Your Gift Helps PBC Patients Find Knowledge, Connection, and Hope
Living with Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) can bring uncertainty, unanswered questions, and feelings of isolation. Your donation to PBC Awareness, NFP helps patients and families access education, connect with a supportive community, and have their voices heard.
Your generosity supports:
– Patient education: Clear, trustworthy resources and educational programs that help patients understand PBC, learn about treatment options and clinical research, and prepare for conversations with their healthcare team.
– Community connection: Monthly conversations, patient ambassador connections, and community gatherings where people can share experiences, find encouragement, and know they are not alone.
– Awareness: Outreach that brings greater attention to PBC, its symptoms, and the everyday challenges patients face—while elevating patient voices.
– Patient travel scholarships: Financial assistance that helps reduce travel costs so patients can attend educational conferences and connect with fellow patients, advocates, healthcare professionals, and researchers.
For someone newly diagnosed, your gift can help make reliable information easier to find. For someone feeling isolated, it can create an opportunity to connect with people who understand. For someone unable to afford conference travel, it can help open the door to education and community.
Give today to help more people living with PBC feel informed, supported, and heard.
Elevating Patient Voices. Empowering Lives. You Are Not Alone.
PBC Awareness, NFP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. EIN: 99-1717327
Questions? Contact us at info@pbcawareness.org.
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You can give at a level that works for you — $25, $50, $100, $250, or another amount — and you can choose to make it a one-time gift or a recurring monthly donation that sustains our work all year long. However you choose to give, your support directly advances our mission.
More Ways to Donate
You can make an instant donation on-line via this page.
If you’d prefer to donate by check, please make all checks payable to: PBC Awareness, NFP
Our postal address is: 15826 LaGrange Road #177 Orland Park, IL 60462
Donations left in our supporters’ wills are absolutely crucial: with them, we can ensure our future. Here’s how you can ensure our continued support to those affected by PBC for many years to come:
Consult a lawyer, who can help you to write a will, or to make a short amendment to an existing will known as a codicil. A codicil mentions the type of gift (e.g. money, property), and the full name of our charity, ‘PBC Awareness, NFP.’
Alternatively, have you thought about leaving a legacy during your lifetime, so you can see the impact your donation will have on the lives of PBC sufferers? Remember, legacies are exempt from inheritance tax, so leaving one may also help you to reduce the amount of tax payable on your estate, after you are gone.
Have you got a big celebration coming up? Many of our members have asked their friends and family for donations instead of gifts for their birthdays, anniversaries, and wedding days. It’s a great opportunity to share your story and raise awareness of PBC. You could create a Facebook fundraiser, or hold a collection at your party
Have you thought about selling your old things? Not only can you free up space and reduce waste, but you can helps to raise funds for PBC Awareness, NFP by selling your old clothes, CDs, books, DVDs, and trinkets.
Sell on eBay: Give your house a clear-out and make money at the same time! eBay has a dedicated option which allows you to decide exactly what percentage of the item’s final selling price you would like to give to charity, making it a really easy way to fundraise!
Did you know we are five times more likely to be supported by organizations if we have a personal link to them? Please ask your friends, relatives, and anyone else within your network if they or anyone they know is involved with an organization that gives to charity.
Get your school, college or university involved
Organize a fundraising event, such as a dress down day or fete at your school or university!
Get your club or special interest group involved
Are you or is anyone you know a member of a fraternity, sorority, an amateur sports club, or any other special interest group? If so, have you considered asking them if they give to charity, and recommending us for a donation?
Get local businesses involved
Did you know there are plenty of businesses that give to charity following customer recommendations? Here is a list of companies that have charity programs. The next time you go shopping, go to your bank, or pay your bills, nominate us for a donation, if you can.
Giving Through Work
Could your employer or the employer of someone you know:
- Work in partnership with us or sponsor us?
- Donate time, funds and resources?
- Enable you or others to make donations from earnings, or company/personal pension plans, that are free of tax?
- Help you to fundraise at work, by holding cake sales and dress down days?
- Match your fundraising total, and display our collection boxes?
A hassle-free way to give through your pay! Payroll Giving, is a simple way to make regular donations straight from your salary, without having to give any bank details. It is one of the most tax-effective ways of giving to charity as it comes out of your gross pay (before tax) so it will cost you at least 25% less.
Partnering with us can take a variety of forms, depending on the kind of business you represent. You could:
- Select the PBC Awareness, NFP as your company’s “Charity of the Year”
- Donate your time or resources
- Encourage employees to fundraise at work, by holding office events, outdoor challenges, or marathons, runs, or cycling events
- Match employee’s fundraising totals
- Promote payroll giving
- Display our collection boxes
Benefits include:
- Raising your profile and enhance your reputation by positively associating your company with a national charity dedicated to the health and wellbeing of those affected by PBC
- Making an impact on a local, regional, national, or international level.
- Demonstrating your commitment to the local community in which your business operates
- Reaching the targets of your Corporate Social Responsibility program
- Motivating your employees and encourage teamwork through volunteering with us
We can provide t-shirts, collection boxes, and other branded fundraising materials for your employees, and offer PR and communications support to spread the news about your charitable efforts. For more information about our corporate partnership opportunities, please contact us at info@pbcawareness.org.
Many companies will allow their employees to take a number of volunteer days each year so they can contribute to causes they are passionate about. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to donate your time and skills to PBC Awareness, NFP, and enable you and your employer to give back to the community. Find out more about how you can volunteer with us.