Your support helps VISIONS do more

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." —Booker T. Washington

Donate to VISIONS, Inc.

VISIONS, Inc. is a public nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Therefore, donors may deduct contributions as provided in Section 170 of the IRS Code. Our Tax ID# is: 52-1378064. We are grateful for monetary donations in all amounts.

VISIONS, Inc. earned the 2023 Gold Seal of Transparency on GuideStar. Now our community members can find in-depth information about our goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress. We’re shining a spotlight on the difference we help make.

For your convenience, we now accept credit card donations via our secure Paypal (fees may apply).

 

​To make a donation by check, please include this form and make your check payable to: VISIONS, Inc.; memo: Donation; and mail to:

VISIONS Inc.
1452 Dorchester Ave., 4th Floor
Dorchester, MA 02122

Make you gift go further! Inquire if your employer offers a matching gift program for charitable giving. Employers may match your gift up to 100%. Send your employer’s matching gift form​ in with your gift, or if making donation via paypal, notify and email the form to office@visions-inc.org. If your company works with Benevity, VISIONS is a registered nonprofit with Benevity and they may be able to process your matching gift directly.

Stock or Mutual Funds Donation

Consider leaving VISIONS a lasting legacy. 

Planned giving support ensures that VISIONS remains a beacon for a more just and equitable world. By including a gift to VISIONS through your will or living trust, or through beneficiary designations in: 

  • retirement plans, 
  • charitable gift annuities, 
  • life insurance policies,
  • donor advised funds

…your contribution will honor your legacy and support the legacy of VISIONS’ mission, an organization you have come to know as doing important work. 

For more information, you can either contact your estate or financial planner or call Nikki Glass at VISIONS at 617-541-4108. 

Impact Fund (General Donation)

This journey of raising awareness, challenging injustice, and educating ourselves and others requires a dedicated team. An Impact Fund donation to support our operational expenses include rent, utilities, printing, postage, insurance, and other expenses that are constantly on the rise. A contribution to VISIONS’ operational expenses helps the staff keep the doors open and this important and necessary work alive.

Support our Legacy Youth Program

The Legacy Project is run out of Boston, MA and Fresno, CA with the potential to be replicated in other parts of the US, depending on funding and local interest. Legacy is financially supported by both individuals and private and corporate foundations.  Your donation would support  the students’ stipend, meals, field trip transportation, supplies, and per participant cost for our yearly community engagement event.
If you would like to donate directly to Ventura County Legacy Project, please note that in your donation or email office@visions-inc.org for assistance.

Scholarships for VISIONS Anti-Oppression Workshops

In this time of globalization and instability, it is vital that as many people as possible learn new skills of recognizing, understanding and appreciating differences. We are seeking funding to provide scholarships so that individuals can attend VISIONS’ workshops irrespective of their ability to pay.

Dr. Josephine “Jo” Bowens Lewis Memorial Scholarship

When inspirational psychotherapist and change agent Josephine Bowens Lewis departed the earth realm (July 9, 2014) VISIONS’ commitment to sustaining her legacy of love and transformation emerged from so many of our supporters! This scholarship fund will provide scholarships to participants in VISIONS PACE workshops which include an introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA). They will also provide scholarships to certified TA workshops that we hold regularly to build on this learning. Dr. Lewis was a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Certified Teaching and Supervisory Member of the International Transactional Analysis Association. Your donations will directly impact others’ journey in becoming agents of change.

Scholarship for a Community Nonprofit Intervention/Consultation

Many nonprofit groups urgently seek VISIONS’ services but cannot afford it. School systems, youth groups, police and fire departments, hospitals, social service agencies and faith based organizations all want the benefit that VISIONS could have on their diverse workforces, institutional policies and client services.

VISIONS Endowment Fund

The VISIONS endowment fund helps provide funding for VISIONS and its programs in perpetuity. There are many ways to make an endowment gift - an outright contribution, a multi-year pledge, or donations of stocks and mutual funds. For more information please email Nikki Glass.

VISIONS Film Project

Support VISIONS in making a film that documents our organization's founding 37 years ago, the stories of our founders and the vision and ideals behind our organization.