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General Donations

These are unsolicited gifts made as donors deem appropriate. Donations can be made online or you may print and fill out our donation form and submit via the mail.

Annual Fund 

Each year, we invite you to invest in our work of education, health care, social work, and pastoral ministry with your support of the annual fund.

Every gift to the Annual Fund benefits those we serve in a direct and powerful way. We are grateful for all gifts and pray that our work through our various ministries and the retirement needs of our Sisters at the Motherhouse continues to be worthy of your annual support.

Memorial / Tribute Gifts

Pay tribute to the special people in your life with a gift to the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Rochester. Your gift helps all our Sisters, active and retired; to extend God's presence to the countless persons we pray for and meet each day:

The program includes gifts given in memory of a deceased person, or a tribute gift to honor someone on special occasions such as:

• Birthdays

• Graduations

• Weddings & Anniversaries

• Get well wishes

• Holidays

You can also pay a meaningful tribute to a Sister who is celebrating a Jubilee, was your favorite teacher or influenced your life in some other way.

Those honored or memorialized are remembered by the Sisters in their daily prayers.

We send a card acknowledging the tribute or the memorial gift to the person, family, or Sister being honored or remembered. The amount of your gift will not be disclosed. A memorial or tribute gift can be made through the secure online giving link at the top of this page.

Honor the Past, Build our Future

Planned gifts provide resources that will touch the lives of those who come after us and continue the wonderful work of our sisters and associates into the future. You can invest in our future mission in several ways. Learn more at our Planned Giving page.

Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)

A Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) is a tax-efficient way for individuals aged 70½ or older to donate money directly from their Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to a qualified charity. QCDs allow individuals to meet their required minimum distributions (RMDs) while benefiting a charitable cause. The donation must come from a Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, or certain other retirement accounts. The donation is made directly from the IRA to the charity, not to the individual.

Gifts of Stock and Appreciated Assets

A gift of stock and appreciated assets allows you to take advantage of appreciated securities without incurring capital gains tax. With this plan you transfer appreciated stocks, bonds, or mutual fund shares you have owned for more than one year to The Sisters of Saint Joseph. We sell your securities and use the proceeds for our ministries and for the retirement needs of our Sisters.

The benefits are that you receive an immediate income tax deduction for the fair market value of the securities on the date of transfer, no matter what you originally paid for them. You pay no capital gains tax on the transfer when the stock is sold, and giving appreciated stock could be more beneficial than giving cash.