Why Give to the Jones Center?

The Jones Center is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides a unique recreational facility and educational forum for residents of Northwest Arkansas and beyond.

Giving Circle: Friends of Bernice
This giving circle consists of the Jones Center’s most loyal benefactors, who wish to help the Jones Center meet our region’s needs well into the future.

The Jones Center’s mission is to serve families, strengthen community and glorify God. We create a safe haven for children and teenagers, promote health and wellness to families, connect senior citizens to their community, and establish bonds between diverse communities. We enrich and change lives – all at no charge.

The Jones Center campus features a community park, the Life Adventure Center, and the Family Resource Center, which houses 40 local nonprofit agencies rent-free. From the region’s only regulation-sized ice arena to KidsPlus, our childcare facility that is free to all guests, we offer resources for everyone. When you give to the Jones Center, you enhance our services and ensure that we anticipate our region’s future needs.

How Can I Give to the Jones Center?

Annual Giving

Our annual giving program provides a base of support for the Jones Center’s daily operations. Annual gifts address a broad range of our immediate needs and enhance the services we provide. Most donors provide gifts in the form of check, debit or credit card, or automatic bank draft. To increase your annual impact, you may sign up for monthly automatic deductions from your banking or credit card account. Contact our Coordinator of Annual Giving to find out more: giving@jcf.jonesnet.org.

Giving Circle: Corporate Friends of Harvey
This giving circle welcomes private support from individuals, corporations and foundations. Members share Harvey’s spirit of creating opportunities for families in Northwest Arkansas.

Giving Circles

Memorials and Chapel Chairs

Major Gifts and Planned Gifts

• Endowment
  The endowment acts like a permanent savings account for the Jones Center to provide a perpetual source of income for staff salaries, building maintenance, services and programming. Each gift to the endowment enhances our ability to serve Northwest Arkansas' needs and to enrich educational and recreational programs.
  The Jones Center's goal in endowment management is to invest endowment gifts so that they maintain their value in real terms over time. We invest the initial gift and spend only a portion of the average annual investment return. The remaining income is added to principal as protection against the eroding consequences of inflation. Thus, the benefactor who makes an endowment gift today may be confident that it will grow and continue to support its intended purpose far into the future.
• Cash Gifts
  Cash is the simplest, most direct and most popular type of charitable gift. A gift of cash to the Jones Center is recorded as a contribution on the date it is hand-delivered or mailed. The net cost to you can be much less than the actual amount of the gift because of the charitable deduction. A cash gift is deductible for up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income. Any amount in excess of the 50 percent ceiling can be carried over for five years.
• Matching Gifts
  Many corporations will match or multiply their employees’ gifts to The Jones Center. Check with your human resources department to find out if your employer participates and, if so, ask for the appropriate forms to qualify for matching gift support.
• Retirement Funds
  During 2007 (and perhaps beyond, depending on current legislation pending in Congress) direct rollovers (gifts) from IRA's to the Jones Center are possible if the donor is 70 1/2 or older. The direct gift from the IRA to the Jones Center is not included in the donor's income for the year of the gift, yet such transfers do count against minimum distributions for the year. A donor's total gifts to charities from this source may not exceed $100,000 per year.
• Securities and Real Estate
  Gifts of appreciated property, such as securities (stocks and bonds) and real estate, generate a double tax benefit. In addition to receiving an income-tax charitable deduction for the full, fair market value of the property, you avoid any potential tax on the capital-gain element in the gifted property if the property has been held for over a year. The full, fair market value of gifts of long-term, appreciated property is deductible up to 30 percent of your adjusted gross income. Any amount over the 30 percent ceiling can be carried forward up to five additional years.
• Tangible Personal Property
  As with gifts of securities or real estate, you are entitled to a charitable deduction for gifts of tangible personal property such as works of art, rare books, or stamp or coin collections. The allowable deduction for such a gift held over 12 months depends on the standard of "related use." If the use of the contributed property is related to the Jones Center's exempt purposes, you are entitled to a charitable deduction for the full, fair market value of the property -- subject to the 30 percent ceiling and carryover discussed under the "Securities and Real Estate" section above. If the use of the contributed property is unrelated to the exempt purposes of the Jones Center (e.g., a stamp or coin collection for the Jones Center to sell and use the proceeds), you are entitled to a deduction only for your cost in the property.