Keeping ready
supporting the work of the Christian Science Nurse
Beacon Haven donors sustain Christian Science nursing for everyone.
Providing access to Christian Science nursing for the current generation and the next is a promise kept by Christian Scientists for more than a century with gifts to train and support our staff of Christian Science nurses.
Donors pay for the cost of keeping care ready
For more than a century, gift support has provided for the cost of supporting our Christian Science nurses so that they remain ready to respond whenever a need may arise.
Patients pay for the cost of care
Through personal funds, Medicare and private insurance benefits, or benevolence support, patients pay for the care they receive.
Philanthropy is loving, ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; it lays the axe at the root of the tree that bringeth not forth good fruit; it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and insures success; it starts the wheels of right reason, revelation, justice, and mercy; it unselfs men and pushes on the ages.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany
Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 287:19–2)
For 100 years,
gifts have kept Christian Science
nursing care ready here in this community.
Every gift counts.
Volunteer support
Every year, volunteers provide hundreds of hours of service to help fulfill Beacon Haven’s mission to “to support proper care and an atmosphere expectant of healing through Christian Science nursing.”
Volunteer opportunities include, but are not limited to reading to patients, providing activities for patients, sharing music and assisting with yard work.
Whether you have an afternoon to share, or would like to commit to a regular role, please contact us to find out more at 651-379-0100.
Ways to make a gift today
A donation by check in any amount can be sent by mail to us at this address:
Beacon Haven
1200 Long Lake Road
New Brighton, MN 55112
We can accept credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express) directly at Beacon Haven, either in person or via telephone 651-379-0100.
Many employers offer employees a matching gift programs that effectively double or triples the employee’s gift to Beacon Haven. Typically, the employee obtains a company form from the human resources department and submits it to Beacon Haven with his or her contribution. Please check with your Human Resources department for more information.
Employees who work for a company that offers United Way giving through paycheck withholding may designate 100% of their gift given to Beacon Haven. Please check with your Human Resources department for more information.
When you donate stock or other securities to Beacon Haven, you receive the same income tax savings that you would if you wrote a check, but with the added benefit of eliminating an capital gains taxes associated with the stock, which can be as high as 20 percent.
To make your gift using appreciated stock or other securities, ask your banker or broker to use an electronic transfer via the Depository Trust Company (DTC) system to send your securities to Beacon Haven. Beacon Haven Transfer Information:
Bank: Ameriprise
DTC Participant Number: 0756
Please ask your broker or bank to include their name in the transmittal and ensure that the name of the donor is also included in the transmittal from the broker to Ameriprise to ensure proper crediting and acknowledgement of the gift.
Gifts from your Individual Retirement Account can be given to an eligible charitable organization, like Beacon Haven. Donors who are at least 70 and half years old may make a gift from an IRA account by using a qualified charitable distribution. This option counts toward distribution requirements (RMD).
Qualified charitable distributions (or QCD, also called an IRA charitable rollovers) bypass recognition for income tax of up to $111,000 per year from an IRA. A spouse can also make up to $111,000 QCD, if the couple files a joint income tax return.
To make a qualified charitable distribution from your IRA account, contact the IRA administrator that manages your account, or contact Beacon Haven for more information.