Ways to Help

Make a Financial Gift

As a friend of The Arc Foundation, you help us provide funding for important services provided by The Arc. As a result of your generosity, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities learn essential life skills, fulfill their personal goals, and reach their maximum potential.

As a friend of The Arc Foundation, you help us provide funding for important services provided by The Arc. As a result of your generosity, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities learn essential life skills, fulfill their personal goals, and reach their maximum potential.

Donate Items to Our Thrift Store

The Arc of Ventura County is the sole recipient of our store’s profits. So, whether you are donating items or shopping in our store, you can feel good that you are helping people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Donation items for the store include:

  • Women's and girl's clothes
  • Men’s and boy’s clothing
  • Baby clothes and items
  • Shoes of all kinds
  • Linens
  • Home decor
  • Books, CDs, DVDs
  • Housewares and glassware
  • Small household appliances
  • Flatscreen TVs and electronics
  • Toys and games
  • Bikes
  • Sporting Goods
  • Useable Small Furniture

Please note The Arc Foundation is unable to pick up large appliances, beds, or large furniture.

Pickup Schedule

Monday

Ventura
Santa Paula
Ojai
Oak View

Tuesday

Westlake
Newbury Park
Agoura
Oak Park
Thousand Oaks

Wednesday

Simi Valley
Moorpark
Somis

Thursday

Westlake
Newbury Park
Agoura
Oak Park
Camarillo
Thousand Oaks

Friday

Oxnard
Port Hueneme

Planned Giving

We greatly appreciate current charitable contributions as well as planned, future gifts.  Planned gifts provide donors the opportunity to create a legacy for themselves by naming The Arc Foundation of Ventura County as a beneficiary in their will, trust, IRA or life insurance policy.

By making a charitable planned gift, you create a personal legacy and assure that our organization will continue for many future generations. Such gifts may be made by using any of the following gift vehicles:

  • Bequests
  • Charitable Remainder Trusts and Charitable Lead Trusts
  • Life Insurance
  • Remainder interest in a personal residence or Special Needs Trust
  • Gift from a qualified retirement plan

For more information on our Planned Giving Program, call 800-228-1413 or email info@arcfoundationvc.org.