If you would like to learn more about ways to support your favorite 4-H program through endowments, or ways you can get involved with planned gifts of stocks, bonds, property, or life insurance policies, please contact the Arizona 4-H Youth Foundation at 520-621-7211.
Leave a Legacy Through Your Own
Endowment
No legacy is as satisfying
as that which devotes itself to helping young people grow and live their
dreams. Through an endowment created in the Arizona 4-H Youth Foundation
your legacy can live on through the youth of tomorrow, helping to shape
countless lives and build the leaders of our future. An endowment can
be created through a gift of $10,000 to perpetuate your own legacy or
to honor friends or loved ones. This gift can be made in installments
over a three year period, or through a provision in your estate plan.
Gifts to establish an endowment may be made in cash, or with stocks, bonds,
property, or life insurance policies.
Endowment funds are invested
by the 4-H Foundation Board to provide perpetual support for Arizona?s
4-H program. The endowment principle is preserved in the investment fund
and never spent. Only the interest earned (up to 5% annually) is used
to support 4-H programs, and additional interest earnings help to increase
the value of the endowment fund through prudent management and re-investment.
Over time, endowments in the 4-H Foundation have grown and provided cumulative
support in excess of the initial gift that established these funds!
Endowments truly have
an impact on Arizona 4-H ? they are the gifts that keep on giving! For
information on how you can help 4-H by establishing a perpetual endowment
to provide general support for 4-H, or specific support for scholarships,
county programs, or state-wide activities, please contact the Arizona
4-H Youth Foundation.
Phone: 520-621-7211
Fax: 520-621-1394
E-mail
Mail: P.O. Box 210036
Tucson AZ 85721-0036
An individual may also give the cash value of a paid-up policy irrevocably to the 4-H foundation and receive a tax deduction. The donor retains ownership of the policy and the right to name the beneficiary of the risk amount (the risk amount being the difference between the guaranteed cash value and the face amount.) This program would be appealing to persons who had taken out life insurance in sufficient quantity to idemnify their family responsibilities and, later in life, found that their responsibilities had greatly diminished.
Wills and Bequests
Many people invest in
4-H on a regular basis; however, a number of individuals can not give
to 4-H regularly. Some of them, choose to give in a different way. Wills,
bequests, and other planned giving opportunities can allow these individuals
to make gifts to 4-H, without hurting their cash-flow. In fact, in some
cases -- due to tax benefits -- such gifts can actually improve their
present and future cash flow. (How can I remember
4-H in my will?)
Property
Your real or personal
property can also be bequeathed to the 4-H Foundation, and in ways which
can mutually benefit your estate and 4-H. Present tax laws encourage such
contributions; and you may find that a gift of real estate, securities,
a family business, or works of art would be most suitable for your purposes.
You may instruct that the property be form given, or that it be marketed.