Legacy gifts represent a special way to provide long term support for the National AIDS Memorial Grove. By including the Grove in your will, living trust, retirement plan and life insurance beneficiary designations, or other types of legacy gifts, you help ensure that the Grove will always be here as a place of hope and remembrance beyond your own lifetime.

The easiest and most common type of planned gift is naming the National AIDS Memorial Grove in your will as a bequest provision. Using this method you may specify an asset, an amount of money, a percentage of your estate, or a variety of other designations. Other types of planned gifts include direct gifts of securities, life insurance policies, IRAs, or real estate that can benefit the Grove and also serve the needs of the giver.

Because there are so many ways build charitable giving into an estate plan, it is always best to seek professional advice from your lawyer, financial advisor, or a professional estate planner. To begin any planned gift, think of all the people to whom you are close, as well as organizations such as the Grove that you would like to support, and determine what you would like to provide for each. Then, when you visit a professional estate planner or other advisor, they will help you accomplish your goals by utilizing the best techniques to comply with the laws and to reduce taxes.

Legacy gifts to the Grove offer a way for you to achieve your financial and philanthropic objectives while leaving a legacy for the future by making certain that the years of work spent creating this special place in nature and the people that are honored here will not be forgotten.

• Legal Name: National AIDS Memorial Grove, a project of The Tides Center
• Federal Tax I.D. #: 94-3213100
• IRS Tax Determination Letter (PDF Format)
• Sample Bequest Language