|
What Will Be Your Lifetime Legacy?
You can plan a gift that will fund the future of your community: Fort Dodge, Iowa
Become a member of the Lifetime Legacy Society by establishing a permanent fund with the Fort Dodge Community Foundation and United Way. The following gifting tools offer you attractive, tax advantaged giving options:
- Donor advised funds
- Endowment funds
- Charitable remainder trusts
- Wills and bequests
"Home is where our heart is."
This well known quote reflects our feelings about Fort Dodge or the community where you reside; it's the place where our heart is, and where we have spent a significant part of our lives, raised our families, pursued our careers and developed lasting friendships.
You can give back
The Fort Dodge Community Foundation and United Way provides a way for us to give back to the community which has been so important to us. We all want to see our community thrive and prosper; we want it to become the kind of place where our children may want to return and raise their families.
Create a Lifetime Legacy Gift
A Lifetime Legacy Gift gives you the opportunity to take advantage of attractive tax savings (and tax credits with endowment funds) while giving you the flexibility to direct your charitable dollars to the causes and organizations that interest you. You can support a wide range of community initiatives including the arts, culture, recreation, community beautification/ environment, education, healthcare and human services. You can also support other important community needs or your favorite nonprofit organizations.
Ways to Give
All funds can be started with gifts of:
- Cash
- Stocks, bonds or closely held stock
- Mutual fund shares
- Real estate or personal property
- IRA's or other retirement funds
- Life insurance
- Wills, bequests and gifts through estate plans.
Investing in our community's future
Please consider becoming a member of our Lifetime Legacy Society as a reflection of your interest in investing in our community's future and your assurance of its successful growth and development.
For more information about the Lifetime Legacy Society:
Please call Randy Kuhlman at 515-573-3179
or stop in and see us at our office:
Fort Dodge Community Foundation and United Way
822 Central Avenue, Suite 405,
Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501.
|