Helping Carolina Wildlife Financially

Become A Donor
Please help CWC continue to build its nest!  Carolina Wildlife Care is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, which cares for thousands of injured, orphaned, and displaced animals each year.  Our goal is to return these animals back into the wild.  By making a charitable contribution to Carolina Wildlife Care, you help ensure that wildlife can receive food, caging and medical care during their time of need, and you also underwrite the Center's educational efforts and much, much more!  Your donations to CWC are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law. Please also read our donor privacy policy. Please also read our donor privacy policy.

CWC Levels of Support

Click here to make a credit card donation.

Click here for a donation form.

Wildlife Conservation Partners
Carolina Wildlife Care’s Wildlife Conservation Business Partners appreciate the importance of being good stewards of the environment and recognize the benefits in funding wildlife conservation efforts locally through Carolina Wildlife Care.  By participating at a selected level, business partners underwrite the vital and necessary mission of the Center.  Carolina Wildlife Care can effectively acknowledge businesses that act as good corporate citizens and support of wildlife conservation efforts in South Carolina either through a CWC event or project sponsorship, or by an unrestricted gift.

Please contact Executive Director, Joanna Weitzel, at carolinawildlifecare@sc.rr.com or 803-772-3994 with questions regarding this opportunity.

Click here to view a PDF of the benefits of becoming a business partner.

Click here to view the different sponsorship opportunities available

Join the Carolina Wildlife Care Legacy Circle
Remembering wildlife in your final wishes is a wonderful way to leave a lasting legacy.  Supporting Carolina Wildlife Care, Inc. through planned giving costs little or no money to implement and is a great way to ensure that your assets go directly towards making a difference for wildlife.  While it is relatively simple to include CWC in your long-term estate planning, Carolina Wildlife Care strongly encourages all of its supporters to explore the different avenues of planned giving under the guidance of a professional financial advisor.

The following information is needed when including CWC in your final wishes:

Name: Carolina Wildlife Care, Inc.
Physical address: 5551 Bush River Road, Columbia, SC 29212
Phone: 803-772-3994
Website: www.carolinawildlife.org
Email:  carolinawildlifecare@sc.rr.com
Incorporated in South Carolina as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit.
Federal ID # 57-0932809

As a 501(c) 3 organization, Carolina Wildlife Care, Inc has the opportunity to pursue many different avenues of planned giving based upon the wishes of the donor.  However, the most common ways of supporting Carolina Wildlife Care through planned giving are by either designating CWC as the beneficiary in your will, by a gift of a life insurance policy, or a gift of a 401K.

To make a gift to Carolina Wildlife Care by will or bequest, you simply leave a specified dollar amount to the organization.  Carolina Wildlife Care encourages unrestricted gifts to provide the Board of Directors flexibility in allocating these resources to projects of utmost importance at CWC.

Some supporters may have life insurance policies that were purchased long ago and are no longer needed, or there may be no surviving family members who will need the policy. You may wish to leave the policy to Carolina Wildlife Care or designate CWC as the beneficiary.  A charitable deduction may be claimed for approximately the surrender value of the policy.

In the event that a 401K is no longer needed for retirement or family members, it can also be donated to Carolina Wildlife Care. This can be advantageous for tax purposes, as the entire value of the 401K can be donated without tax penalties.

As Part of the Carolina Wildlife Care Legacy Circle, You Make A Lasting Difference.
CWC supporter, Josephine Furlong, had a special interest in animals.  By choosing to remember Carolina Wildlife Care as one of the charities named as beneficiary of her estate, she enabled the wildlife center to invest in ways that is securing the future of the organization to benefit wildlife for years to come.  Through Jo’s meaningful planned gift, CWC updated the main rehabilitation room at the Center, constructed a new enclosure for an education animal, added inside cages and completed several other projects.  Through her foresight and planning, Jo made a lasting difference at Carolina Wildlife Care and for wildlife in South Carolina.

Individuals interested in making a difference at Carolina Wildlife Care through a planned gift can contact Joanna Weitzel, Executive Director, at 803-772-3994 or by email at carolinawildlifecare@sc.rr.com.  If you have already included Carolina Wildlife Care in your estate planning, please let us know and we will include you in the Carolina Wildlife Care Legacy Circle. 

Celebration/Memorial/Honorarium Opportunities

Create a Critter Card
Sending a Critter Card is a meaningful way to extend your thanks, birthday wishes, or congratulations to someone special. Critter Card donations can also be made in lieu of flowers or sympathy cards to memorialize a special pet or loved one.

For a $25 donation or more, a beautiful card with a photograph of a rehabilitated animal from Carolina Wildlife Care is sent to the person you designate.* Upon receipt of your donation, we will send the card with a special message notifying the person you designate of the gift. A thank you letter will also be sent to you, acknowledging the receipt of your donation. These beautiful cards make a unique and memorable present ... for a child ... student ... a friend or family member.  And all tax-deductible donations support the lifesaving mission of Carolina Wildlife Care!

Make a Critter Card donation

To Make a Critter Care donation by phone, call (803) 772-3994
*Please allow 5-7 business days for standard (USPS First Class) delivery of Create a Critter Cards.
Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.

“Share the Care” and Sponsor a Wild Animal
Looking for a special gift that will bring a smile and save a life? Whether young or old, this is the perfect gift for any nature lover in your life. Share the Care and help save native wildlife, when you sponsor one of the thousands of animals arriving at the wildlife center.

Share the Care wildlife sponsorships make wonderful gifts for:
Nature lovers: Through your sponsorship, you will bring hope to an injured, orphaned, or displaced animal that it will once again live wild as nature intended.* There is simply no better feeling than being part of restoring the balance of nature!

Children of all ages: All sponsorships include a picture of the species of animal being sponsored and a sponsor certificate. It also comes with an animal care sheet, including fun facts about how that animal lives in the wild and special details on how it is cared for in rehabilitation. It is an exciting way to get children to learn more about the wildlife living in our own backyards and encourage future conservationists!

Sponsorship Levels

$25 Sponsorship
A nestling American Robin
A nestling Brown Thrasher
A nestling Blue Jay
A Canada Gosling
A baby Southern Flying Squirrel
A baby Eastern Cottontail
A juvenile Yellow Belly Slider

$50 Sponsorship
A nestling Ruby Throated Hummingbird
A nest of Carolina Wrens
A baby Eastern Gray Squirrel
A nest of baby Eastern Cottontails
A baby Virginia Opossum
A juvenile Eastern Box Turtle

$75 Sponsorship
An Eastern Kingbird
A nest of Eastern Bluebirds
A team of Mallard Ducklings
A nest of Southern Flying Squirrels
A Little Brown Bat pup

$100 Sponsorship
A nest of Chimney Swifts
A baby Raccoon
A fledgling Green Heron
A nest of Eastern Gray Squirrels
A pouch of baby Virginia Opossums

$200 Sponsorship
A Nighthawk
A Great Egret
A nursery of baby Raccoons
A White-tailed Fawn

$500 Sponsorship
A Red-Tailed Hawk
A Great Blue Heron
A River Otter pup
A Beaver kit

Your sponsorship will include:
• Personalized Sponsor Certificate
• 4x6” or a 5x7” Photo of Sponsored Animal
• Animal Care Sheet of Sponsored Animal
• Coloring Sheet (if desired)

Become A Share the Care Sponsor

To Sponsor by Phone, Call (803) 772-3994

*Each wildlife adoption is symbolic. Your donation will be used where needed most to help injured, orphaned, and displaced wildlife at Carolina Wildlife Care. Please allow 5-7 business days for standard (USPS First Class) delivery of Sponsorship Kits. Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law.

Engraved Bricks
Leave A Lasting Impression Supporting Carolina Wildlife Care’s engraved brick program is a great way to show you care about preserving South Carolina’s wildlife for years to come. Commemorate a special event in someone's life, or honor or memorialize someone special. Bricks and pavers are as follows:

$100 8x4” brick- Three lines, eighteen characters and spaces per line
$225 8x8” paver- Six lines, eighteen characters and spaces per line

Tribute bricks not only serve as a lasting celebration of friends and family, but they make Carolina Wildlife Care a better place for the animals and our community, today and tomorrow!

After we receive your brick order, you will get an acknowledgement letter in the mail. It takes about 6 months to order the bricks, have them made and delivered. You will be notified once your brick has been installed.

Reserve your brick today

Special Designation Gifts
Projects are never ending at Carolina Wildlife Care, and equipment, cages and aviaries need continuous repairs and renovating. Carolina Wildlife Care seeks donors to help sponsor these costs that are also necessary in providing quality care to the animals.

Special designation gifts include the following:

Aviary Sponsorships
For a contribution of $1,000, Carolina Wildlife care will designate an aviary at the center in honor or in remembrance of a friend or family member. An engraved plaque is attached to the aviary bearing the name of the person being honored or remembered through this gift.

Small Mammal Cages
For a contribution of $500, we will designate a small mammal cage at the center in honor or remembrance of a friend or family member. An engraved plaque is attached to the cage bearing the name of the person being honored or remembered through this gift. The donor is also given a special tour of the wildlife center to see exactly how the donation is being put to work.

Large Mammal Cages
For a contribution of $1000, we will designate a large mammal cage at the center in honor in remembrance of a friend or family member. An engraved plaque is attached to the cage bearing the name of the person being honored or remembered through this gift.

Animal Intensive Care Incubator
For a contribution of $900, Carolina Wildlife Care can purchase an incubator to provide an appropriate environment for injured, ill or convalescing patients. Caring for the tiniest and most critical patients always presents a special challenge, but with the right equipment and care the challenge becomes less difficult. The unit provides a proper environment for tiny neonates and hatchling and nestling songbirds. Incubators are located in the main rehabilitation area of the wildlife center. An engraved plaque is attached to the incubator bearing the name of the person being honored or remembered through this gift.

Animal Habitat
New animal habitats can be sponsored to honor or to memorialize a friend or loved one or just to show corporate citizenry. To sponsor a habitat and receive name recognition, it will take at least 50 percent of the habitat’s full construction cost. To sponsor larger capital projects and buildings, it will take at least 40 percent of the construction cost.
For more information on any Special Designation Gift, please contact Joanna Weitzel at 803-772-3994 or by email at carolinawildlifecare@sc.rr.com.