Donate Online
In any amount, great or small, you can make an online tax-deductible contribution to Direct Relief to support its programmatic work. Through a secured site, you can donate using a Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express. There is also an additional option to arrange a recurring payment using your credit card.
Donate in Tribute
If you would like to give a gift in honor of someone, we can mail a tribute card by award winning photojournalist Jodie Willard directly to your family, friends, or business associates telling them you’ve made a generous donation in their honor.
Use Our Gift Catalog
Give a gift that supports our programs. Make a donation through this online "catalog" and you can announce your gift with an eCard. It's the perfect gift for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, or holidays.
Planned Giving
You can create a lasting legacy at Direct Relief International by including us in your estate plans. A bequest to Direct Relief can help you and your family reduce or avoid estate taxes and at the same time help you realize your own philanthropic objectives.
Create Your Own Fundraising Page
Create your own fundraising Tribute page—it's easy to do and is a great way to honor a special person or occasion in your life while supporting Direct Relief. Celebrate your wedding, honor a birthday, anniversary, or special holiday, and even remember a loved one with a memorial page. Learn more about Tribute pages.
Mail a Check
You can mail in your donation--send a check to: Direct Relief International, 27 S. La Patera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. If you would like to designate your gift, please note the designation on the check. We will mail you back a letter of receipt.
Automatic Monthly Donation
You can arrange to have a donation made directly from your checking or savings account to Direct Relief. If you would like to set this up, please download the form, fill it out, and mail the original signed copy to Direct Relief. Automatic transfers will occur on the fifth business day of each month.
Donate Stock
A gift of publicly-traded securities can have tax advantages to the donor as well as support the mission of Direct Relief. Please consult your tax advisor.
Donate Your Vehicle or Boat
Through Cars4Causes, you may donate your vehicle, RV, motorcycle, or boat, with 70 percent of the net proceeds of the sale going to Direct Relief.
Workplace Giving
An easy way to increase your gift to Direct Relief International is through your employer’s matching gift program. Numerous organizations, including companies, corporations, foundations, not-for-profit organizations and associations match their employee’s charitable contributions—sometimes for double the amount of the initial gift.
Donation Policy
By clarifying that we may use your contribution wherever most needed, you allow us to strengthen the long-term health systems that are vital to vulnerable people around the world and respond to emergencies that do not receive widespread attention. We commit to spend your money in the most productive, efficient way possible.