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Many Audubon Canyon Ranch (ACR) donors
have included ACR in their estate plans. They have done so knowing that their future gift,
like ACR itself, will become a permanent resource, supporting
year after year some of the most beautiful and productively used
nature preserves in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It's easy
to provide a lasting gift to ACR, by naming ACR as a beneficiary:
----- in your will or living trust;
----- in your retirement plan or bank account;
----- in your life insurance policy;
----- in a charitable remainder trust;
----- in ACR's Pooled Income Fund
You can, for example, transfer cash, stock, or real estate to a charitable trust which you create and which distributes annual payments to you for life. This trust will never pay capital gains tax on the sale of appreciated assets, gives you an immediate charitable
income tax deduction,
and provides a future gift to ACR’s Endowment.
ACR can
provide you with a confidential analysis of the tax and income
benefits of a charitable
trust, life estate agreement, or pooled income fund. One of these
powerful philanthropic tools may allow you to realize important
family and financial objectives during life, then make a lasting
gift to the Ranch.
What about
your heirs? ACR is not
asking you to disinherit family or friends. Even a small portion
of an estate can make tremendously difference to ACR. Consider
a donor who contributes $500 a year to the Ranch now. Setting
aside $10,000 of his or her total estate in a charitable bequest
for ACR’s endowment would easily continue the $500 annual
gift indefinitely, with room for growth of principal. $10,000
is a large gift, but very likely a small portion of a total estate.
It took
vision to create Audubon Canyon Ranch more than three decades ago. Vision remains essential
in order to ensure the revenue to maintain ACR’s preserves,
expand its educational and research programs, and keep ACR one
of the most influential environmental resources in the Bay Area.
A gift
during life or at death to ACR’s permanent endowment will
be a testament to your vision, and an enduring legacy benefiting
the Ranch for years to come.
For information on bequests,
charitable trusts, pooled income fund contributions and other
planned giving techniques call ACR’s
development office at 415-868-9244,
OR -----Fill out the form below and press the "submit" button, which
will send us information electronically. Upon receipt, we will
send you any information you have requested. (Please note that ACR
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