Planned Giving
Your Legacy Can Nourish Generations
A gift to Harvesters through your estate plans is more than a charitable contribution—it’s a meaningful way to carry your commitment to fighting hunger into the future. Planned giving offers several ways to make a lasting difference while potentially providing financial and tax benefits for you and your loved ones.
Whether you’re beginning to explore planned giving or have already included Harvesters in your plans, we’re here to help you find an option that feels right for you. Your generosity can help Harvesters continue nourishing lives and strengthening communities for generations to come.
If you’ve included Harvesters in your estate plans, please complete our brief form to tell us about your intended gift. Sharing this information allows us to thank you, better understand your wishes and welcome you as a member of the Seeds of Harvest Society. Members receive special updates about Harvesters’ programs, innovations and ongoing work to address hunger throughout our region.
We’d be honored to be part of your legacy. To learn more about planned giving, please contact Krystalle Wheeler at kwheeler@harvesters.org or (816) 929-3259.
Bequests
A bequest is a common and simple way to leave a planned gift to Harvesters through your estate plan or will. There are four ways to leave a bequest:
- Specific Bequest: Designate the amount of money or specific asset (property, securities, etc.) you wish to give.
- Percentage Bequest: Designate the percentage of your estate you wish to give.
- Residuary Bequest: Instruct that any remaining part of your estate be given to Harvesters after distributions are made to family and loved ones.
- Contingent Bequest: Instruct that Harvesters receives assets in the event that a beneficiary in your will is no longer living.
Here is some sample bequest language:
“I give and bequeath the sum of $____ (or _____% of my estate) to Harvesters to be used in support of its general philanthropic purposes.”
Trusts
Do you have appreciated property and want to save on taxes while planning for retirement? A Charitable Remainder Unitrust can do that for you and provide a donation to Harvesters at the same time. With a Charitable Lead Trust, you transfer cash or appreciated property to a trust, which makes payments to Harvesters for a period of time after which the assets of the trust are transferred to your beneficiaries. These trusts are particularly useful for managing capital gains and gift taxes for assets that have appreciated in value
Gift Annuities
Make an annuity gift now and receive a lifetime income for yourself or a designated loved one in exchange for a gift of cash, stock or securities. Upon your death, the gift remainder supports Harvesters.
Appreciated Stock
A gift of appreciated stock (held more than one year) makes an excellent donation both for you and for Harvesters. The gift is deductible at its fair market value, and you avoid all capital gains taxes on the increase in value while receiving a charitable tax deduction.
Retirement
Your retirement or pension plans can help Harvesters fight hunger. Funds beyond the comfortable support of yourself or loved ones may be given to Harvesters and can offer charitable tax benefits to you.
Life Insurance
You may also feed hungry people well into the future by naming Harvesters as a beneficiary of any individual or group life insurance policy. You will receive an estate tax deduction for insurance proceeds that go to Harvesters upon your death.
Where Values Become Legacy
Joanna Sebelien
Seeds of Harvest
Society Members
Ann Marie McManus
Joanna Sebelien
Paula Pratt
Mary McClure
Karen Haren
Kimberly Svaty
Rich and Theresas Jones
Lawrence H. Ward
Mark and Julie Nauser
Wesley Fields
Contact Us
For more information, please contact Krystalle Wheeler at kwheeler@harvesters.org or (816) 929-3259.
Please Note: This information is provided for informational purposes only. As with any decision involving your financial or estate plans, we strongly advise you to seek the advice of your financial advisor for your estate planning. Thank you for considering a legacy of fighting hunger through Harvesters.