- Prepare a will. Only 35% of those who pass away have a valid will. Without a will, you may lose control over your assets and may not be able to specify a guardian for your children.
- Leave a specific dollar amount or a percentage of the assets in your will to Dare to Care Food Bank. Less than 8% of American households have included a bequest to a charity in an estate plan, yet more than 82% make annual charitable gifts.
- Consider using assets for your charitable gift. These include, but are not limited to, stocks, mutual funds, bonds, certificate of deposits and real estate.
- Name Dare to Care Food Bank as a full or partial beneficiary of your pension plan or IRA.
- Purchase a new life insurance policy, naming Dare to Care Food Bank as the owner/beneficiary.
- Name Dare to Care Food Bank as the beneficiary of an existing life insurance policy to include employer provided group term life insurance.
- Consider your legacy or a legacy for a loved one. What at Dare to Care Food Bank makes you especially excited? A planned giving approach may help to support, endow or name that portion of our mission in your memory, or in the memory of a loved one.
- Encourage other supporters of Dare to Care Food Bank to consider using planned giving to support our mission. Your testimonial is a great way to accomplish this.
- Consider making a gift to Dare to Care Food Bank that will allow you to retain a lifelong source of income, with the remainder to support our mission.
- 10. Ask your trusted advisor for financial and legal matters to provide you with ways in which you can consider leaving a legacy at Dare to Care Food Bank. Contact Kate Chandler at 502-736.9416 to coordinate this process.