Giving

Ensuring a Better Tomorrow

Your support will ensure that the vision to live in a community where no one suffers the distress of food insecurity will continue into the future. With your gift, Community Garden Kitchen can continue to serve healthy meals to all of God’s people with dignity, compassion, love, and respect.

Ways You May Give To Support This Mission

We are planning for a successful ongoing future through our giving programs. Please prayerfully consider one of the giving options.  Gifts may be given in remembrance of someone through a gift of cash, stock, a bequest, insurance, or a life income gift.

Check Presentation

Naming Opportunities

  • Name the Building: $1,000,000
  • Dining Room: $250,000
  • Kitchen: $100,000 – MANNER POLYMERS
  • Mural Wall: $100,000 – EPISCOPAL FOUNDATION OF DALLAS
  • Garden: $50,000 – GLOBE LIFE

Community Garden Kitchen Honors Generous Contributors Through Membership in Sharing Our Table:

Sharing Our Table Program:

  • The Dinner Table: $25,000 per year for 5 years
  • Kitchen Cabinet: $10,000 per year for 5 years
  • Kitchen Table: $5,000 per year for 5 years
  • Kitchen Counter: $1,000 per year for 5 years

Sharing Our Table partners are a group of individuals, organizations, foundations, churches and businesses whose ongoing contributions demonstrate their commitment to eliminating hunger in our city. Their continuing generosity and support ensures that Community Garden Kitchen will be able to serve delicious, healthy meals to people in need in McKinney, now and in the future.

Memorials and Honorariums

A gift in memory or in honor of a special person in your life may be made to Community Garden Kitchen.

Please consult your tax or legal advisors to assist you in this method of giving.

Appreciated Securities

Giving a gift of appreciated securities, such as stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, may allow you a deduction for the current market value on the date of the gift and possibly avoid capital gains tax.

Real Estate

Gifts of real estate will allow you to receive the maximum tax deduction allowed by law, bypass capital gains tax, provide you an opportunity to establish a gift that provides an income for life, and make a significant donation.

Life Insurance

You can gift our organization by designating Community Garden Kitchen as beneficiary of your policy. You may also choose to transfer the ownership of the cash value of a life insurance policy.

Irrevocable Bequests (Wills & Trusts)

An irrevocable bequest provision in your will or trust will allow you to make a major gift to our program without reducing your current income.

Charitable Gift Annuities

A charitable gift annuity can provide payments to you for life and then support Community Garden Kitchen. Deferred gift annuities allow the option to make the gift today and receive the annuity later in life.

Charitable Remainder Trusts

These gifts allow you to make a substantial gift and receive income from the trust.