Donate to Next Door Solutions
Your gift helps survivors and their children access immediate safety, practical options, healing, and longer-term stability. It also strengthens prevention and community advocacy so fewer people experience violence in the first place.
Additional Ways to Donate
Choose the giving method that works best for you. Contact the Development team with questions or before making a complex gift.
Donate by Check
Make checks payable to Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence and mail them to: 1400 Parkmoor Avenue, Suite 120, San Jose, CA 95126.
Employer Matching
Many employers match employee donations and volunteer hours. Search the matching-gift tool or ask your human resources team.
Legacy Society
Include Next Door Solutions in your estate or financial plans and help ensure survivors and families can access safety and support for generations to come.
Stock Donation
A gift of stock, mutual funds, or other appreciated property may provide meaningful support and potential tax benefits. Contact us before initiating a transfer for verified instructions.
Donate Your Smart Phone
Donate an eligible used mobile phone through the current recycling or donation partner.
Facebook Fundraiser
Invite friends and family to support Next Door Solutions through an approved social fundraising platform.
Donate Your Car
Donate a running or non-running vehicle through the approved vehicle-donation partner. The partner arranges pickup and provides tax documentation.
Wishlist and In-Kind Donations
New goods and gift cards help us respond to immediate needs and support families as they establish safety and stability.
Gift Cards
Gift cards are among the most flexible and useful donations. Current priorities:
- Safeway
- Target
- Wal-Mart
Toiletries
New, unopened, full-size items are always needed:
- Shampoo
- Conditioner
- Body wash
- Lotion
- Toothpaste
- Deodorant
- Menstrual products
- Culturally appropriate hair-care items
Survivors are often leaving their homes so trial sized items are less practical.
Pantry Items
Shelf-stable, unexpired food is welcome. Please consider protein-rich items.
Shelter Needs
Regular needs include:
- New bedding
- New towels
- Cleaning supplies
- Children’s items
- Household basics
Because the shelter location is confidential, all deliveries go through our main office for in-person delivery or shipping.
Shop Our Registries
Prefer to shop online? Send essentials straight to us through our Target or Amazon registries.
Why Give to Next Door Solutions?
NDS is Santa Clara County's only stand-alone domestic violence agency and its largest provider of these services. Donations give us the flexibility to respond to urgent needs, fill gaps public funding does not cover, and sustain a full continuum of support.
Immediate Safety
Help keep the 24/7 hotline answered and provide emergency shelter, hotel placements, transportation, food, and other urgent needs.
Stability and Healing
Support legal and housing advocacy, counseling, groups, children's services, case management, and flexible help that can prevent a return to crisis.
Community Change
Invest in education, prevention, partnerships, and advocacy that challenge violence and strengthen healthy, respectful relationships.
Our Community of Supporters Makes the Work Possible
Public agencies, foundations, companies, faith communities, civic groups, nonprofit partners, and individual donors all help keep services available and strengthen the community response to domestic violence.
