NIGHTNGALE

there is no light without the dark
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Give one night. Give a week. Give a year.

$87
1 Night
A safe room
Covers one survivor in a vetted partner hotel, booked under an alias. The most direct gift you can make.
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$261
3 Nights
A weekend through
Three nights buys an advocate the time to find shelter, family, or transitional housing. This is the gap we fill most often.
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$609
1 Week
A full week
Covers a survivor through the first week of their case — medical exam, advocate intake, court filings, breath.
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$2,610
30 Nights
A month of rooms
One safe room every night for a month. Named recognition on the donor wall. Quarterly impact reports.
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Every gift is a room. Every room is a night.

Monthly giving is the backbone of Nightingale. Recurring donors let us promise a hotel partner there will be a room next month, and the month after.

501(c)(3) registered.Every donation is tax-deductible. EIN provided on receipt.
100% pass-through.The board personally covers all operating costs. Your dollar is the room.
Stripe secured.Payment is processed by Stripe, the same platform trusted by global nonprofits.
Alias placement.No survivor's name ever touches a hotel registry. Confidentiality is the entire model.
Where your money goes

One hundred percent. Not a marketing number.

100%
To Hotel Stays

Every dollar pays for a room.

Hotel placement
Negotiated partner-hotel rates and the alias-placement protocol used by rape crisis centers regionally.
100%
Administration
Covered personally by the Nightingale board. Bookkeeping, software, payroll, and processing — none of it touches donor dollars.
0%
Fundraising overhead
Our annual benefit concert, One Night, raises operating capital independent of donor gifts. We do not solicit your dollar to pay for the next solicitation.
0%
Annual Benefit

One Night. One concert. One room.

Our flagship event brings musicians from across Northern California together for a single night of live music. Every ticket is priced at exactly the cost of one safe hotel night. You buy a ticket, you fund the room.

Performing artists donate their time. Production is underwritten by sponsors. 100% of every ticket goes directly into the hotel fund.

Buy tickets Perform or sponsor
One Ticket
$87
The exact cost of one safe night at a vetted partner hotel. Nothing held back.
Hotel partner rate$72
Booking + alias placement$11
Processing$4
Total per survivor$87
Other ways to give

Stock, donor-advised funds, employer match, planned gifts.

Donor-Advised Funds

Recommend a grant to Nightingale from your DAF at Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, or any community foundation. We are listed under our EIN.

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Stock & Securities

Gifts of appreciated stock are often the most tax-efficient way to give. We can accept transfers through our brokerage partner. Email sasurvivor@onenightingale.org for transfer instructions.

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Employer Match

Many employers match charitable gifts dollar-for-dollar. Check with your HR team and submit our 501(c)(3) details. Some matches arrive months later — double your impact.

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Planned & Legacy Gifts

Include Nightingale in your estate plan, beneficiary designation, or charitable remainder trust. Confidential consultation with the board chair available on request.

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Questions

What donors ask before they give.

Is my donation tax-deductible?
Yes. Nightingale is a registered 501(c)(3) public charity. Our EIN is provided on every receipt. Consult your tax advisor regarding deductibility limits for your circumstances.
How do I know 100% really goes to hotel stays?
The Nightingale board personally covers all operating costs — bookkeeping, software, processing fees, and travel. Our annual independent financial review will be posted to this page. Operating expenses are raised separately, through the One Night benefit concert and underwritten sponsorships, never from donor dollars.
How are hotel partners vetted?
Nightingale partners only with properties that meet a confidential safety review by our board's hotel liaison. We use alias placement (a protocol shared with regional rape crisis centers) so no survivor's name ever appears on a hotel registry. Properties known for trafficking or unsafe management are excluded entirely.
Why $87? Where does that number come from?
$87 is the current blended cost of one safe night at our vetted partner hotels across Placer, Sacramento, and Nevada counties — including the negotiated room rate, the booking and alias-placement administrative cost, and the payment processing fee. This number is reviewed quarterly and published on this page.
Can I give anonymously?
Always. Your donor wall recognition is opt-in. You can choose to be listed by name, by initial, or anonymously at the time of your gift, and you can change that preference at any time by contacting us.
Can I give in honor or in memory of someone?
Yes. Tribute gifts can be made in honor or in memory of a person, with optional notification to a family member. We never disclose the gift amount in tribute notifications.
How do you spend recurring monthly gifts?
Monthly gifts are pooled into the Nightingale Hotel Fund. Recurring donors let us pre-commit a baseline number of nights every month to partner advocates, who can then promise a survivor a room without waiting for fundraising. It is the single most useful gift you can make.
How do you respond to a survivor in crisis right now?
Nightingale does not work directly with survivors. We work through partner agencies — rape crisis centers, district attorney victim advocates, and law enforcement victim services in our three-county region. If you or someone you know needs help right now, please contact RAINN at 1-800-656-HOPE or your local crisis line.

Somewhere tonight, an advocate is on the phone looking for a room.

Be the room.

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