When a Check Isn’t the Only Way to Give
Four charitable-giving pathways for individuals, families, and businesses.
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This article was provided by A Greater Way to Give as part of its partnership with Christian Stewardship Network. It is intended for general educational purposes and does not constitute legal, tax, or financial advice. CSN encourages readers to consult qualified professional advisors before making charitable-giving decisions.
Generosity is not one-size-fits-all. A cash gift may be the right answer in one situation, while an appreciated asset, an employee-assistance fund, or a long-term charitable vehicle may be better in another.
A Greater Way to Give is a family of organizations designed to help donors, businesses, and families navigate those different needs. Here is a practical overview of the four ways they serve givers and recipients.
Four Problems, Four Solutions
Helping Hands Ministries
The problem: Someone is facing a real, immediate hardship — a medical bill, a financial gap, a crisis that can't wait.
The solution: Donors can support specific projects that help individuals or families in need. Donors may also recommend someone who may qualify for assistance. Our team reviews each need, and approved expenses are paid directly to the vendor on the individual’s behalf.
Helping Hands Charitable (CAP)
The problem: A company wants to take care of its own people, but without a structure in place before the crisis hits, leadership ends up improvising — inconsistent decisions, no privacy for the employee, no real plan.
The solution: A Corporate Assistance Program that gives every company a repeatable, dignified path to help: employees apply privately, Helping Hands handles the vetting and due diligence, and a decision comes back without anyone at the company having to sit in judgment of a coworker's hardship. Companies choose their own guidelines — with guidance — and can build a fund suited to a 12-person team or a 1,000-person one. It's the difference between hoping leadership notices someone struggling and having a system that catches them either way.
Helping Hands Support
The problem: A donor wants to give generously, but their wealth isn't sitting in a checking account — it's tied up in property, or stock that's grown for twenty years, and selling it outright means a painful tax hit.
The solution: This branch accepts the non-cash asset, converts it, and routes the proceeds to the causes that need them — all inside a tax-deductible structure. As Bryan Green, CEO of Helping Hands Charitable, puts it: "the tax benefits to you are far greater than you just writing a check to a not-for-profit... individuals will gift a highly appreciated asset to save on capital gains and other taxation, which is a really smart way to give."
ProvisionBridge
The problem: A family or business wants their generosity to be more than a single check every December — they want it to compound and last.
The solution: Donor-Advised Funds, Pooled Charitable Funds, and Scholarships that let giving grow over time instead of resetting every year. A family could contribute once, let the fund grow, and grant it out to causes over the next decade — building a legacy of giving rather than a single moment of it.
The Big Picture
Zoom all the way out, and here's the truth: most giving doesn't fall apart because people lack generosity. It falls apart because the mechanism doesn't fit the moment. Cash works for some situations. Stock and property need a different door. A company caring for its team needs infrastructure, not a one-time gesture. A family thinking generationally needs a fund, not a transaction.
That's really the heart behind all four of these organizations: meeting givers wherever they already are — cash, stock, property, payroll — instead of asking generosity to squeeze into one narrow shape. And it works both directions. Donors get to see exactly where their gift landed — the person, the story, the outcome — instead of watching it disappear into a general fund with no way to know what it actually did.
Whether you're an individual with a little to give, a business owner sitting on an appreciated asset, or a company that wants to protect its own people — there's already a door built for exactly that.
As Brittany Green, Director of Marketing & Public Relations, summed it up: “Crafting different organizations to meet the needs of those that we are donating to, it provides a greater way to give.”
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