During the Great Give, your donation helps provide tickets to local students for a performance at Legacy Theatre, supports our dynamic, professional teaching staff in its offerings of stimulating and diverse theatre classes for all ages, provides funding for Legacy’s Wheel Life Theatre Troupe, an ensemble of actors who ambulate with crutches or use wheelchairs, benefits our outreach programs, providing access to the arts for underserved communities, and so much more!

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is providing a matching pool of $10,000 to inspire giving to visual and performing arts organizations. All donations made to eligible organizations via The Great Give 2024 during the 8:00-9:00 p.m. hour on May 1 will receive a prorated portion of the match pool based on the number of unique donors, in addition to the prorated share of the Community Foundations’ matching pools. Many arts organizations will showcase their work in this Power Hour of giving to raise funds

FAQs

What is The Great Give?
The Great Give 2024 is the fifteenth major community-wide giving event benefiting Greater New Haven's nonprofits and occurring over an intense 36 hours from 8:00 a.m. on May 1 to 8:00 p.m. on May 2, 2024. The Great Give was created by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven through its online resource known as giveGreater.org® to strengthen nonprofits serving Greater New Haven by advancing knowledge about their work and increasing giving to their organizations. More than $24 million has been raised since The Great Give began.

When is The Great Give?
The Great Give runs from May 1-May 2, 2024 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.. Advance gifts can be made for The Great Give beginning at 8:00 a.m. on April 26, 2024; advance gifts will count toward match calculations, but will not be counted toward hourly prize incentives. Donation pages will remain open until 8:00 a..m. on May 6.  No prizes or matches will be awarded on gifts made after 8:00p.m. on May 2.

Who can donate?
Any individual with a valid credit card, bank account or mobile wallet (Google Pay, Apple Pay, Microsoft Pay) and access to the internet may donate; individuals must be responsible for the credit card, bank account or mobile wallet used and be authorized to use it. 

What forms of donations are accepted?
Contributions may be made via MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express credit and debit cards; mobile donors may use Apple Pay, Google Pay or Microsoft Pay.  Donors may also input banking information for electronic transfer for funds.  Credit and debit card gifts as well as mobile wallet gifts and electronic transfers are eligible to receive matching funds (see Terms of Service for details).

Gift(s) of $500 or more received from a private or family foundation, or donor advised fund, or by check or electronic transfer from a personal account will be eligible for The Great Give prize and matching pool only if the gift is donor-directed for a matching gift incentive. To qualify a check of $500 or more as eligible to be included in match and prize calculations, an organization must log on to the organization’s administrator dashboard on www.thegreatgive.org and publish details about the match challenge under “Manage Matches and Challenges" below the main listings on the dashboard. "Add Match" Commitment before 12:00 p.m. on May 2, 2024.  If the published information does not include the donor's name, the organization must submit a copy of the check and the donor's confirmation that it is to be used as a match to The Community Foundation by 12:00 p.m. on May 2, 2024.