How Do You Make a Big Difference?
One Small Gift At a Time.

How to Direct Your Gift

AWC has options for you to direct your giving, according to what is most meaningful to you. Our default fund is the General Agape Fund – this gives us the most flexibility to put your gift where it is most needed at the time. The majority of our annual budget comes from the General Agape Fund, and we are able to take from the General Fund in order to give to the Dymphna and Ladder Funds at our discretion. In other words, the General Agape Fund is our default, because it could be our sole fund.

The St. Dymphna Fund is strictly set aside for the clients in financial need, and is used only to pay for mental health care-related expenses rendered by AWC-Affiliated Providers. Rather than refer them to a non-Orthodox therapist, we supplement what they have and match them with an AWC-Affiliated Provider.

The General Agape Fund

Agape Wellness Collective is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity. We are proudly a pan-Orthodox organization, and are growing rapidly. All of your gifts go directly to advancing our mission: To help people connect with and afford services with Orthodox Christian mental health providers. We’re accomplishing this through our Root & Table Support Groups, finding individuals, couples, and families excellent and personalized matches for providers that meet their budgets, supporting our AWC-Affiliated Providers through monthly Peer Consultation Groups, and looking toward the future with ambitious and Spirit-led planning as we assess and respond to the needs we see.

But AWC is not just providing affordable and accessible mental health care through Orthodox therapists. We’re building a movement. We’re starting conversations. We’re changing the game. We’re challenging you to rethink what an Orthodox approach to mental health looks like.

(And here’s a hint: It takes communion.)

The St. Dymphna Fund

The St. Dymphna Fund was established to support people in need that come to Agape Wellness Collective to inquire about counseling with an Orthodox Christian therapist.
Representing about 10-15% of our clients, these folks typically:

Do not have insurance/ are underinsured, OR
Have Medicare/ Medicaid, OR
Have prohibitively high deductibles, AND
Can’t afford to pay out-of-pocket

(Many can pay less than $20/ week!)

Without your support, these clients would not be able to receive mental health care with an Orthodox therapist. Many times, they struggle to receive mental health care at all. This fund is at the heart of our mission – as Orthodox Christians, we must recall the words of Christ in Matthew 25: “Whatever you do for the least of these, you do for Me.” When we learn our brothers and sisters struggling to receive mental health care, we are called to minister to them from our own excess.

“The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked…The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.”
– St. Basil the Great

About St. Dymphna

St. Dymphna, also known as St. Daphne, was an early-church saint, killed by her own father, who himself struggled deeply with mental health issues. She is widely revered as the patron saint of those struggling with mental health concerns, those who help them, people going through domestic abuse, and other related issues. She is one of the patron saints of Agape Wellness Collective (along with St. Jude the Apostle, patron of impossible causes, and St. Irene Chrysovalantou).

St. Dymphna, Pray For Us!

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AWC’s Impact By the Numbers

Last Updated: January 31, 2026

41
Number of US States Our Clients Are In
(+DC & 6 other countries)
300+
Number of Clients Served
(Since Feb. 26, 2025)
47
Number of US States Covered by AWC-Affiliated Providers
70+
Number of AWC-Affiliated Providers
52%
Clients Referred by Friends, Family, or Parish
(1 in 4 through the Church)

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