Donate to Blue Cap

Your donation to Blue Cap makes an immediate impact in the lives of people with disabilities.

Blue Cap has supported people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Blue Island since 1967. Below are the ways people give, from a gift that goes straight to the working day to a brick that stays in the garden for good.

Where a gift can go

  1. General Support

    Gifts to General Support go to immediate use in day-to-day operations.

  2. Bequests and the Infinity Society

    Bequests are the cornerstone of most estate plans and one of the easiest and most flexible ways to leave a gift to Blue Cap that will make a lasting impact. With the help of an attorney, you can include language in your will or trust specifying a gift be made to Blue Cap as part of your estate plan. Consider including Blue Cap in your estate plans by becoming a member of the Infinity Society.

  3. Memorial or Honorary donation

    If you wish, the family of the donation honoree receives notification from us of your contribution.

  4. Special Events

    Attend, sponsor or donate through the events Blue Cap holds through the year.

    See the Special Events page

  5. A Celebration Garden brick

    Place a brick to permanently commemorate weddings, anniversaries, military service, graduations, births, birthdays, milestones, family or the loss of a loved one.

  6. Items such as clothes and furniture

    Bring them to the Development Department at the Instructional Center, 1962 Broadway. Please call Jill Hart first at the main number, ext. 108.

Brick paver courtyard beside the brick building corner and green shrubs
Pavers outside 2155 Broadway, Blue Island, in leaf.

A brick in the Celebration Garden

A brick permanently commemorates a wedding, an anniversary, military service, a graduation, a birth, a birthday, a milestone, a family or the loss of a loved one.

Blue Cap has a printable order form for bricks. For the form, or for questions about a brick, call the Development Office at (708) 389-8137, ext. 801.

Carved wooden tree on a white block wall, two pairs of children carved beneath its branches
The carved tree inside 2155 Broadway. A memorial or honorary gift is a way to mark a person in a place like this one, and the family of the honoree hears about it from us.

Talk to the Development Office

The Development Office works from the Instructional Center at 1962 Broadway. Call before you give if you have a question about a bequest, a memorial gift, an event or a brick. Prefer to write? Use the contact page.

Call the Development Office (708) 389-8137Send a message

Development Office, ext. 801.

The tax statement

Blue Cap is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. If no goods or services were provided to you in return for your charitable contribution, the entire amount of your gift is tax deductible to the full extent otherwise allowed by law.

Giving time instead? See how to get involved, or read about the Tuesday food pantry.