How to Make a Planned Gift

Estate Planning and Gift Planning
Estate planners often begin by having their clients complete a detailed checklist about themselves and their interests.

The ABCs of Planned Gifts
A planned gift, as its name suggests, requires planning, and that planning is usually tax planning. The term includes several types of gifts, one of which is the donation of an asset in exchange for an income, usually provided after the asset is put into a charitable trust.

Finding Fulfillment: Make a Personal Plan
Like many people, you may feel overwhelmed with charitable organizations campaigning through the mail.

Discover Your Best Methods of Giving
Your stage in life, your financial circumstances and your charitable goals all affect when, how and to which charitable organizations you make gifts. Because your decision to support us requires such thoughtful consideration, we want to see that your goals are satisfied.

Why You Give and How You Benefit
Cynics would have us believe that people give to charitable organizations, like St. John's University, and support various causes only to save taxes.

How to Plan for a Financially Secure Future
It may reassure you to know that many retirees live comfortably on a lower income than people who work full time.

For additional information on gift planning, contact Susan Damiani, Director of Gift Planning, at (718) 990-7562 or e-mail damianis@stjohns.edu