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  • Outright gift of cash
    • By making a cash gift by check, credit card or money order today, you enable us to meet our most urgent needs and carry out our mission daily.
       
  • Outright gift of appreciated securities
    • When you donate securities to the Emerald Youth Foundation, you receive the same income tax savings that you would if you wrote us a check, but with the added benefit of eliminating capital gains taxes on the transfer. Making a gift of securities to support our mission is as easy as instructing your broker to transfer the shares.
       
  • Donor advised fund
    • A donor advised fund is like a charitable savings account, but which is managed by a nonprofit organization. You can contribute to the account, which grows tax-free. You can recommend, but not direct, how much and how often you want to distribute you want to distribute money from that fund to the Emerald Youth Foundation or other charities.
       
  • Gift in will or living trust
    • A charitable bequest is one or two sentences in your will or living trust that leave the Emerald Youth Foundation a specific item, an amount of money, a gift contingent upon certain events or a percentage of your estate. See sample language.
       
  • Beneficiary designations
    • A beneficiary designation clearly identifies how specific assets will be distributed after your death. Just name the Emerald Youth Foundation as a beneficiary to receive assets such as retirement plans and life insurance policies after you’re gone. You can review and adjust beneficiary designations anytime you want, which makes this approach an easy way to give.
       

 

  • Outright gift of cash
    • By making a cash gift by check, credit card or money order today, you enable us to meet our most urgent needs and carry out our mission daily.
       
  • Outright gift of appreciated securities
    • When you donate securities to the Emerald Youth Foundation, you receive the same income tax savings that you would if you wrote us a check, but with the added benefit of eliminating capital gains taxes on the transfer. Making a gift of securities to support our mission is as easy as instructing your broker to transfer the shares.
       
  • Donor advised fund
    • A donor advised fund is like a charitable savings account, but which is managed by a nonprofit organization. You can contribute to the account, which grows tax-free. You can recommend, but not direct, how much and how often you want to distribute you want to distribute money from that fund to the Emerald Youth Foundation or other charities.
       
  • Gift in will or living trust
    • A charitable bequest is one or two sentences in your will or living trust that leave the Emerald Youth Foundation a specific item, an amount of money, a gift contingent upon certain events or a percentage of your estate. See sample language.
       
  • Beneficiary designations
    • A beneficiary designation clearly identifies how specific assets will be distributed after your death. Just name the Emerald Youth Foundation as a beneficiary to receive assets such as retirement plans and life insurance policies after you’re gone. You can review and adjust beneficiary designations anytime you want, which makes this approach an easy way to give.
       

 

  • Outright gift of appreciated securities
    • When you donate securities to the Emerald Youth Foundation, you receive the same income tax savings that you would if you wrote us a check, but with the added benefit of eliminating capital gains taxes on the transfer. Making a gift of securities to support our mission is as easy as instructing your broker to transfer the shares.
       
  • Gift in will or living trust
    • A charitable bequest is one or two sentences in your will or living trust that leave the Emerald Youth Foundation a specific item, an amount of money, a gift contingent upon certain events or a percentage of your estate. See sample language.
       
  • Beneficiary designations
    • A beneficiary designation clearly identifies how specific assets will be distributed after your death. Just name the Emerald Youth Foundation as a beneficiary to receive assets such as retirement plans and life insurance policies after you’re gone. You can review and adjust beneficiary designations anytime you want, which makes this approach an easy way to give.
       
  • Outright gift of real estate
    • When you make a gift today of real estate you have owned longer than one year, you qualify for a federal income tax charitable deduction equal to the property’s full fair market value. This deduction lets you reduce the cost of making the gift and frees cash that otherwise would have been used to pay taxes. By donating the property to Emerald Youth, you also eliminate capital gains tax on its appreciation.
       
  • Charitable remainder trust
    • A charitable remainder trust provides you or other named individuals income each year for life or a period not exceeding 20 years from assets you give to the trust you create.
       
  • Charitable lead trust
    • You give assets to a trust that pays the Emerald Youth Foundation set payments for a number of years, which you choose. The longer the length of time, the better the potential tax savings to you. When the term is up, the remaining trust assets go to you, your family or other beneficiaries you select. This is an excellent way to transfer property to family members at a minimal cost.
       

 

  • Outright gift of appreciated securities
    • When you donate securities to the Emerald Youth Foundation, you receive the same income tax savings that you would if you wrote us a check, but with the added benefit of eliminating capital gains taxes on the transfer. Making a gift of securities to support our mission is as easy as instructing your broker to transfer the shares.
       
  • Gift in will or living trust
    • A charitable bequest is one or two sentences in your will or living trust that leave the Emerald Youth Foundation a specific item, an amount of money, a gift contingent upon certain events or a percentage of your estate. See sample language.
       
  • Beneficiary designations
    • A beneficiary designation clearly identifies how specific assets will be distributed after your death. Just name the Emerald Youth Foundation as a beneficiary to receive assets such as retirement plans and life insurance policies after you’re gone. You can review and adjust beneficiary designations anytime you want, which makes this approach an easy way to give.
       
  • Outright gift of real estate
    • When you make a gift today of real estate you have owned longer than one year, you qualify for a federal income tax charitable deduction equal to the property’s full fair market value. This deduction lets you reduce the cost of making the gift and frees cash that otherwise would have been used to pay taxes. By donating the property to Emerald Youth, you also eliminate capital gains tax on its appreciation.
       
  • Charitable remainder trust
    • A charitable remainder trust provides you or other named individuals income each year for life or a period not exceeding 20 years from assets you give to the trust you create.
       
  • Charitable lead trust
    • You give assets to a trust that pays the Emerald Youth Foundation set payments for a number of years, which you choose. The longer the length of time, the better the potential tax savings to you. When the term is up, the remaining trust assets go to you, your family or other beneficiaries you select. This is an excellent way to transfer property to family members at a minimal cost.
       

Assets

 

  • Outright gift of cash
    • By making a cash gift by check, credit card or money order today, you enable us to meet our most urgent needs and carry out our mission daily.
       
  • Gift in will or living trust
    • A charitable bequest is one or two sentences in your will or living trust that leave the Emerald Youth Foundation a specific item, an amount of money, a gift contingent upon certain events or a percentage of your estate. See sample language.
       
  • Donor advised fund
    • A donor advised fund is like a charitable savings account, but which is managed by a nonprofit organization. You can contribute to the account, which grows tax-free. You can recommend, but not direct, how much and how often you want to distribute you want to distribute money from that fund to the Emerald Youth Foundation or other charities.
       
  • Gift in will or living trust
    • A charitable bequest is one or two sentences in your will or living trust that leave the Emerald Youth Foundation a specific item, an amount of money, a gift contingent upon certain events or a percentage of your estate. See sample language.
       
  • Charitable remainder trust
    • A charitable remainder trust provides you or other named individuals income each year for life or a period not exceeding 20 years from assets you give to the trust you create.
       
  • Charitable lead trust
    • You give assets to a trust that pays the Emerald Youth Foundation set payments for a number of years, which you choose. The longer the length of time, the better the potential tax savings to you. When the term is up, the remaining trust assets go to you, your family or other beneficiaries you select. This is an excellent way to transfer property to family members at a minimal cost.
       

 

  • Beneficiary designations
    • A beneficiary designation clearly identifies how specific assets will be distributed after your death. Just name the Emerald Youth Foundation as a beneficiary to receive assets such as retirement plans and life insurance policies after you’re gone. You can review and adjust beneficiary designations anytime you want, which makes this approach an easy way to give.
       
  • Donor advised fund
    • A donor advised fund is like a charitable savings account, but which is managed by a nonprofit organization. You can contribute to the account, which grows tax-free. You can recommend, but not direct, how much and how often you want to distribute you want to distribute money from that fund to the Emerald Youth Foundation or other charities.
       
  • Charitable remainder trust
    • A charitable remainder trust provides you or other named individuals income each year for life or a period not exceeding 20 years from assets you give to the trust you create.
       

 

  • Beneficiary designations
    • A beneficiary designation clearly identifies how specific assets will be distributed after your death. Just name the Emerald Youth Foundation as a beneficiary to receive assets such as retirement plans and life insurance policies after you’re gone. You can review and adjust beneficiary designations anytime you want, which makes this approach an easy way to give.
       

 

  • Outright gift of real estate
    • When you make a gift today of real estate you have owned longer than one year, you qualify for a federal income tax charitable deduction equal to the property’s full fair market value. This deduction lets you reduce the cost of making the gift and frees cash that otherwise would have been used to pay taxes. By donating the property to Emerald Youth, you also eliminate capital gains tax on its appreciation.
       
  • Gift in will or living trust
    • A charitable bequest is one or two sentences in your will or living trust that leave the Emerald Youth Foundation a specific item, an amount of money, a gift contingent upon certain events or a percentage of your estate. See sample language.
       
  • Charitable remainder trust
    • A charitable remainder trust provides you or other named individuals income each year for life or a period not exceeding 20 years from assets you give to the trust you create.
       
  • Charitable lead trust
    • You give assets to a trust that pays the Emerald Youth Foundation set payments for a number of years, which you choose. The longer the length of time, the better the potential tax savings to you. When the term is up, the remaining trust assets go to you, your family or other beneficiaries you select. This is an excellent way to transfer property to family members at a minimal cost.
       

 

  • Outright gift or bargain sale
    • You can sell Emerald Youth your property for less than the fair market value of the item. For example, if you sell us an antique for $25,000 that is worth $50,000, you will receive a federal income tax charitable deduction of $25,000 plus the payment from Emerald Youth of $25,000.
       
  • Gift in will or living trust
    • A charitable bequest is one or two sentences in your will or living trust that leave the Emerald Youth Foundation a specific item, an amount of money, a gift contingent upon certain events or a percentage of your estate. See sample language.
       
  • Charitable remainder trust
    • A charitable remainder trust provides you or other named individuals income each year for life or a period not exceeding 20 years from assets you give to the trust you create.
       
  • Charitable lead trust
    • You give assets to a trust that pays the Emerald Youth Foundation set payments for a number of years, which you choose. The longer the length of time, the better the potential tax savings to you. When the term is up, the remaining trust assets go to you, your family or other beneficiaries you select. This is an excellent way to transfer property to family members at a minimal cost.