| cial Kids Fund is one of many non-profit organizations | | | | accommodate their handicapped ore elderly family |
| who dedicate their time and efforts to the welfare of | | | | member and make transportation to the doctor, school, |
| kids with disabilities, special needs, and at-risk youth. | | | | activities, and family trips easier on everyone. In the |
| Donations, particularly vehicle and wheelchair van | | | | unfortunate event that your family experiences the |
| donations, are just one of the many methods SKF | | | | loss of the family member who needed the wheelchair |
| uses to help support families, schools, hospitals, and | | | | accessible van, or if circumstances simply change and |
| programs for kids with special needs. The very | | | | you no longer need the van because you’re |
| dedicated people who are associated with The | | | | getting a new one, making a vehicle donation can be |
| Special Kids Fund do their best to find ways to raise | | | | beneficial to both you and the recipient. You can use |
| money, gather volunteers, and assist these programs | | | | the donation as a way to commemorate the passing |
| in any way they can. However, their efforts alone | | | | of your loved one, and give another family the |
| often aren’t enough to maintain the expenses | | | | opportunity to make their life a little less difficult by |
| that are required to support the schools, hospitals, | | | | giving them the gift of transportation. Another way you |
| camps, programs, treatments, and individual care these | | | | can benefit from a vehicle donation is the year end tax |
| children need. As a result, charity and donations are | | | | deduction. Vehicles that are already adapted and are |
| asked of the rest of the community to assist them in | | | | accepted into SKF’s vehicle donation program |
| making their goals of helping disabled children, their | | | | make the donor eligible for a full fair market value tax |
| families, and communities, possible. | | | | deduction. |
| There are approximately 4 million children under the | | | | In 2005, IRS Vehicle Donation Laws changed to only |
| age of 18 in the United States who have some type | | | | allow up to a $500 deduction based on the fair market |
| of disability. Some of these disabilities leave children | | | | value and requires that the owner determine its value |
| unable to walk without some support, like a walker or | | | | based on its actual condition. Vehicle Donation |
| crutches, and others who rely on the use of a | | | | Programs like SKF’S allow you to get the best |
| wheelchair because they cannot walk at all. | | | | IRS deduction since the donated wheelchair vehicle is |
| Wheelchairs obviously have certain requirements that | | | | a gift to a needy family rather than sold or auctioned. If |
| people who can walk tend to overlook. Wheelchair | | | | the vehicle appraises over $5000, the IRS requires a |
| vans, are a significant help when it comes to | | | | certified appraisal, but this does allow you to get the |
| transporting a person in a wheelchair. Accommodating | | | | highest deduction, even under the new IRS rules. |
| a wheelchair in a typical vehicle isn’t easy, and | | | | SKF and other non-profit organizations like them, |
| the use of a wheelchair accessible vans allow these | | | | whose mission and dedication to giving a better life to |
| kids to be mobile, get to doctors appointments, and | | | | kids with special needs and their families is so |
| most importantly, to participate in other activities that | | | | important to our communities and their children who |
| their family and friends attend. There are some | | | | may be considerable restricted otherwise. By vehicle |
| fortunate situations where an insurance company will | | | | donations you become a part of their quest to |
| cover at least a portion of the cost of a wheelchair | | | | improve the lives of those with special needs and the |
| accessible van, or the conversion of a van, enabling it | | | | people responsible for caring for them. By making a |
| to accommodate a wheelchair and lift. But most | | | | vehicle donation, you become a part of the combined |
| situations leave the cost of the van or conversion on | | | | efforts that are already in place striving to help out one |
| the shoulders of the family alone. That is why vehicle | | | | person or family at a time. Wheelchair vans allow |
| donations and van donations are at the top of the | | | | families to spend time together as a family, to go out |
| most wanted list of SKF charitable contributions. | | | | to dinner, family outings, on vacations, and even the |
| Many people have a van, SUV or RV that has been | | | | simple everyday trips. |
| modified to be wheelchair accessible in order to | | | | |