Helping Life
The Florida K of C Charities Helping Life Fund works closely together with the Ultrasound Initiative program to ensure that much needed funds are distributed where most needed. The fund provides state-wide support to pregnant women, especially those experiencing unexpected pregnancies, and helps new mothers and their babies. Your donations help them---and the pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes that assist them.
For moms, the Helping Life Fund helps provide testing, choices counseling, medical clinic support, of course ultrasound viewings, financial assistance, ongoing maternity training, encouragement, support, and sometimes housing.
For pregnancy resource centers, the Helping Life Fund provides monies to acquire, train staff, maintain, and repair all office equipment including ultrasound machines, as well as to help pay for medical care, medical supplies, and financial and counseling resources for their clients, since they generously provide these services free of charge.
The need for such support is greater than ever. Even after the favorable Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs case three years ago, more than a million babies are still being tragically aborted every year, with 63% being aborted by using the chemical abortion pill. The pregnancy centers that the Helping Life Fund supports are often the first line of defense, of support, or of reassurance for a woman facing an unexpected pregnancy. They need and they deserve our help.
Many Councils are already extremely generous in holding diaper and baby supplies drives, and fundraisers that support their local-area pregnancy support centers. This is wonderful and life-affirming work, and must continue.
But the Helping Life Fund expands the reach of a local council’s efforts far beyond their local area, to those clinics state-wide who may not receive any local council support and where the needs are the greatest. And councils will, of course, receive Faith in Action-Life program credit for its donations to the Helping Life fund for pregnancy support centers, simply by noting its council number on the donation form and completing a Form 10784.
Donating is easy. Go to www.FloridaKofC.org, then “Donate”, then “Helping Life Fund” to make your one-time or your recurrent monthly donation. There are many wonderful and worthy charities out there, but Florida K of C Charities Inc should be at the top of all of our lists.
Finally, once per year all State Members will receive a supply of mailing labels asking to lift our voices in the celebration of life. Please be generous! Even a modest donation from the majority of our membership will allow us to provide much-need funds all across the state where needed most.
This support should be a part of the commitment of every Council and member of the Knights of Columbus to supporting a greater culture of life.
How to Donate
Make Checks Payable To:
Florida K of C Charities, Inc
Memo: Helping Life
Mail to:
Michael Lepore
3220 Spanish Moss Way
The Villages, FL 32163-0154
Donations online at https://donate.floridakofccharities.org/helping-life-fund or click the Donate Button at top of page.
Florida K of C Charities is a tax-exempt organization under IRS Code 501(c)(3).
Please consider just $10.00 a month to the Florida K of C Charities General Charities Fund and support the many Charitable Programs supported by the Knights of Columbus Florida K of C Charities, Inc. Dontations to the General Charities Fund may be made online at https://donate.floridakofccharities.org/give or click the Donate Button at top of page.
Even a small one-time donation helps us support the many charities backed by the Florida Knights of Columbus
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