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Designating Raphael House as a Beneficiary

A beneficiary designation to Raphael House of Portland is an easy and significant way to help us create a community free of violence. After your lifetime, any assets you designate will transfer directly to Raphael House without going through probate.

Beneficiary designations can be made for:

• Life insurance policies
• Retirement plans, such as an IRA, 401(k), 403(b), etc.
• Bank and brokerage accounts, and other types of deposit and investment accounts (if allowed by state law and offered by your financial institution – please check with your estate planning attorney or other representation)

Designating Raphael House as a beneficiary requires that you contact your insurance company, employer, or the company that manages your retirement plan, request a beneficiary designation form, complete it, and return it. You may designate Raphael House as a primary or secondary beneficiary of all or just a percentage of your policy, plan, or account.

 

Naming Raphael House of Portland in Your Will or Living Trust

Making a charitable bequest to Raphael House of Portland in your will or living trust is an incredibly valuable way to show your support of creating and sustaining a community free from violence.

There are various ways you can make a gift to Raphael House of Portland through your will or trust:

• You can specify that Raphael House of Portland receive a specific sum of money, a percentage of your estate or a specific asset, such as stocks, bonds, real estate or personal property.
• You can also designate that your gift be used for either general operating funds or for a specific program of the organization, such as our Youth Program or Transitional Housing for survivors and their families.

We are pleased to offer sample language for use when you and your attorney are drafting your will:

Unrestricted Bequest:

I give [specific sum of money] [the remainder of my estate] to Raphael House of Portland an Oregon nonprofit corporation (#93-0710963) to be used for its general purposes.

Restricted Bequest:       

I give [specific sum of money] [the remainder of my estate] to Raphael House of Portland an Oregon nonprofit corporation (#93-0710963) to be used for [insert purpose or program for which the gift is to be used]. If, in the future, the Raphael House of Portland Board of Directors determines that there is no longer a need for funds as specified herein or that the specified use no longer meets the intended purpose, then the Board of Directors may, at its discretion, use the gift to fulfill its charitable objectives as they may determine in their sole discretion keeping in mind my original purpose for this bequest.

Advocacy Center

The Advocacy Center is a new addition to our services, designed to allow us to maintain and build our relationships with program participants who are not living in our shelter. During their stay at Raphael House, women work with our advocates to create a set of individualized goals designed to help them on their journey to permanent housing, employment and self sufficiency. In the Advocacy Center, these women can continue working with advocates as they work towards meeting goals necessary to stabilize and grow in their new homes. In addition, families served by our Transitional Housing Program and Response Advocacy Programs can access a wide variety of services and resources inside the Advocacy Center.

In the Advocacy Center, we provide space for our program participants to participate in support groups and other activities such as youth programming, self care classes and meetings with community partners. Participants can access computer and phone workstations, staff support and advocacy, and an emergency food pantry and clothing closet. In addition, the Advocacy Center is designed to empower women to initiate and lead their own programs, and to receive mentoring if they’re interested in learning to lead their own support groups.

Current Advocacy Center programs include:
Survivors Support Groups
Living Yoga (for Teens & Adults)
Job Possible - job search assistance and employment readiness
Money Matters - free financial planning with a professional
Youth Play & Expressions Groups (supervised youth activities are offered during all adult groups)

Coming soon: 
Free Counseling Sessions
Computer Classes
Art Group

For more information on the Advocacy Center, please contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at (503) 222-6507 x309.

Safe Haven Circle Members

Affinity Property Management	Alsea Village Properties
American Family Insurance	American InterContinental University Online
Ameriprise Financial	Morris and Carolyn Arntson
Bank of America Charitable Foundation	Bank of the Cascades
Begonia Charitable Foundation	Greg and Tracie Bennink
Cordell and Maja Berge	John and Kristin Bradley
Norman Bradley	Sharon L. Brown and Peter Gretz
Bullard, Smith, Jernstedt and Wilson	CIBC World Markets
Mike and Paula Clancy	Compass Commercial
Compassion Vending, LLC	Vic and Rae Ann Coombes
David Douglas High School	Morgan and Lisa Delaney
James Dodson	Greg and Donna Dufault
Jessica Elkan and Jaime Beinin	Employee’s Community Fund of Boeing Portland
Employer’s Overload	John and Jane Emrick
Entercom Radio	Enterprise Rent-A-Car
eROI	William and Karen Froman
Glencoe High School	Go Girl Real Estate
Gracie’s Restaurant	Gabi Groshong
Dave and Paula Harkin	Hart Family/Orepac Foundation
High Hopes Charities	Homestone Mortgage
Hotel deLuxe	Scott and Juliana Howard
Shawn and Catarina Hunter	IFL Wolfpack
IFL Wolfpack	Judy Ilg
Mary Karter	Lady Golf Classics
Lauren Moilien Johnson Memorial	Lincoln High School
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund	William and Gail McCormick
McDonald Jacobs, P.C.	James Mendenhall
Regina Mockmore	New Seasons Market
Northwest Christian Community Foundation	Northwest Health Foundation
Northwest Natural Gas Company	One With Heart, Inc.
Christopher O’Neill, Hasson Realty	Oregon Community Foundation
Oregon Duck Store	Oregon Jewish Community Foundation
Pacific 1 Properties	Parkrose High School
Portland Trail Blazers	Portland Women’s Foundation
Robert and Teresa Prall	Sandy Pressley
Providence Health System	Steve and Corie Rice
Patrick and Patricia Richardson	Rose City Mortgage
RunWithPaula Events, Inc.	Cindy Sehorn
Servetus	Sierra Capital Trust
Soroptimist International of Portland	Soroptimist International of Gresham
Stacey and Joe Squires	Squires Electric
Paul and Cindy Stabel	StanCorp Financial Group, Inc.
Starbucks Make Your Mark Program	Taste Network, Inc.
Marcia and John Stilwell	Bruce Strade
Kathy Strade	Eric Stromquist
Paul Sybor	James and Nicole Titus
Tompkins Benefit Group	Tualatin High School
Vera L. Smith Charitable Foundation	Vitality Home Realty
Watermark Financial	Wilken and Company
Bill and Poppy Wyatt	Timothy and Kate Yarbrough

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Safe Numbers

Safety Alert:  If you are in crisis, please be aware that your internet use can be monitored.  If there is any chance that your abuser has access to your computer, we recommend accessing resources by using a safer (public) computer or calling one of the numbers listed here.

Safe Numbers

Raphael House of Portland Crisis Line:  503-222-6222
24-hour peer counseling, resource referral and information on domestic violence.

Portland Women’s Crisis Line:  503-235-5333
24-hour resources and support for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

National Domestic Violence Hotline:  1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or TTY 1-800-787-3224

Privacy

Raphael House of Portland respects the privacy of our visitors and does not collect any personal information. We do not attempt to track individuals or link to any other databases with the purpose of identifying individual website users. We do not track IP addresses or deposit “cookies” in an attempt to gain information about website users.

When visiting links to other sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies and statements of each site you visit.

Any questions or comments regarding the Raphael House Privacy Policy should be directed to:
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Communications Manager, (503) 222-6507.