How Your Gift Helps.

When you make a gift to Hills & Dales your gift helps in many ways!

  • Gifts directed to the area of greatest need will be used across the agency for the benefit of all residents and clients.

  • Severe weather and power outages are now part of life in Iowa. While Hills & Dales has two portable generators, we lack a building-wide backup generator at our Residential Center—a critical safety system standard in modern healthcare facilities. For the 59 children and adults who rely on our 24-hour care, electricity powers essential equipment and daily needs including lifts, feeding pumps, communication devices, pharmacy access, and meal preparation. Help us raise $125,000 to ensure uninterrupted, safe care when the next outage comes—because backup power means powering safety, stability, and expanded care when it matters most.

  • Residential-based supported community living (RBSCL) provides 24-hour daily support to children aged 17 and under living outside of their family home within a community setting.

    Our services focus on developing daily living and social skills, paired with behavior intervention strategies, to support children, adolescents and their families in achieving greater independence while benefitting from a home environment.

    The first Hills & Dales RBSCL home is currently being built in the Dubuque area! This home is anticipated to open by early 2026.

  • Work has begun on an update and renovation of former administrative space at the Residential Center that will be living space for current residents.

  • Make a contribution to support the new Weber Autism Center.

Have you considered a recurring gift?

A recurring monthly gift provides steady, reliable support for the children and adults who rely on Hills & Dales every day.
It’s simple, automatic, and one of the most powerful ways to help—month after month.

Together, we can provide consistent care and create life-changing opportunities all year long.

Set up your recurring (monthly, quarterly, annually) gift below! Contact Wendy at wsweeney@hillsdales.org with any questions.

Recurring plans can be changed at any time.

Ways to Support

 

  • Hills & Dales accepts gifts made with cash or by check and credit card. You can make a gift through the website (above), or by mailing a check to: Hills & Dales, 1011 Davis Street, Dubuque, IA 52001

    If you would like assistance using your credit card to make a gift, please call 563-556-7878.

  • Stocks, bonds, or other forms of securities that have appreciated in value are the next most common form of gift. The tax advantages to the individual make them highly attractive. Money market funds also make excellent gifts. Please contact our office or your financial advisor to make a gift. We can be reached at 563-556-7878 or by email at dalthoff@hillsdales.org

  • Please see your tax advisor, accountant, investment strategist or lawyer to make donation decisions that impact your taxable income, tax deductions and/or investment strategies.

    1. A bequest: make Hills & Dales a beneficiary in a new or revised will or add a codicil to an existing will.

    2. A future gift form an IRA, pension or other qualified plan: name Hills & Dales as a beneficiary of such plans.

    3. A gift annuity agreement: enter into an agreement with Hills & Dales for a charitable gift annuity or a deferred gift annuity to provide a life income for one or two lives.

    4. Insurance policies: Make Hills & Dales the sole or partial beneficiary of a life insurance policy. You could also gift ownership of a policy to Hills & Dales for an immediate tax deduction.

    5. A Trust: a charitable unitrust or annuity trust can benefit you, the donor, today and Hills & Dales in the future. A revocable trust arrangement can also benefit Hills & Dales in the future.

    6. A life estate: make a gift to Hills & Dales of your home or farmland, retaining the use of the property during your lifetime.

  • Employee matching gifts are donations an employer makes to match its employees’ charitable contributions.

    Employee matching gifts are often dollar-for dollar, but some companies will give double or even triple the original donation. Some companies may also give matching gifts for employees’ volunteer efforts.

    Procedures vary with each company. Typically, individuals must submit forms to their employers. They usually can get more information about matching gift benefits from their human resources department.

  • This State of Iowa program allows donors to endowed funds benefiting a nonprofit in Iowa a state income tax credit of 25% of the donation, up to $100,000 annually.

    For more information about how you can access the Endow Iowa Tax Credit program, please contact the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque or the Quad Cities Community Foundation.

  • Search the web with GoodSearch.com and each search, GoodSearch will donate to Hills & Dales!

    You can also shop online at GoodShop.com for a percentage of each purchase to be donated.

Contact us.

Deanne Althoff
Mission Advancement & Community Relations Director

dalthoff@hillsdales.org
563-556-7878

1011 Davis Street
Dubuque, IA 52001