Courage Center Handiham System

How you can help... ...and build a legacy that reaches far into the future!

The Courage Handiham System is a program service of the non-profit Courage Center, a registered 501C3 charity. Your gift will help people with disabilities enjoy the world of amateur radio.  All gifts are formally acknowledged.

Postal mail - Letters and gifts of monetary support:

Courage Handiham System
3915 Golden Valley Road
Golden Valley, MN 55422

Shipping address for gifts of ham radio equipment:

Handiham System
Camp Courage
8046 83rd St. NW
Maple Lake, MN 55358

Please make checks to "Courage Handiham System" or call toll-free1-866-426-3442 to donate via credit card, or go to our online secure website.

Thank you for your support! We really appreciate your help.

A volunteer program that will use your donation wisely

The Handiham System is run by a small staff, and consists mostly of volunteers who help by teaching at Radio Camp session, recording ham radio materials for the blind, fixing up donated equipment, and doing other good work to make the program possible. Donors, who support the program financially and with gifts or radio equipment, are essential to its success.

• We especially need financial support to build the Handiham Endowment Fund. This fund currently pays (through investment return) about half the cost of current operating expenses. If you can help us, we would sure appreciate it!

• You may always call us toll-free at 1-866-HANDIHAM (1-866-426-3442) for information.

• Equipment -- If you are considering a gift of equipment, please consider helping people with disabilities and sensory impairments get on the air and enjoy the world-wide fun of amateur radio with a gift to The Courage Handiham System. Donations and Membership Line 1-866-426-3442 Toll-Free.

Now you can give to Handihams online!

You can support Courage Center's Handiham System with an online donation. We exist only because of the support of people like you - people who care about other amateur radio operators. Of course our special mission is to help people with disabilities to earn their licenses and get on the air. Often times we hear from people whose circumstances are truly difficult. They have little money, and they are stuck in their house or care facility, but have always wanted to get on the air. They may have retired from a long-time job because of an injury or after losing their eyesight and now are looking for a way to get back on the air, or to get on the air for the first time. We are experts at breaking down barriers and helping people to achieve their ham radio goals - and by extension, other life goals as well! 

Now, don't get me wrong. We also have plenty of highly self-sufficient members with disabilities who simply enjoy using our audio resources and want to share their contributions with others who share similar interests. The point is that we are all about hams helping other hams.

I hope you will consider a gift to support this work. Gifts to Courage Center and its programs are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law, and you will be helping our staff and volunteers to share the excitement of ham radio with people who will be really grateful! In a moment, I will give you a link to the secure Courage Center donation website, but I did want to give you a few brief tips about how to use it.

Once you get to the secure page, you will find "Please make a donation to Courage Center!", followed by a form page. The first section of the form, called "Donation Information", is the part I need you to be very careful about because if you want to support our program, you have to say so in this section. You are asked to either choose an amount to give, or fill in an amount. Now comes the "Designation" pull-down. You must use the pull-down and select "Handi-Hams" if you intend the gift to support the Handiham program.

Screenshot of the donation page pull-down menu showing "Handi-Hams" selected.

In the "Additional Information" section, you use a pull-down to choose the frequency of the gift - a one-time gift, for example. This section also allows you to check a box if you are giving on behalf of a company or if you prefer to donate anonymously. There is a comment section as well. Then you will find the "Billing Information", which is your name and address, followed by "Payment Information", which is your credit card information. Finally, there is "Tribute Information", in case you wish to give on behalf of someone special by honoring them with a tribute. When you complete the form, click the "Donate Now" button.

Oh, and please do us a favor and let us know if you find any part of the form to be inaccessible via screenreader.

Follow this link to the secure Courage Center donation web page.

In you are reading this in plain text, the link is:

https://couragecenter.us/NETCOMMUNITY/SSLPage.aspx?pid=294&srcid=344

Thank you for your support!

73,

Patrick Tice, WA0TDA, Handiham Manager

And the Members, Staff and Volunteers of Courage Center's Handiham System