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How
You Can Help
The Brevard Library
Foundation is a non-profit organization and your gifts to it are tax-deductible.
While the typical donation is an outright gift, more substantial amounts
may be structured in a number of ways that may increase your tax benefits
or enhance the effectiveness of your grant.
Outright
Gift or Year-End Giving
By making charitable
gifts during your lifetime, you can take maximum advantage of the charitable
deduction on your income tax return. Lifetime gifts can also reduce
the size of your estate and allow you to see the money put to immediate
use. You can even specify how the Foundation uses your gift. Click Here
to pledge a gift online.
By
Will or Trust
You may choose to leave
a portion of your estate to the Foundation by naming it in your will
or trust. Such a gift may
substantially reduce the amount of tax due on your estate. You can specify
a dollar amount, a particular block of appreciated stock, or a percentage
of your estate. Click
Here to learn more about such bequests.
Life
Insurance
If you make the Library
Foundation the irrevocable beneficiary of a life insurance policy, your
annual premium is tax-deductible. The cash surrender value of an existing
policy is also tax-deductible. Click
Here for more information.
Charitable
Remainder Trust
You can provide for
yourself and your survivors now by making a trust specifying that the
income goes either to yourself or to others for a specified period of
time, or for life, with the principal going to The Brevard Library Foundation
when you or they die. In the case of a gift of low-yield, low basis
securities, such a gift could increase your income for life, provide
substantial future benefit to the Foundation, and memorialize your name
for perpetuity. Click
Here for more information about charitable trusts.
Endowments
Assure that your annual
giving goes on forever! A $2,500
gift to our Foundation's Children's Book Fund can be invested. Each
year, dividends and interest from this fund will be used to provide
the Library with one or more books, in your name, forever!
More
substantial gifts could be used for financing the program of your choice,
now and in the future, suitably memorialized in your name or that of
a loved one. Click
Here if you are interested in making an endowment to
the Library Foundation.
Memorial
Gifts
When a relative or
friend dies and the family asks that you make a contribution to a charity
of choice, it is sometimes hard to decide which charity should receive
the gift. A gift to The Brevard Library Foundation solves the problem,
and the family of the person you are remembering will be informed of
the gift. Click Here
for more information about memorial gifts.
Other
Forms of Giving
Talk to your attorney
or tax advisor about other ways that you may be able to benefit both
the Library Foundation with your generosity, at the same time realizing
tax savings for yourself or your heirs.
More
Information about Gifts to The Library Foundation
If you would like a
representative from The Foundation to contact you to discuss gift options
with you, please Click
Here.
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