Planned Giving: Make a Lasting Impact
At DESC, we are dedicated to ending homelessness and supporting our most vulnerable neighbors. Our Planned Giving Program offers you the opportunity to make a profound and enduring difference by including DESC in your long-term financial planning.
Through planned giving, you can help ensure that DESC continues to provide essential services, innovative solutions, and compassionate care to those in need, creating a legacy of hope and transformation for generations to come.
What is Planned Giving?
Make a significant impact
- Planned giving is a method of donating to a charity or cause through a financial arrangement that allows you to make a significant impact while potentially receiving tax benefits. It involves incorporating charitable contributions into your long-term financial and estate planning, often through vehicles like bequests, retirement plans, life insurances, or qualified charitable distributions.
- This approach enables you to support organizations like DESC in a meaningful way, often by leveraging assets or income streams. Planned giving allows you to create a lasting legacy that reflects your values and commitment to making a difference by reinvesting back into our community for years to come.
Why Choose Planned Giving?
Create a better future for your community
- By including DESC in your planned giving, you have the unique opportunity to create a legacy that reflects your values and unwavering commitment to ending homelessness. Your generous contribution to ending homelessness will provide our neighbors with essential services, housing, and support.
- Planned giving ensures that your dedication to helping the most vulnerable members of our community continues to make a difference for generations to come.
Support the future
- Your future commitment will allow us the financial ability and flexibility to invest in projects beyond what our annual operating budget allows, ensuring that we can continue to provide housing, healthcare, and supportive services to our community and clients.
- With a planned gift, we can undertake innovative initiatives and invest in our programs to better meet the diverse needs of those we serve and by pledging your support you help us maintain and grow our efforts to address the multifaceted challenges faced by those experiencing homelessness
Reinvest in your community
- A planned gift can help address social inequalities and promote a more equitable society. By reinvesting in your community, you have the power to create opportunities for others and pave the way for a brighter future for our neighbors who deserve access to health, safety, and a place to call home. Your thoughtful contribution can make a profound difference, helping to bridge gaps and provide essential resources to those in need.
- When you choose to make a planned gift, you are taking a stand against social injustice and inequality. Your support helps us address the root causes of homelessness and poverty, providing comprehensive solutions that promote long-term stability and well-being. By ensuring access to safe housing, you offer individuals and families a foundation upon which they can build their lives.
The importance of giving back: leveraging generational wealth
- Generational wealth offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact. By using your resources to support DESC, you can address systemic issues, such as the lack of affordable housing, and contribute to the well-being of future generations. Giving back through planned giving not only honors the legacy of those who came before but also ensures a brighter future for those who will come after.
- This act of generosity helps break the cycle of poverty and homelessness, creating a ripple effect of positive change and strengthening the fabric of our community.
- Your support enables us to provide essential services, from housing and healthcare to comprehensive support systems, fostering long-term stability and growth for individuals and families in need.
Receive tax benefits
- Planned gifts can offer significant tax advantages, helping you maximize the impact of your donation while providing financial benefits for you and your family during your lifetime and for your surviving loved ones afterward.
- This means that not only does your generous contribution support DESC’s mission to end homelessness and provide essential services, but it also allows you to preserve more of your wealth for your loved ones.
- *Please consult your accountant or financial advisor to better understand the specific tax benefits associated with various planned gifts and how they can be applied to your personal financial situation.
Here are some types of donations you can use to make a current or future gift to support our programs, clients, and community at DESC:
Want to give but not sure how? Reach out to Kenny Fox, our Major & Planned Giving Officer, here at DESC at kfox3@desc.org or at (206) 209-6065.
When you leave a gift through planned giving, you become a part of something bigger. Investing in our community and our neighbors ensures that our programs not only serve our community today, but far into the future.
Planned gifts offer significant tax advantages, helping you maximize your donation’s impact while benefiting your family both now and in the future. Your contribution supports DESC’s mission and supports giving back to our community.
We invite you to involve your family in this conversation, creating a culture and legacy of philanthropy for the next generation.
We invite you to join us in this transformative initiative! Your commitment to this work can help create a more supported, resilient, and equitable community.
You can give a planned gift at any time that is convenient to you, today, in the near future, or in years to come. Please keep DESC in mind when participating in future planning.