How You Can Help

A current need of ours may spark an interest from you and so, what follows, is a list of our current needs:

Gently used/clean winter jackets for men
Belts
We need to install Facebook, Twitter and a blog - can you help?
"Thinking of you" greeting cards and plain greeting cards
Someone to help us keep our mailing list up to date
Toiletries (travel size)

There are other ways

1. You Can Donate

You can donate through the United Way/CFC campaign. Our United Way number is 8207. Our CFC number is 53470.
You can donate online through Network for Good
You can donate on line through the Catalogue of Philanathropy
You can donate by check, made payable to Visitors' Services Center and sent to the address listed above.
You may also donate stocks and securities for an account we have recently opened to receive such donations. Should you wish to make a donation of securities, please call us and we will provide you with our DCT number.

VSC is a 501(c)(3) organization and your donation is tax deductiable in its entirety.

"I just want to say that if I had 2 million dollars, I would split 1 million between my mother and my children; the other million would be portioned: $999,995 for Visitors' Services Center and $5 for me to come meet the staff (subway $1.50) and get a 5 wing chicken special with fries and extra mumbo sauce ($3.50). The only thing that would keep my heart from being content that day is if there was not enough ketchup on my fries."

Letter to VSC, DC Jail Inmate

2. You Can Volunteer

Our donate a wide range of hours - from 2 hours every other week to several days each week. They contribute is so many ways including:

Work in our office and respond to inmate requests
Work directly with inmates at the Jail
Providing information to and helping visitors in the Jail's visiting line
Picking up property at police districts
Helping with fundraising activities including our annual benefit.

"For a person I have never met, you are a very important person in my life -- like the light at the end of a long dark tunnel and I pray God gives you the strength to shine on! Because what would the world do without people like you? Shine on!"

Letter to VSC, DC Jail Inmate

3. You Can Write a Letter of Support

If we have helped you in any way or if you would generally like to cheer on the work that we do, a letter of thanks and/or support is always welcome. Such letters are enormously helpful to our ongoing fundraising needs.

"My friends and I want to write letters of support for VSC. We will start tomorrow, because the NBA championship games start tonight."

Letter to VSC, DC Jail Inmate