Support our work
Building healthy environments and thriving communities — together.
Your gift powers Isles’ wide range of interconnected services: helping families build financial security, creating pathways to education and employment, growing healthy food in our neighborhoods gardens and revitalizing our communities. When our community has what it needs to grow and thrive, everyone benefits.
Giving options
Credit card
A donation to Isles via credit card on either a one-time or recurring basis will enable us to continue to create a healthy community and environment where everyone can grow and thrive.
Mail a check
A donation by check to Isles on either a one-time or recurring basis will enable us to continue to create a healthy community and environment where everyone can grow and thrive.
Mailing address:
Isles, Inc.
Resource Development Dept.
10 Wood Street
Trenton, NJ 08618
Please make your check payable to ‘Isles’.
For more information, please reach out to Randi Orlow:
609-341-4722
Stock transfers
A gift of appreciated stock can be a smart way to give — you may avoid capital gains tax and qualify for a charitable deduction based on the stock’s current market value.
Giving appreciated stock is simple! Our preferred method of receiving stocks is via direct transfer to RBC Wealth Management. To make a transfer, please use the following information:
Transfer to: RBC Capital Markets LLC
DTC # 0235
For Credit to: Isles
Account Number: 302-49394
Tax ID #: 22-2350832
Note: Per IRS Regulation 1.170A-1(b), stock gifts received via Depository Trust Company are acknowledged using the mean value of the stock on the date of transfer into Isles’ RBC account.
If you have any questions, please call Isles’ account advisors:
Brett Scharf: 609-936-6407
Leah Zikoski: 609-736-6413
Planned giving
A bequest is one of the most meaningful gifts you can make — ensuring that future generations in Trenton and beyond have access to healthy homes, safe neighborhoods, and strong communities. Donors across the country have chosen to support Isles this way, leaving a legacy that will endure for decades.
Isles recommends donors seek advice from a professional estate planner, financial advisor, or attorney to determine the best plan for you and your family.
Sample bequest language:
I give to Isles, Inc., located at 10 Wood Street, Trenton, NJ 08618 (Tax ID: #22-2350832), the amount of $________ (or ___% of the rest of my estate) for general operating purposes.
Isles recommends that you seek advice from a professional estate planner, financial advisor, or attorney to determine the best charitable donations plan for you and your family.
Please be sure to notify Isles of your intention to make a planned gift using our Isles bequest notification form:
Additional options to plan a gift for the future:
Charitable Remainder Trust
Set aside a current asset for the future benefit of Isles while reserving lifetime income for yourself and other designated beneficiaries.
Charitable Lead Trust
Pass assets to heirs with reduced gift or estate tax exposure. Income payments are directed to Isles for the duration of the trust, with the remainder going to individuals you designate.
Beneficiary Designations
Name Isles as a beneficiary or contingent beneficiary of your life insurance policy, retirement plan, or IRA.
Charitable Grant through a DAF
A DAF (Donor-Advised Fund) is like a charitable investment account to support a qualified charitable organization that’s important to you. Recommending grants to Isles through your DAF and take advantage of benefits, such as:
- Immediate income tax deductions
- Simplified giving
- Flexibility and strategic planning
For more information, please reach out to Randi Orlow:
609-341-4722
Qualified Charitable Distribution
A Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) allows individuals aged 70½ or older to transfer up to $111,000 annually from a traditional IRA directly to a qualified charity, tax-free. Other benefits include:
- Donation counts toward IRS Required Minimum Distributions (RMD)
- Lowers your taxable income
- Reduce Medicare premiums
For more information, please reach out to Randi Orlow:
609-341-4722
Increase your impact!
Request an employer match
Matching gifts ensure your contribution goes twice as far. Ask your employer if they have a Matching Gift Program and submit a request to double or triple your donation.
Become a monthly donor
Monthly giving creates long-term, sustainable funding that allows Isles to make lasting commitments to programs and to the people we serve. When you become a recurring monthly donor, you’re helping us to plan ahead with more efficient budgeting. Recurring payments are available in the credit card giving option.
$25
per month
Sponsors a homebuyer workshop for 10 families, helping build assets and stronger communities.
$50
per month
Provides materials, soil tests, seedlings, and technical help to one community garden for a full year.
$100
per month
Provides students at Isles Youth Institute with lunch and classroom supplies for an entire school year.
Give $84 per month — Become a Bridge Builder
Bridge Builder Benefits
A personal invitation to our annual Bridge Builders gathering and donor recognition event.
An exclusive look inside Isles’ work, through quarterly updates from the CEO
Special invitations to the Garden Social, Isles Youth Institute graduation, and more.
Share your story of why you became a supporter of Isles – we would love to feature your “Why Isles” in our newsletter and this website. Please contact Randi Orlow at [email protected].
Our valued individual and corporate donors
Isles Bridge Builders

At $84 per month, your annual giving reaches $1,000 making you an Isles Bridge Builder. Isles Bridge Builders show an increased commitment to creating healthy environments and thriving communities with an annual contribution of $1,000 or more. Their gifts help form a bridge connecting those who have resources with those whom Isles serves.
Any donor whose annual contributions total $1,000 or more is considered an Isles Bridge Builder and will be invited to our annual gathering of some of our most vital supporters.
Interested in becoming a member of the Isles Bridge Builders? Please choose your giving option above.
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