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This page includes content for peer-to-peer fundraisers supporting IVCG. These are volunteers helping raise support for the programs supporting our neighbors.
The biggest annual event for this is the Great Give hosted by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. This content can also be helpful for Giving Tuesday or your own conversations throughout the year with current or prospective supporters.
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Service Statistics
Understanding impact is critical when investing in local nonprofits. No need for a guessing game! We're sharing general statistics across all programs.
Program Details
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Call to Action
GENERAL IVCG PITCH (you can copy, paste, and edit as needed):
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The Great Give is back for 36 hours (May 6-7). I hope you will join me in supporting IVCG, a volunteer-led nonprofit that serves our local community. The Great Give is community-wide event run by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven in support of local FOR PURPOSE (not-for-profit) organizations.
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One community-based volunteer-led entities open to all neighbors (non-religious - yet honoring the multiplicity of faith grounded in empathy) is your Interfaith Volunteer Care Givers of Greater New Haven (IVCG).
IVCG leads with care and compassion from an empowered position that centers on the good that comes from acts of neighborly kindness. Our main service focus is with seniors, many of whom struggle with loneliness and isolation as well as health and financial challenges. However, we also focus on helping youth by elevating reading literacy and we benefit all ages through our volunteer opportunities.
Through six active community programs and leadership support for the "Volunteer Engagement Group of Greater New Haven" (involving nearly 20 area organizations), we're making a difference with over 10 thousand acts of kindness each year.
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Our volunteers deliver fresh food and free incontinence products every Saturday (52 weeks per year!).
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We give thousands of free rides to medical appointments.
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IVCG shares durable medical equipment through our $1 loan program.
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Through the CT Garden Collaborative, we create community art projects, run social events, and elevate interest and engagement with public gardens in Connecticut.
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Also, as one of 16 partners across the country and the ONLY one in CT, Experience Corps of GNH includes over 20 tutors are helping local students with reading literacy and social-emotional learning through schools in New Haven and Hamden.
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With IVCG, we're not waiting for someone else to make our community vibrant. We're making it happen together. Locally with volunteers at the center.
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Our work is possible because of generosity of volunteers and donors. Support your neighbors today. You'll be keeping volunteer engagement opportunities active and senior support services available (growing older is our *universal* journey!). Today, I'm inviting you to amplify human dignity and weave our community together. We hope you can be part of our story.
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Here’s a direct link to my personal fundraising page: [INSERT Link to your personal peer-to-peer page]
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Gratefully,
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[your name]
General Statistics
Philanthropy makes a BIG impact with IVCG.
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​​Curious about the “return on your investment”?
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Looking for content you can share to boost your peer-to-peer Great Give efforts?
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The VALUE of human connections and contributions are truly priceless when neighbors help their neighbors. Discover the difference you're making!
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IVCG’s annual operating budget is just over $215,000—a modest amount for a Connecticut nonprofit addressing some of the most overlooked community challenges. This year, to advance our services, we seek $66,702 from individual community philanthropists.
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We currently operate six active community programs, all supported through volunteer leadership and donors like you.
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One program, Mae's Closet, will soon be repositioned with Wheel It Forward. Supporting Mae's Closet in 2026 through IVCG's Great Give event will help with this important transition!
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There are 26 active volunteer opportunities, offering meaningful ways for people to serve.
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Separate from DME clients, we currently support more than 500 unique individuals each year with our programs. Counting their family - this number goes well beyond 1,200 people.
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Across the IVCG community, volunteers carry out over 10,000 acts of kindness each year.
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We provide caring support that addresses basic needs such as food delivery and free incontinence products.
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We offer opportunities to gain peer connection through co-created art with the CT Garden Collaborative.
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Each year, we provide more than 3,000 free rides to medical appointments.
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Our 1:1 literacy tutoring supports local K–3 students in their foundational reading years. During the 2025-2026 school year, we have been helping 60 students in New Haven and Hamden.
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Nearly 2,000 bags of groceries are delivered each year.
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Hundreds of incontinence supply bags reach those who need them most.
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Approximately 1,000 pieces of durable medical equipment are shared through our $1 loan program each year.
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All of this is possible because of the generosity of volunteers and donors. We are proud to be a volunteer-led organization centered on human dignity, intergenerational connection, and respect for elders who are too often overlooked.
There is no question: when volunteers take caring action for neighbors—and when we stretch every contribution as far as possible - the whole community wins. Thank you for supporting this simple but profound truth.
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After 42 years and your help in this moment, the journey is just beginning!
Great Give 2026 Materials
Along with: Program Specific Info to Use
Visit this page for the toolkit curated by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven:
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(Click to download the impact report.)
​​For the 2025 - 2026 school year, we've had 24 volunteer tutors who have served 67 students with over 1,600 volunteer sessions!
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Discover more here.
Food equity is a cornerstone of community resilience. We are proud to partner with Loaves and Fishes in order to make our weekly deliveries possible. Access more info for your efforts here!
Elevating connections in community includes greater awareness and interest in the places that inspire us.
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Discover more about our program efforts here.
Visit this page to access photos from IVCG that you can use in your peer-to-peer social media efforts and/or email outreach to build support for the programs you love.
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Interested in supporting the RIDES and RIDES+ program as a peer-to-peer fundraiser? Visit this program information page for more details.
Supporting human dignity for local seniors is foundational to all of IVCG's program efforts. This is most clearly evident with our Diapers for Dignity program that involves weekly delivery of incontinence products for those in need. Discover more here.
