Legacy Giving
Placing Choosing Our Roots in Your Will
What is Legacy Giving?
Legacy giving is one name for many options of donating to Choosing Our Roots through your accumulated resources. It may involve financial or estate planning. In general, Legacy Gifts can be made through bequest in a will or trust, charitable gift annuities, or gifts of special assets (real estate, stock, retirement accounts, etc.).
A phenomenal way to support Choosing Our Roots far into the future is to make a planned gift through your will. A bequest in your will can be a set amount of money, a percentage of an estate, or a specified asset.
Gift of real estate or property should be discussed with the board of Choosing Our Roots in advance. Any property bequeathed would likely be sold and the funds set aside for general operating expenses or creating an endowment fund. To honor your full wishes, start this conversation with our Board President.
Gifts of tangible property, such as furniture, can be arranged. Such donations will be reviewed for appropriateness for our programming. If it is deemed that they will not work for us (ex. We may already have too many couches in our storage), they may be sold for profit or donated to another program that needs furniture.
Gifts of life insurance and retirement accounts can be made by making Choosing Our Roots one of your beneficiaries. We are happy to supply you with the EIN or contact information necessary to make that happen.