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Elements of Charitable Planned Gifts – Charitable Gift Annuities

by   |  01.03.12  |  planned giving

This week I want to start a short series of posts on some of the ways you can make a gift to ACU or most other non-profits without tapping your bank account.  We call these types of gifts “planned gifts” because they take more planning and thought than just reaching for your checkbook or pulling the credit card out of your wallet.

The planned giving work we do with each of our donor families attempts to accomplish at least one of the three things we have written on the sidebar of this blog under the heading “Who We Are”.  Planned gifts can be a part of your estate plan.  They can be vehicles for making gifts that are transformative to you as well as to the University.  They can be a great way to pass on your legacy to future generations.

And all of these things can happen without, generally speaking, taking cash out of your pocket.  In many cases, planned charitable gifts are not just one-way gifts to your favorite non-profit.  They can actually give back something tangible to you and your family.  The first post in this series on the elements of charitable planned gifts talks about just such an instrument.

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