Other Ways to Give

Matching Gifts
If your company has a matching gifts program, your gift to Open Hand could be doubled or even tripled. Some companies even provide matching gifts for volunteer hours. Please check with your employer’s Human Resources Department for specific information or to request a Matching Gifts Form. This is perhaps the simplest way to make your gift to go further!

Matching Gift and Volunteer Grant information provided by

Stock Transfers
Gifts of stock, especially long-term appreciated stock, provide benefits to Open Hand and to you. Open Hand can put your funds to work immediately, and you can gift appreciated assets (and usually avoid tax on the gain), receive the regular charitable income tax deduction if you itemize your taxes, and claim a tax deduction for the full fair market value (rather than the cost value) of your stock if you have owned the securities for more than one year.

Give Stock through Electronic Funds Transfer: Advise your broker to transfer stock to Open Hand Atlanta, Inc. using the account information listed below.

Open Hand federal tax identification number: 58-1816778
Account #29S-03428
DTC: 8862

Merrill Lynch
Representative: Sandra Meyer
Account name: Open Hand Atlanta, Inc.
Phone: 770-360-6053

Give through the direct delivery of Stock: Deliver actual stock certificates and stock powers to Open Hand. Please consult your tax advisor to make sure that you maximize your gift and your deduction in accordance with the current tax laws.

If you would, please also advise Katie MacKenzie, Director of Development, regarding the specifics of your stock transfer or intended delivery of stock. She can be reached at 404-419-3302 or via email at kmackenzie@openhandatlanta.org.

Amazon Wish List
If you or your company or church would prefer to give the items that we use on a day-to-day basis, Amazon has made it much easier to make a direct impact with a gift or gifts you can visualize. We’ve curated a short list of items we need most, and we try to keep it as updated as possible. To see if this is the way you’d like to give, take a look at Open Hand Atlanta’s Amazon Wish List.