What your Pledge Can Buy

$1 per pay period ($24 annually)

• Pays for 8 packets of suture – enough to spay and neuter 10-24 animals (MT Spay Neuter Task Force)
• $1 can provide 8 meals for hungry Montanans, so $1 per pay period provides 208 meals for hungry Montanans.  (MT Food Bank Network)
• Provides childcare for a single parent so that she can attend monthly membership meetings that mobilize low-income members to advocate for change.  (WEEL)
• Buys a new book for the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s library.
• Supports a hotline listing in your local Yellow Pages, which provides rural and under-served constituents access to resources and community.  (PRIDE)
• Sends a birthday greeting or other card to 50 elderly, homebound people. (Befrienders)
• Sponsors a complete round of intake vaccinations, including a 1-year rabies vaccination, for two cats or two dogs (or one cat and one dog). (Heart of Valley Humane Society)

$2 per pay period ($48 annually)

• Pays for one monofilament fishing line capture bin to keep fishing access sites cleaner as well as printing and distribution of one educational brochure about the program. (MT Wildlife Federation)
• Pays for one cat spay operation. (Lewis & Clark Humane Society)
• Allows American Wildlands to print a large, color analysis map for a Montana conservation organization requiring the low-cost services of our Geographic Information Systems Lab.

$2.50 per pay period ($60 annually)

• Pays travel expenses for a Network organizer to visit a Montana community to assist with mobilizing against hate and bigotry on the local level. (MT Human Rights Network)
• Pays for lessons on the Bill of Rights and the Rule of Law for 300 students. (ACLU of MT Foundation)

$3 per pay period ($72 annually)

• Pays for one cat adoption (Lewis & Clark Humane Society)
• Supports a mental health advocate to testify and teach legislators about mental health care issues.  (MT Mental Health Association)

$4 per pay period ($96 annually)

• Buys a mammogram for one medically under-served or under-insured Montana woman. (Komen MT)
• Pays for one dog spay operation or one week of cat food (Lewis & Clark Humane Society)
• Supports one fourth-grade student in the Visiting Naturalist in the Schools program with 7 classroom/schoolyard visits and 2 day long field trips (MT Natural History Center)
• Sends a speaker to a university class to educate thirty future teachers or attorneys about the legal issues of gay and lesbian families. (PRIDE)

$5 per pay period ($120 annually)

• Pays for one dog adoption, one week of dog food or four cat neuters  (Lewis & Clark Humane Society)
• Sponsors medical evaluations and spay/neuter surgery for 2 shelter animals. (Heart of the Valley Humane Society)
• Supports a volunteer/senior match for three months for companionship for the elderly.  (Befrienders)
• Helps upgrade the Mai Wah Chong Tai buildings by installing heat, plumbing, upgrading/fixing windows and finally repainting the facade. (MaiWah Society)

$9 per pay period ($216 annually)

• Helps bring a Vigilante Theatre Co. play to a small town.

$10 per pay period ($240 annually)

• Covers the cost for 10 college students to attend Students for Choice Campus Organizing Training (NARAL Pro-Choice Montana Foundation)
• Allows scanning advance directives for 100 people into Choices Bank and proves return wallet cards to them so their medical directives are available anywhere at any time.  (Life’s End Institute)
• Pays for 18 spays or neuters at MT Spay/Neuter Task Force.
• Buys enough flour for a year’s worth of fry bread served by Last Chance Community Pow Wow at its events.

$12 per pay period ($288 annually)

• Buys a month’s supply of frozen mice for injured birds of prey (owls, eagles, hawks) at the Montana Raptor Conservation Center.

$15 per pay period ($360 annually)

• Pays for one child to attend a week-long camp for children with asthma (American Lung Association of the Northern Rockies)
• Pay the honorarium for one vet/vet tech team at a MT Spay Neuter Task Force event.

$17 per pay period ($408 annually)

• Supports tiny tot dancers (6-year-olds) dressed in their Native regalia at the Last Chance Community Pow Wow at the Helena Civic Center during the 4th weekend in September.

$20 per pay period ($480 annually)

• Buys 204 snowberry bushes to plant on restored lands after an old, failing, public land road is removed. (Wildlands CPR)
• Pays for one artist’s living and studio space for one month at the Montana Artists refuge.

$30+ per pay period ($800 annually)

Matches a Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteer and one child (Big Brothers Big Sisters of MT)