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leave a legacy of generosity
There are multiple ways to ensure that the spirit of generosity you have espoused during your lifetime carries on and helps families have simple, decent places to live for years to come through The Fuller Center for Housing.
Planned Giving Opportunities
When you decide to include The Fuller Center for Housing in your will, you make the ultimate gift. A gift by will or bequest is deductible for estate tax purposes. Complete details
Receive guaranteed payments for life while being freed from managing funds that you intend to eventually give away — and get substantial tax savings. Complete details
With a gift of appreciated securities or mutual fund shares that you’ve owned for more than one year, you can get a tax deduction and avoid capital gains taxes. Complete details
Donating real property (such as your home, vacation property, vacant land, farmland, ranch or commercial property) can help you avoid paying capital gains taxes. Complete details
A unique and flexible way to give cash, securities, real estate, commodities, or anything on which a fair market value can be placed. You get a tax deduction now and make charitable disbursements later while insuring level giving between high-income and lower-income years. Complete details
Involve multiple generations of your family with an ongoing endowment fund in which contributions are invested for the long term. Your name — or any name you choose — is attached to the fund, and only investment income from the fund is distributed. Complete details
A life income plan life income plan allows you to make a gift to charity and get income from the assets you donate. After your death, the balance goes to The Fuller Center and other approved charities based on your recommendations. Complete details
Excellent for assets that may take some time to sell. You make a gift of the actual asset to our partners at Mennonite Foundation for the benefit of The Fuller Center. You may give the entire asset or any percentage. The foundation finds a buyer for your gift asset and converts it to cash. We then provide you with income from your gift for the rest of your life as long as the trust generates income. Complete details
You can reduce your self-employment tax while giving gifts of grain, livestock – even honey. Complete details
REDUCE TAX LIABILITY
FOR IRA DISTRIBUTIONS
If you’ve reached the age that requires you to begin making minimum distributions from your retirement account, there is a way to reduce your taxable liability. Speak with your tax advisor about making a tax-free Qualified Charitable Distribution directly to The Fuller Center from your retirement account. Here’s something that we can all win at!
Testimonials
“What better legacy could I have than for the money I leave to be used to improve the lives of other people? The Fuller Center provides an excellent vehicle to do that.”
“Having The Fuller Center for Housing in my will made spiritual and economic sense to me as a Christian. My wife and I can’t take our money with us, and there’s no place like home!"
"We know that The Fuller Center will use our bequest in building homes for poor families, and those families can concentrate on making a better life for their children. We want to assure that we are helping realize Millard’s dream of safe and decent homes for all of God’s people.”
"Millard and I discovered how our lives could be enriched by giving to those in need. In this way, everyone is blessed — both the giver and the receiver. I wholeheartedly desire for this legacy to live on for my children, grandchildren and acquaintances and donors to The Fuller Center.”
"We feel rich in memories, and want the work to continue after we’re gone. We want to name the Fuller Center in our will because it makes such a difference in people’s lives; both the person receiving the house and those who are working on it.”
"Millard Fuller’s legacy inspires me to leave a legacy of my own — one that can do so much good because it is a gift that will keep on giving as families make their affordable mortgage payments that will be grouped with new donations to help make other families’ dreams for simple decent housing possible.”
"I feel very, very strongly about Millard Fuller, doing what he did with his life. Through all these years, I supported him, I support Linda and the program that’s been a blessing in my life to be able to give back to folks who’ve never, ever dreamed of having a home.”
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