Help Make the First Years Count

Your gift to the Lourie Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency, will help provide the vital resources necessary for ensuring that at-risk infants, young children and their families get a healthy emotional start in life. The Lourie Center is sincerely grateful for your support!

All contributions are tax deductible in accordance with federal law.

Gifts may be sent to:

Reginald S. Lourie Center
12301 Academy Way
Rockville, MD 20852
Attention: Development Office

Please contact Elizabeth Franzino, Director of Development, at 301-984-4444, extension 315, if you have any questions, or need assistance.

Ways to Give

Grants
The Lourie Center is also grateful for grants from private foundations
and corporations. To see a listing of our recent grants. Click here

Annual Fund Drive
The Annual Fund Drive raises unrestricted funds to support the most pressing operating needs of the Center. You can give by check, credit card (VISA or MasterCard) or through gifts of stock.

Benefit Fundraisers
The Lourie Center's 25th Anniversary dinner was held on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. Click here for more details.

Past benefits have included buffet receptions at the French Ambassador's Residence, the British Ambassador's Residence, and the Hungarian, Italian, German, Finnish, Czech Republic and Austrian Embassies.

Corporate Matching Gift Program
Please check to see if your employer (or your spouse's) participates in a Matching Gift Program. If your employer offers this benefit, be sure to complete the necessary form in order to multiply your gift dollars.

United Way/Combined Federal Campaigns
Please choose to support the Center through the United Way/Combined Federal Campaigns (CFC):
United Way designation number is 8259.

CFC designation number is 26069.

Gifts to Honor or Memorialize

Please make sure to include the name of the individual you wish to memorialize or honor, and the name and address of the person who should receive an acknowledgement letter. An acknowledgement letter will be sent to the person(s) you designate, although the amount of your gift will not be disclosed. You will receive a separate acknowledgement for your own records. You can give by check, credit card (VISA or MasterCard) or through gifts of stock.

Bonus Points from Giant, Safeway and other merchants

Check off your to-do list today! Visit each website below and register your cards. Then, just shop as usual at your favorite stores, and a percentage of all your purchases will help the Lourie Center School provide excellent services to its students and families! Click here to download a one-page information sheet (pdf format)

Giant: Designate the Lourie Center School ID# 03394 for A+ Bonus Bucks
http://www.giantfood.com/aplus

Escrip: You can register your Safeway card, and also your debit & credit cards! Enter the Lourie Center School Group ID# 500022891
http://www.eScrip.com

Gifts in-kind

The Lourie Center is also very grateful for new or gently used toys and clothes. Please contact the Development Office for more information.

A copy of our current financial statement is available upon request by calling our office. Documents submitted to the State of Maryland under the Maryland Charitable Solicitations Act are available from the Secretary of State, State House, Annapolis, MD 21401, for the cost of copying and mailing.