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Become a Bridge Builder

Make a One-Time Gift

We call the people who give directly to our retreats Bridge Builders. A Bridge Builder makes a one-time gift that covers what makes a retreat expense-free for a First Responder and their partner: the meals, the lodging, and the weekend itself. Retreats cost attendees nothing because of gifts like these.

Pick a level below, or give any amount you choose. Every gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law and fully receipted.

$20 · One meal

Breakfast, lunch or dinner for a First Responder at a retreat.

Give $20

$60 · A full day of meals

Breakfast, lunch and dinner for a First Responder at a retreat.

Give $60

$150 · One night's lodging

Pays for one night's stay at the hotel.

Give $150

$300 · Lodging for the weekend

A First Responder stays at the hotel for the entire weekend, free of charge.

Give $300

$700 · An entire retreat weekend

Everything one First Responder needs to attend, at no cost to them.

Give $700

$1,400 · A First Responder and their partner

The whole weekend, both of them, together.

Give $1,400

Other ways to give

A monthly gift is the one we can plan a year of retreats around — the same amounts, spread across twelve months. Give monthly instead.

Stock, a qualified charitable distribution, or a donor-advised fund — here is how those work.

By check, or through Community Shares of Mid Ohio if your employer offers workplace giving.

Join our email list

Signing up here subscribes you to our email — that’s all it does. You’ll hear from us a few times a year about retreat dates, stories from the weekend, and how the work is going. We keep this list separately from our donor and retreat records, so please add your name here even if we already have it elsewhere.

Check your inbox after you sign up. We’ll send an email asking you to confirm — you’re not on the list until you click the link in it. We never sell, rent or trade your information.

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First Responders’ Bridge is the operating name of The Bridge Corp, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 82-5475103. A receipt is emailed as soon as your gift goes through.

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752 N. State St #146, Westerville, Ohio 43082
614-271-4981

First Responders’ Bridge is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that offers educational and informative retreats for first responders and their significant others. We do not provide counseling services.

First Responders’ Bridge does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability and age in the delivery of services or in employment practices.

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