February 5, 2007
Dear Friends,
Last year, you
charitably responded to our request to purchase
Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP) Tax
Credits to support the vision of the Union
Hospital Maternal Health Clinic and The Maple
Center. The State of Indiana endorsed and
recognized the vital community health
programming that our two organizations provide
to the Wabash Valley by awarding us $25,000 in
tax credits (that when sold, will generate
$50,000 in donations). Organizations such as the
Maternal Health Clinic that serve an
economically disadvantaged population are
competitively selected for the NAP credits each
year.
Once again, we
would like to invite you to participate in the
ultimate way to donate to worthy organizations.
As a reminder, any support you provide by
purchasing NAP Tax Credits is reimbursed to you
by 50% as a credit on your Indiana State Income
Taxes (limited only by your total taxes). You
are also able to deduct the entire donation on
your Federal Income Taxes. Depending on your
tax bracket, this means that up to 75% of your
support will be refunded to you.
As of
today, we have $7174.50 in tax credits to sell.
Local labor unions, our contractor, CDI, Inc.,
architect Steve Arnold, and our staff are
prepared and eager to begin construction and
renovations on our current facility. Your
response to this request to purchase NAP Tax
Credits for 2007 will enable these vital capital
improvements to occur. A new community health
education classroom will become the home of our
Centering Pregnancy Classes and numerous other
educational programs. Currently, we must sponsor
many of our programs off-site. The addition of
this classroom will benefit the community and
the Maternal Health Clinic and The Maple Center.
In addition to
the community education classroom, we are eager
to renovate the facility for our Dr. John Black
Memorial Resource Library, jointly sponsored by
The Maple Center and Union Hospital. This
facility will provide an innovative means for
health professionals and the public to learn
more about Integrative Medicine, Acupuncture,
and Maternity Care. Patients will also be able
to research their own personal medical
conditions.
Best of all,
Union Hospital, which owns One Professional
Centre, has agreed to credit the nonprofit Maple
Center the cost of these renovations toward the
building rent. This means that the rent from
individual providers who lease space within the
Maple Center’s Integrative Health and Maternity
Care Center will go to support the educational
projects of the nonprofit (approximately five
years’ rent.) Your donation helps make
the renovations possible and
provides sustaining, consistent income for the
nonprofit Maple Center.
We hope you will
take advantage of this opportunity. Checks
should be made out to Union Hospital
Foundation. If you have questions, please call
Mary Huffman at 238-7301 or David Land at
238-7534. Additional information is available on
our website at
www.themaplecenter.org.
With nearly 100
NAP Tax Credit donors assisting us in 2006,
we optimistically believe that these
remaining $7174.50 in NAP Tax Credits can be
sold before the end of February. Tax
credits will be awaiting you when you complete
your 2007 tax returns AND construction will be
able to initiate in early March if these
remaining Tax Credits are sold before the end of
the month. Will you consider partnering with
Union Hospital’s Maternal Health Clinic and The
Maple Center to reach our goal?
Respectfully
submitted,
Mary Huffman,
BSN, MSM Kathleen A. Stienstra, MD
Director,
Maternal Health Clinic Board President, The
Maple Center
