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Plan Your Giving
Planned Giving is simply planning to make a difference with a charitable gift. Planned gifts can be made with cash, but many planned gifts are made by donating assets such as stocks or real estate. Planned gifts can provide valuable tax benefits and/or lifetime income for you and your spouse or other loved one. The most common planned gifts are bequests made through your will. Other popular planned gifts include charitable trusts and charitable gift annuities.
Below are brief descriptions of common planned gifts:
Bequests: Bequests are the easiest form of charitable estate planning and enable you to name Seeds of Hope in your will.
Corporate Matching Gifts: Many businesses have matching gift programs that will multiply contributions by two, three or even four times the amount of a donation. If your employer has a matching gift program we urge you to take advantage of it. Since they are available from contributing firms each year, matching gifts can be a great boost to your regular giving.
Donor Advised Funds: The donor creates this fund for charitable purposes and receives tax benefits. The donor can then advise the fund about which charitable organizations should receive a grant from the fund.
Gifts of Life Insurance Plans and Retirement Accounts: These can be gifts of old or new life insurance plans or retirement accounts by naming Seeds of Hope as a beneficiary, and help guarantee a future gift to Seeds of Hope.
Life Income Gifts: Life income gifts such as gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts allow you to make a gift of cash or appreciated property to Seeds of Hope.
Real Estate Gifts: You can help us fulfill our mission by a donation of real property, either in full or with a retained life estate.
Securities: Gifts of stock – especially long-term appreciated stocks – provide benefits to Seeds of Hope while also benefiting you. To make a stock gift and transfer, contact your broker and provide them with the Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust account number which is 80130604. Please reference DTC Clearing 0164, Code 40. After you have finalized plans for a stock gift and transfer, please notify us of the gift by contacting Justin Zuiker, Development Manager, at 303.715.3186 or email at justinz@seedsofhopetrust.org. This will help to ensure a prompt acknowledgement of your generosity. We will respect a donor’s request for anonymity.
We would be happy to talk with you more about these options. Please contact us for more information.