A dollar a month.

KARA runs on small, steady gifts: 10,000 people giving $1 a month funds independent child-protection reporting, the state-by-state record, and the toolkits, with no tracking and no data sold.

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At the rate confirmed in FFY 2024, a child in the United States is confirmed as a victim of abuse or neglect about once every 59 seconds.

Source: NCANDS, Child Maltreatment 2024, 532,228 confirmed victims. 31,536,000 seconds in a year ÷ 532,228 ≈ 59 seconds. Check the arithmetic.

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Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit

Kids At Risk Action, EIN 51-0570258, certified 2007. Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

A real person answers

Questions about giving go straight to KARA’s founder and executive director: mike@invisiblechildren.org.

A named, working board

Greg Christian, Jim Earley, Al Innamorato, Lawrence King, and Damon Kocina. Mike Tikkanen is President and Executive Director.

Backed by real partners

Highland Bank, Edina Federated Women’s Foundation, Auction Masters, and in-kind partners including Google, Riipen, and AWS.

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Other ways to give

Not everything arrives by card. These three come up most, and KARA is set up for all of them.

Gifts of stock

KARA can receive appreciated securities directly, and is already set up to do it. Giving stock rather than the cash from selling it is what most people are asking about when they call; what that is worth in your case is a question for your own advisor. Write to us and we will send the transfer details.

A gift in your will or trust

A bequest costs nothing now and can be a line in a will you are already writing. Your attorney needs KARA’s legal name, address and EIN, all three of which are below.

Beneficiary designations

A retirement account, donor-advised fund or life insurance policy can name KARA as a beneficiary without going through a will at all. It is usually a form from the account provider.

KARA / Kids At Risk Action

910 First Street So #4091
Hopkins, MN 55343
EIN 51-0570258

The wording your attorney will ask for

I give and bequeath to KARA / Kids At Risk Action, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation located at 910 First Street So #4091, Hopkins, MN 55343, federal tax identification number 51-0570258, the sum of $________ (or ______ percent of my residuary estate) to be used for its general purposes.

Sample wording, not legal advice. Have your own attorney adapt it - they will want to match it to the rest of your will and to Minnesota law.

Questions about any of these go to KARA’s founder and executive director, and a person answers. mike@invisiblechildren.org