Stewardship

Online Giving

We offer a service by which you are able to have your regular offering deducted on a regular and recurring interval from your bank account. The interval is specified by you as either weekly, monthly, or quarterly and is designated via the authorization form that you complete in order to sign up.

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Authorization Form for Direct Debit of Contributions

 

Bequests, Gifts, Memorials and Endowments

As a member of St. Martha and the Catholic faith community, one opportunity to express your gratitude for our Parish is through a bequest, gift, memorial, or endowment.

These contributions are a dignified remembrance, a way in which to pay tribute, or express sympathy or friendship, for those who have gone before us to be with Christ. They are a way to express your appreciation for a departed loved one and a celebration of their life that can last for years to come. These contributions can enable the parish to carry on God's message of faith, love, and charity.

Alumni and friends of OLBS School at St. Martha Parish can also make gifts while planning for their own future and the future of their loved ones. You can plan a gift through various means, some of which are tax-wise tools that can provide immediate and long-term benefits for you, your family, and the parish, such as an endowed memorial for education/scholarship, special ministry, capital improvements, etc. There are several ways to make OLBS School at St. Martha Parish the beneficiary of your charity by either making an outright gift now, or deferring your gift to a time in the future.

The parish now has an agency fund in place established through the Diocese of Buffalo to accept and invest these bequests, gifts, memorials and endowments.

Ways to make your gift:

• Through your will
• Income producing gift opportunities such as a charitable trust, gift annuity, or a pooled income fund
• Other giving opportunities such as a charitable or living trust, retirement plans, life insurance, or real estate.

And what you can give:

• Cash
• Property/real estate
• Life insurance
• Retirement
• Plan assets
• Securities

Please consider St. Martha Parish as a beneficiary of the treasure that God has bestowed upon you. For more information, you may contact Sue Koprucki at our Rectory office at 716-684-6342. Please consult your tax or legal advisor for specific financial advice for your personal situation.

 

Matching Corporate Contributions

Today, many companies or their charitable foundations match employee contributions (both time and financial) to non-profit organizations. Did you know that you can help multiply your support for our parish in this easy way? In fact, St. Martha Parish and OLBS School at St. Martha Parish have been the beneficiaries of such gifts in the past and we would like to see this grow.

The following is a list of companies or their charitable foundations that help support community organizations through grants, contributions, or matching employee contributions. Contact the human resources/benefits personnel at your company to make sure such a program is in place, that St. Martha Parish is eligible, and for more details on how to have your generosity multiplied. It usually takes just a few minutes, and St. Martha Parish can benefit tremendously.

If you know of any other companies that offer such a program but are not listed, please contact the rectory. Thank you!

ADP Foundation AETNA Foundation, Inc. AlliedSignal Allstate Giving Campaign American Express Foundation AT&T Foundation Bank of America Bell Atlantic Benjamin Moore & Co. Black & Decker Corporation Boeing Company Borden Foundation, Inc. BP Amoco Foundation, Inc. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Caterpillar Corporation CDW Computer Solutions Centers, Inc. Charles Schwab Corporation Chase Manhattan Corporation Chevron Cigna Citgo Petroleum Corporation Citigroup Compaq Compuer Associates Cooper Industries Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Emerson Electric Company Equitable Life Assurance Exxon Fireman's Fund Fleet Matching Gifts Program FMC Foundation Matching Gift Program Fort James Foundation Fortune Brands, Inc. Gannett Foundation GAP Foundation Gift Match Program GATX Corporation General Mills Georgia-Pacific GMAC Mortgage GTE Matching Contributions Honeywell Houghton Mifflin Co HSBC IBM Corporation IKON Office Solutions ITT Industries J.P. Morgan John Hancock Johnson & Johnson Johnson Controls Foundation Keebler Company Kemper Insurance Companies KMart Corporation Kohl's Lilly Endowment Inc. Liz Claibrone Foundation

Lotus Lucent Technologies May Department Stores Company Maytag Corporation Foundation McDonald's Corporation McGraw Hill Foundation, Inc. Merck Company Foundation Merrill Lynch Microsoft Mobil Monsanto Fund Montgomery Ward Morton International Motorola Foundation Mutual of New York Nabisco, Inc. Norfolk Southern Foundation Pepsico Foundation, Inc. Pfizer Philip Morris Company, Inc. Pioneer Pitney Bowes PPG Industries Prudential Quaker Oats Quest Diagnostics RJR Nabisco Rohm and Haas Rustoleum Corporation Safeco Insurance Companies SafetyKleen Sara Lee Siemens Automotive Smithkline Beecham Foundation Spiegel, Inc. Sprint Foundation Tandy Corporation Tenneco, Inc. The Duke Energy Foundation The Home Depot Time Warner, Inc. Transamerica Foundation Unilever U.S. Inc. UNISYS United Technologies UPS of America, Inc. Verizon W.K. Kellogg Foundation W.W. Grainger, Inc. Walmart Waste Management, Inc. Westinghouse Whirlpool Foundation Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation WMX Technologies Xerox Foundation Zurich Kemper Investments

 

The Agency Fund

Providing a Catholic education to deserving students is one of our primary goals. Our students can benefit each year from your donations to the St. Martha Agency Fund, which can provide dependable funds, year after year. The parish, its students and faculty can count on this support, no matter what the condition of revenues is from collections and other sources. The students of today are the leaders of tomorrow and your investment in them will pay the highest of dividends. Contact the rectory if you would like to give a gift to this fund!

A Special Thank You!

Over the last year, the parish has received two different types of gifts from Verizon. A few of their employees have submitted requests for their contributions to St. Martha Parish to be matched. A few school parents have asked that Verizon give a gift in honor of volunteer hours they gave given to our school. St. Gobain has also donated to St. Martha through its matching gifts program. We have also have received gifts for our parish pantry program in this same way. Thank you! Does your employer have a program like this?