Matching Gift Program

Does your employer offer matching gift donations? Corporations will often match the amount of your donation to a specified charity. A matching gift from your employer can double or even triple the value of your gift. You may request information for a matching donation through your employer.

Real Estate

Gifts of real estate are like gifts of appreciated stock. Assuming you have owned the property for more than one year, you may deduct as a charitable contribution the fair market value of the real estate while avoiding capital gains taxes.  

Insurance

Life insurance is a unique way to provide donations to a charity. To qualify, the charity needs to become the owner or beneficiary.

Effective Ways You Can Help the Lifetime Literacy Foundation

In order to help the Lifetime Literacy Foundation more effectively, LLF suggests the following ways in which our donors can provide financial support.

A Lasting Gift
Have you considered including the Lifetime Literacy Foundation in your will? A will is an expression of your commitment to what you deem important in your life. As a supporter of the Lifetime Literacy Foundation, a bequest in your will ensures that children throughout the country will receive books and that literacy programs will be developed to improve success. Giving the gift of reading will continue after you are gone.
Suggested wording for a bequest:
“I give and bequeath to the Lifetime Literacy Foundation, a California not-for-profit corporation,                       % of the residue of my estate (or the sum of $                    ) for its charitable purposes.

You can also make a special gift by sponsoring a program this year. Please contact the Lifetime Literacy Foundation office for further information.

You may send your contribution to:   

Lifetime Literacy Foundation
PMA, The Independent Book Publishers Association
627 Aviation Way
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

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Appreciated Stocks/Assets

The gift of an asset, often common stock or mutual fund shares is a valuable way to make a contribution to a charitable organization and receive tax benefits based on the value of the assets. Gifts of appreciated assets involve stock or other marketable assets and can be utilized as potential gifts with tax benefits.

Planned Giving

This is a creative way to contribute to the work of the Lifetime Literacy Foundation. Planned giving can involve contributing through your will, insurance policy, or retirement assets. Also, it can be a way to make a donation and provide an income for yourself; a charitable trust is one example.

Support Made Easier - EFT

Electronic Funds Transfer is a convenient way to make monthly contributions. Now, you can have your contribution automatically withdrawn from your bank account.