Utility Advisor

Donate · Utility Advisor Inc

Light up
a life.

Somewhere in Maryland tonight, a family is counting the days on a shut-off notice while an oxygen concentrator hums in the next room. Your gift is what stands between that notice and the dark.

  • 100% of your donation reaches the mission. Zeffy charges us nothing.
  • Tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law; receipt sent instantly.
  • Give once, or become a monthly sustainer.

Light Up a Life

Utility Advisor Inc

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$50 helps keep the lights, and the oxygen, on for a family in crisis.

Donate $50

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Where your gift goes

The help the grants don't cover

State assistance is powerful, but it's slow, capped, and doesn't reach everyone. Donations fund the part of this work that keeps people safe in the meantime.

Emergency bill relief

When a medically vulnerable household is days from shut-off and the state grant hasn't posted yet, a direct payment toward the balance keeps the power on now.

Volunteers who answer the phone

Training, tools, and coordination for the program volunteers who call people back, build their cases, and stay with them until the power is secure.

Plain-language education

Keeping our assistance guide current and getting it in front of the Maryland families searching for help at 2 a.m., so they find real answers instead of dead ends.

1,000+

CMNP applications processed

$20.5M

In assistance secured

15,027

Households served

100%

Of your gift reaches the mission

This program was a true lifeline. We depend on medical equipment at home, and Utility Advisor made sure our power stayed on.

P. Robinson · Program participant

Questions donors ask

Is my donation tax-deductible?

Utility Advisor Inc is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Zeffy emails your receipt right away.

Why Zeffy?

Zeffy is a donation platform built for nonprofits that charges us no fees at all, so every dollar you give reaches the mission. Zeffy may ask if you'd like to add an optional tip for them; that's entirely your choice.

Can I cancel a monthly gift?

Anytime, from the link in your Zeffy receipt. No calls, no forms.

Other ways to help

Corporate and foundation partners

Sponsor a season of emergency relief, or underwrite the assistance guide. Call (443) 222-1221 and ask for the Executive Director.

Volunteer

Our callbacks are answered by trained program volunteers. If you're patient, organized, and good on the phone, we'd like to talk.

Share the guide

Know someone behind on their bill, or a caregiver whose patient is on home oxygen? Send them utilityadvisor.org/help. It's free, and it might be the most useful thing you forward this year.