BEQUEST LANGUAGE

Planning for the future and creating the legacy you wish to leave is one of the most effective ways to ensure a lasting impact. Making a gift in your will or living trust, known as a bequest, can guarantee that your legacy endures. Your gift may be a specific dollar amount, a percentage of your estate or the remainder after all other provisions are specified.

 

Our federal tax ID number is: 05-0597871

 

Below is suggested language to use when drafting your bequest.

NEXT STEPS 

 

1. Seek the advice of your financial or legal advisor to make arrangements for a gift of any amount to the Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor through your will or other estate planning documents.

 

2.  Alert the Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor of your gift by completing a Letter of Gift Intent. The form can be completed online or downloaded and mailed to the Cancer Support Community.

 

SAMPLE LANGUAGE

 

For an unrestricted gift that allows Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor to determine how to use the funds based on the most pressing needs, use the following language for your will and/or trust:

“I give to Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor, a nonprofit corporation currently located at 2010 Hogback Rd, Suite 3, Ann Arbor, MI or its successor thereto, _________ [written amount or percentage of the estate or description of property] for its unrestricted charitable use and purpose.”

To designate your provision for a particular purpose:

“I give to Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor, a nonprofit corporation currently located at 2010 Hogback Rd, Suite 3, Ann Arbor, MI, _________ [written amount or percentage of the estate or description of property]. This gift should be used for (state purpose) if and so long as Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor determines that the need exists. If Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor shall determine at the outset or at a later time that the need does not exist, or no longer exists or for some reason it is not possible (or prudent) to administer my gift as originally intended, then Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor may, in its sole and uncontrolled discretion, direct the use of my bequest for a purpose related as closely as possible to that stated above.”