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)