, you may direct where and how your gift will be used, or you may make an unrestricted gift that would permit the Board of Directors to apply the gift where it is most needed.
Let us know if you would like information on estate and charitable gift planning, need help wording your gift in your will, or would like more information about the Quillen Shinn Society.
Ferry Beach's "Quillen Shinn Society" is our way of doing that. As a member, you will lead the way for others, as you have all along, in keeping the future bright for all of us at Ferry Beach.
How will my bequest help Ferry Beach?
When you give a gift through your will or estate plan, you help endow the future of Ferry Beach. Your gift, invested in the endowment, will help ensure the financial stability of Ferry Beach and produce a perpetual stream of income that may be used for programs, scholarships, grounds, and facility maintenance.
If you wish, you may direct where and how your gift will be used, or you may make an unrestricted gift that would permit the Board of Directors to apply the gift where it is most needed.
Let us know if you would like information on estate and charitable gift planning, need help wording your gift in your will, or would like more information about the Quillen Shinn Society.
Endowment Fund
Our Endowment Fund has been set aside by the members of Ferry Beach to assure that we will have funds to sustain us in hard financial times, as well as provide an emergency fund for maintenance of Beach buildings. Only 5% of the corpus of this fund can be used annually.
There are several ways you can contribute to the endowment. You can:
There are several ways you can contribute to the endowment. You can:
- Make a donation of any amount and designate it to the Endowment Fund;
- Become a Sustaining Donor and designate the Endowment Fund as the recipient of your ongoing gift;
- Join the Quillen Shinn Society by putting us in your will or designating stock or bonds which would be given to the endowment at the time of your death.
The Beach Keeper Program
Do you love Ferry Beach? Would you be willing to invest your time, talent and treasure to help sustain Ferry Beach?
Enjoy yourself by giving back to a place that gives so much to each of us!
Ferry Beach Keepers:
What are our needs?
Benefits of Being a Ferry Beach Keeper:
(No exchange of lodging, food, or conference fees.)
Enjoy yourself by giving back to a place that gives so much to each of us!
Ferry Beach Keepers:
- complete an application form and an assessment form (3 Forms are on the bottom of this page).
- take 2 hours of initial training about Ferry Beach (history, legacy, mission, who we are, where are we going).
- choose a "specialty" and learn additional skills either on the job or in an additional workshop.
- give 12 hours of service annually either at the beach or remotely by doing Ferry Beach Keeper work.
- are members of Ferry Beach and give $180 or more annually, either as sustaining donors at $15 per month, or as a one-time gift (Ages 14-18 can be Ferry Beach Keepers without being a sustaining donor)
What are our needs?
- Transplanting dune grass to repair damage from intense winter storms and astronomical high tides.
- Painting, cleaning, repairing, gardening, etc.
- Working in the store in the summer or volunteering for housekeeping.
- Volunteering to help coordinate a conference, share a skill or talent, offer a workshop, etc.
Benefits of Being a Ferry Beach Keeper:
- Represent a caring community of people who love Ferry Beach so much that they are willing to invest their time, talent, and treasure.
- Learn new skills–in marketing, repair, public speaking, and more.
- Public Recognition at the Ferry Beach Events and the Annual Meeting as Ferry Beach Keepers.
- The satisfaction of knowing that you contributed to the sustainability of Ferry Beach. Thank you!
(No exchange of lodging, food, or conference fees.)
Scholarships
Give the Gift of Ferry Beach
Gift Cards
Gift cards are available in the denomination of your choice. Gift cards are good for two years and may be used for conferences, vacations, and Ferry Beach merchandise.
To purchase a gift card for someone special in your life, give us a call at (207) 282-4489 or click here. We will need your name, the recipient's name, a credit card, the amount you would like to gift, and where you would like to gift certificate mailed. (Please note that we do put the giver's name on the gift card. Inform us when you order if you would like to remain anonymous.)
Scholarships
Donations may be made to specific Ferry Beach conferences. When you give the gift of a scholarship, you help guests and community members attend a conference who otherwise may not be able to. When giving online, please note in the comments section what conference you want to support.
If you would like to give the gift of Ferry Beach to a young person, consider giving to Ferry Beach's Youth Scholarship Fund. A donation of any amount helps us provide a Ferry Beach experience to a child. Our goal is to help as many families as possible who otherwise wouldn't be able to send their child to camp. Your help makes that possible! When giving online, please indicate that you want to support the Youth Scholarship Fund. You can also mail your donation check earmarked "Youth" to 5 Morris Ave., Saco, ME 04072, or call 207.282.4489 and pay by credit card over the phone.
All gifts are tax-deductible. Thank you for your support!
Gift Cards
Gift cards are available in the denomination of your choice. Gift cards are good for two years and may be used for conferences, vacations, and Ferry Beach merchandise.
To purchase a gift card for someone special in your life, give us a call at (207) 282-4489 or click here. We will need your name, the recipient's name, a credit card, the amount you would like to gift, and where you would like to gift certificate mailed. (Please note that we do put the giver's name on the gift card. Inform us when you order if you would like to remain anonymous.)
Scholarships
Donations may be made to specific Ferry Beach conferences. When you give the gift of a scholarship, you help guests and community members attend a conference who otherwise may not be able to. When giving online, please note in the comments section what conference you want to support.
If you would like to give the gift of Ferry Beach to a young person, consider giving to Ferry Beach's Youth Scholarship Fund. A donation of any amount helps us provide a Ferry Beach experience to a child. Our goal is to help as many families as possible who otherwise wouldn't be able to send their child to camp. Your help makes that possible! When giving online, please indicate that you want to support the Youth Scholarship Fund. You can also mail your donation check earmarked "Youth" to 5 Morris Ave., Saco, ME 04072, or call 207.282.4489 and pay by credit card over the phone.
All gifts are tax-deductible. Thank you for your support!
Capital Projects
Support Ferry Beach in our mission to update, maintain and modernize our facilities. In the recent past, your generous donations have helped us create the Cross Cottage, install new roofing on Quillen and Rowland Hall, create our new Dining Center in the middle of our campus, and fund our new ADA Boardwalk at the end of Morris Ave.
Our current Capital Projects are:
Our current Capital Projects are:
- the renovation and modernization of the GAYLA theatre. To learn more and donate towards this project, click here.
- creating a more accessible campus. To learn more, click here.
Memorial Garden
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Celebrate your family's love for the Beach or honor the memory of a loved one with a lasting gift to Ferry Beach. The Memorial Garden is located adjacent to the outdoor Eleanor B. Forbes Chapel in the Grove. This beautiful space is carefully maintained and conducive to meditation and quiet contemplation. It is a place to honor someone in your life. Please email us at info@ferrybeach.org or call (207) 282-4489 to purchase a paving stone or granite bench for yourself or in memory of a loved one.
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Engraved paving stones line the pathways of the Memorial Garden. Granite Paving Stone $500
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Vertical granite plaque that is blank and you may add a loved ones name for $2500.
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Granite benches (as above) are also available. Granite Bench $5,000
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Payment in full is required before engraving begins. We will contact you with a proof to ensure spelling and layout is correct.