Your Gift Moves Mental Health Forward
Your financial contribution to NAMI helps a create a world where all people affected by mental illness can experience hope, recovery, wellness and freedom from stigma.
Make an Impact Today or Every Day
NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization. We are dedicated to improving the lives of millions of Americans affected by mental illness. We strive to create a better tomorrow—a tomorrow where all people affected by mental illness can experience hope, recovery and wellness in a world free of stigma.
When you make a financial contribution to NAMI, you help us make that tomorrow a reality. You help ensure that no individual or family is alone on their mental health journey. You help provide a national network of support and resources, both online and in communities across the country.
Planned & Legacy Giving
Leave a lasting legacy by including NAMI in your estate plans. Your support ensures hope, recovery, and wellness continue for generations to come.
Giving Societies
Join NAMI’s Giving Societies and help power mental health education, support, and advocacy every day. From monthly giving to leadership support, your involvement strengthens communities, fuels programs, and connects you with a nationwide movement dedicated to hope, recovery, and wellness.
Gift Guide
When you make purchases through companies who partner with NAMI, a portion of your purchase supports our cause. It’s our way of making it easy for you to shop with brands that share our commitment to mental health and give back to the NAMI community.
Ways Of Giving
There are so many ways you can help us continue our mission of providing education, support and awareness on behalf of individuals living with mental illness and their families.
Donor Advised Funds & IRA Gifts
Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) are investment accounts for the sole purpose of supporting your favorite charitable organizations.
Stock Gifts & Cryptocurrency
A gift of appreciated stock, bonds or mutual funds can provide fantastic tax benefits for you and help NAMI improve the lives of people affected by mental illness.
Tribute Gifts: Honor & Memorial
Honor or remember a loved one with a memorial or honorary gift to NAMI National. This page covers how to donate online, via PDF, or create a custom memorial page to honor a loved one through NAMI National.
DIY Fundraisers
NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization, which means we rely heavily on you–our supporters in communities throughout the country. You can use your talents and areas of interest to help raise funds for and awareness about an issue that affects millions of Americans every year.
NAMIWalks
Participate in NAMI’s largest mental health awareness and fundraising event series, taking place in over 200 locations across the country.
Vehicle Donations
NAMI partners with Charitable Adult Rides and Services (CARS), which accepts vehicles on our behalf. CARS accepts any kind of vehicle, and pick-up is available anywhere in the country with very few exceptions.
IRA Charitable Roll Over
Make a tax-wise qualified charitable distribution (QCD) from your IRA directly to NAMI. Your gift may provide benefits to you while improving the lives of people with mental illness.
Workplace Giving
Many workplaces offer the opportunity to donate to NAMI through payroll deduction or through Matching Gift programs that “match” their employees’ contributions to their favorite charities.
Other Ways of Giving
Learn more about ways of giving to NAMI.
Traditional and Offline Donations
Donate By Mail
NAMI
PO Box 49104
Baltimore, MD 21297
Donate By Phone
1-888-999-NAMI (6264) – select menu option 3
NAMI is a 501(c)(3) organization and can also be identified for tax purposes with our EIN 43-1201653
For more information about donating or how your donations are used, please email Donor Services or call us toll free at 1-888-999-NAMI (6264) – menu option 3.