Eat at Brazi's, 201 Food Terminal Plaza, New Haven, Ct., as often as you can and especially during the month of April, 2010!

More Dining Options....
No matter where you live, Restaurant.com offers great discount coupons for some of your favorite restaurants. Buy them through the link below. print them out and go eat! Know that The Help Alliance will receive a contribution toward the ProTeen Center! Now, that's a deal!!

Looking for that perfect gift for a friend or co-worker? Buy them a gift card from Restaurant.com. Enter code "Heart" at the top of your shopping cart and get 80% off and a 15% FTD Florist discount NOW THROUGH VALENTINE'S DAY! Translated, that means that A $25 gift card only costs $3.00 now through Valentine's Day!!!!

Note: a gift certificate is something you can print yourself or have emailed to someone else. Click on the image above to order a gift certificate.

A Gift Card on the other hand is bought for someone you know and will be mailed to them by restaurant.com with the information you have provided. Use the link below to order a gift card. The steep discount and bonus is being offered now through 2/14 is for gift cards.

CLICK HERE FOR GIFT CARD--->Save on Restaurant.com Gift Cards starting at $15.00 for $25 cards use code HEART to save 80% off & get a $15 FTD® Reward thru 02/14/10!

Hungry, but don't feel like going out?
 Delivery.com provides fast, easy and convenient online food ordering from local restaurants and caterers across the nation, and for every first-time online order that comes from the link below, they will contribute $5.00 toward the ProTeen Center. Please remember us the next time you or someone in your place of business wants lunch or dinner delivered!  There 20 participating restaurants in the city of New Haven alone! Enter an address anywhere in the USA and find the participating restaurants near you!

Donate

We're raising approximately $750,000 for the renovation of the 9,000 SF warehouse that will become the ProTeen center. The realization of this dream will be contingent upon the generous and sacrificial gifts of many individuals. We are applying for grants and turning up every conceivable stone looking for resources. At the end of the day however, it will be the multitude of people who rise up with a demonstrated conviction that the kids of New Haven are worth a sacrifice who will ultimately make this happen. Can we count on you in a BIG way??

Donations are tax deductible. Looking for a year end write-off? Here's a great investment in the future of us all!

Please, Thank You......and Bless You!

Donation Options:

1. Please mail your checks payable to:

Greater New Haven Help Alliance, Inc.
95 Hamilton Street
New Haven, CT. 06511

In the notation section, please write: "Youth Center"

2. Donate by PayPal:

Valentine's Day is Around the Corner

Shop Vendors who will support the ProTeen Center

Amazon.com has just about anything you could ever want to buy someone....at great prices!  Every purchase that you make through our Amazon Store (and any Amazon page that you link to from our page) results in a significant contribution to the Pro-Teen Center! Make your online buying count in a big way this year! Here's the link to our store.
 

If you can't seem to get to the product you're looking for through the Amazon page, email us at info@helpnewhaven.org and we will try to help you locate it and send you a link that will give the GNHHA credit.

 USA Flowers. A Great array of floral arrangements.

The Perfume Emporium. Get her favorite for less.

Forgot to buy a card. Print one out trough American Greetings

Religious (notably Christian) Greeting Cards

Facebook Users 

A. Join our two causes
Keep abreast of new developments. While you're there, please make a donation through Facebook.

1. Our Youth Cause: Click Here

2. Our Poverty Cause: Click Here

Contribute Merchandise to Our Online "Yard Sale"

We are accepting saleable merchandise from your garages and attics to sell on Ebay. All of the net proceeds will go toward the Pro-Teen Center renovations.

Need us to pick up your merchandise?  Please email us at info@helpnewhaven.org with your contact information and a description of the items you are willing to donate. Thanks!!

Tax Write-off Note: (taken from www.investopedia.com). We will be happy to provide you with a statement for tax purposes, but please keep in mind the following guidelines.

1. Overestimating Donated Amounts

The IRS encourages individuals to donate things like clothes, food and even old automobiles to charities. It does this by offering a deduction in return for a donation. However, the problem with this system is that it is up to the taxpayer to determine the value of goods that are donated.

As a general rule, the IRS likes to see individuals value the items they donate at anywhere between 1% and 30% of the original purchase price (unless special circumstances exist). Unfortunately many, if not most, taxpayers either aren't aware of this, or simply choose to ignore this fact.

There are several other tips that the taxpayer can use to ensure that he or she is valuing donated goods at a "fair" price. Aside from the 30% and under rule mentioned above, consider having an appraiser write a letter. (In fact, for individual items valued at $5,000 or more, an appraisal is required.). Another benchmark the IRS uses that could come in handy is the willing-buyer-willing-seller test.

This means that taxpayers should value their goods at a point or price where a willing seller (who is under no duress) would be able to sell his property to a willing buyer (who also is under no duress to purchase the item). Using such a benchmark will keep you out of trouble and prevent you from placing an excessive value on your dad's old Frank Sinatra albums.

Recyclables

Bring the following Recyclables to us and we'll turn that pile of scrap into Blessed Kids! Now that's better than alchemy!

The list of good that we can get cash for includes:

Cell Phones, Laptop Computers, Ink Jet Printer Cartridges, Apple iPods & Other MP3 Players (Microsoft Zune, Creative & Sandisk), Digital Cameras, Digital Video Cameras, GPS Devices (Garmin, Mio, Magellan, TomTom), Radar Detectors (Escort, Beltronics, Cobra), Kindle & Sony Book Readers, Handheld Game Systems.

Don’t throw it out! Turn that junk

into Blessed Kids AND a Cleaner

 Environment!!!

Email us for details at info@helpnewhaven.org

Do you contribute to causes on your Job through United Way?

 Write in "New Haven Help Alliance" on
 your election form, and we'll be sure to
 receive your blessings. Thanks!
 

Got a Penny Jar Tucked away?

Hey, we're not proud...we want those too! We'll put all those coins to great use! We'd be delighted to come get them from you! Those little brown circular pieces (and their silver cousins) can really add up!

Email us for details at info@helpnewhaven.org

Donate Specific Equipment
If you would rather donate specific, new pieces of equipment rather than cash, here is the start of a list that will evolve over time:

-New Laptop and Desktop Computers

-Digital still and Video cameras

-Video and photography editing software

-Audio Mixing and Music Composition software

-Audio Equipment (mixers, speakers, microphones, etc.)

-Erasable Whiteboards

-Desks and chairs for classrooms and performance center

-Library Shelving

-Snack bar equipment

If interested in making any of these donations, please email info@helpnewhaven.org for the specs of each item.

Got Skills?

We all know that a great space for young people is only the beginning. We need people with a heart for young people who will be involved in the programming end of the Pro-Teen Center. If you have teachable skills, knowledge, etc., we would love to hear from you.

Do you have Trade Skills?  As part of the renovation, experienced, skilled craftspeople who are willing to donate their expertise will also be needed. We want this to be a community blessing and look for it to be a community project. All able hands on deck! Thank you!!! We're interested in any way we can hold the costs down!

Please contact our Executive Director, Richard Everett at  (203) 506-9708 or email us at info@helpnewhaven.org