Crisis Hotline Sustainability Campaign Donation Form

Keep Our Crisis Hotline Running 24/7 – Every Call Can Save a Life

When someone is in crisis, every second counts. Our 24/7 crisis hotline provides immediate, compassionate support to people facing mental health emergencies, domestic violence situations, substance abuse challenges, and suicidal thoughts. But keeping our phone lines staffed around the clock requires sustainable funding—and that's where you come in.

The True Cost of Life-Saving Support

Transparency matters. We want you to understand exactly where your donation goes and the real impact it makes. Every call to our crisis hotline costs approximately $45 to handle—this includes trained counselor time, ongoing mental health training, supervision, technology infrastructure, and 24/7 operational support. When you donate, you're directly funding these critical interventions.

Your donation breakdown:

• $45 funds one complete crisis intervention call (average 30-45 minutes)
• $225 supports five people through their darkest moments
• $450 covers ten life-saving conversations
• $1,350 keeps our lines open for an entire day (averaging 30 calls)

Why 24/7 Availability Saves Lives

Crisis doesn't keep business hours. Our data shows that 62% of calls come in outside traditional 9-to-5 hours—late at night when someone can't sleep, early morning before facing another difficult day, or weekends when other support services are closed. Your donation ensures that whenever someone reaches out for help, a trained crisis counselor answers.

Allocate Your Impact with Our Emergency Response Fund

We've structured our fundraising campaign to give you choice in how your donation creates impact. Beyond funding individual crisis calls, you can direct a portion of your gift to our Emergency Response Fund—a reserve that allows us to:

• Scale up staffing during community emergencies or natural disasters
• Provide immediate crisis response when call volumes spike unexpectedly
• Offer emergency financial assistance to callers in acute situations
• Expand services to underserved communities without delay

When you make your donation, you'll choose how much goes to general operations (keeping the phones staffed every day) versus the Emergency Response Fund (preparing us to meet unexpected surges in need).

The Difference You're Making

Last year, our crisis hotline answered over 18,000 calls. We helped people safety plan during suicidal episodes, connected domestic violence survivors with emergency shelter, talked people through panic attacks, and provided a listening ear to those who felt completely alone. Our follow-up surveys show that 89% of callers felt better after speaking with our team, and 76% reported reduced thoughts of self-harm.

But we can only continue this work with sustainable funding from people like you.

Streamlined Giving with Paperform

We've built this donation form on Paperform because it provides a secure, transparent, and user-friendly giving experience. Whether you're making a one-time gift or setting up a monthly sustaining donation, the entire process takes just minutes. Paperform's SOC 2 Type II compliance ensures your payment information stays secure, while the platform's calculation and payment features let you see exactly how your contribution breaks down in real time.

For recurring donors, you can easily manage your monthly giving through Paperform's subscription features—update payment details, adjust amounts, or pause donations if needed, all without contacting our office.

If your organization wants to make a corporate donation or sponsorship commitment, you can even use Papersign to review and digitally sign a giving agreement, keeping everything streamlined and paperless.

Automate Your Giving Journey with Stepper

Behind the scenes, we use Stepper to ensure every donation triggers the right acknowledgment. When you give, our Stepper workflow automatically sends you a tax receipt, adds you to our donor newsletter (if you opt in), and alerts our development team about major gifts that might benefit from a personal thank-you call. This automation means more of our resources go to crisis services, not administrative overhead.

Join Our Circle of Sustainers

Monthly donors form the backbone of our crisis hotline sustainability. Recurring gifts—even as small as $20 per month—provide the predictable revenue we need to hire and train counselors, maintain our technology platform, and keep the lights on 24/7/365.

When you become a monthly sustainer, you'll receive quarterly impact reports showing exactly how many calls your cumulative giving has supported, stories from people whose lives were changed by our services (shared anonymously with permission), and invitations to exclusive donor appreciation events.

Every Call Matters

Behind every statistic is a real person—someone's daughter struggling with depression, a father facing job loss and desperation, a teenager being bullied and considering self-harm, a survivor escaping abuse. Your donation ensures that when they reach out for help, someone is there to answer.

Thank you for keeping our crisis hotline sustainable, accessible, and ready to save lives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Make your life-saving donation today.