How You Can Donate
It’s easy to participate in this project!
Individuals, homeowners, business owners, social groups and financial supporters can donate to the Longevity Bench Project.
4 ways to donate to the Longevity Bench Project:
To Make a Monetary Donation
Your tax-deductible contribution* will be used to support our goal to place a bench every half mile along popular walking routes. Click the Donate button to make a payment online or make your check payable to “Longevity Bench Project” and mail to:
Longevity Bench Project, Inc.
P.O. Box 145
Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA 01944
* A Nonprofit 501(c)(3) Organization. All donations are tax deductible.
We Welcome Your Creative Ideas
We are very grateful to have received such overwhelming support from the town and so many generous people who love Manchester-by-the-Sea. As we find donors for the remaining benches to reach our initial goal of 30 benches, we will celebrate together with those who have embraced our mission and who mark their personal progress toward health and wellness by walking bench to bench.
If you or someone you know have an interest in participating in the donation of a Longevity Bench or the land to place it on, we are very excited to hear from you. Together, we began this Project and together we will reach our goal. Email us or call 978-526-4491.
• The future bench locations on the map are generally located, not by specific address.
1. Donations of any size are welcome! Monies accumulated in the Project fund will be used to support marketing initiatives. To donate to a specific bench, please add a note on the memo line of your check, or when prompted when donating online.
Donate by check, payable to:
Longevity Bench Project, Inc.
P.O. Box 145, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA 01944
Donate by PayPal, credit or debit card and consider adding to your donation to cover the PayPal processing fees.
2. Donate a Longevity Bench “Package” which includes the property location, the pad and the bench (includes two lines of text on the commemorative plaque, optional)
3. Donate the property where a pad and bench will be located (includes one line of text on the commemorative plaque, optional)
4. Donate a pad and bench to be located on a property donated by others (includes one line of text on the commemorative plaque, optional)
Here's how:
1. The Longevity Bench Project will meet with property donors to have their location confirmed and measured by pad sponsor, Jeffreys Creek Land Contractors.
2. The location will then receive confirmation from the town’s Department of Public Works (DPW).
3. The personalized commemorative plaque wording will be confirmed by the property, pad and bench donors.
4. The bench sponsor, Keystone Ridge Designs, will begin production of the bench (allowing 8-12 weeks lead time).
5. The pad will be installed on the property donor’s site.
6. The bench with commemorative plaque will be delivered and installed by Jeffreys Creek on the prepared pad.
7. The Longevity Bench Project will celebrate with donors and add the new bench location to the website map.