Many companies set aside funds to support non-profit charities. Your company may have a matching gift program that could multiply your gift. You may even be able to participate if you are a retiree.

Workplace Campaigns
Workplace campaigns, sometimes called workplace employee charitable fund drives, are charitable solicitation programs conducted at places of employment. Most gifts are made in the form of pledges via automatic payroll deduction, where contributions are deducted from an employee's paycheck over the course of the next year or, in some cases one-time contributions.

State and Local Campaigns

Many state and local governments provide workplace-giving programs that allow employees to give to charities through payroll deductions. You may be able to support us through your employer.

 

If a trusted friend told you that they could show you a way to realize a savings of up to 15% on all contributions made to charity, would you believe them? Would you be interested? For years now, donors who have made gifts of appreciated securities (stocks, mutual funds, and bonds) as part of their charitable giving practice have accomplished essentially this. By transferring ownership of appreciated securities, they are able to claim a charitable income tax deduction for its current full market value, but avoid the incurrence of capital gains tax (a rate of as much as 15%) that they would owe if the stock were sold. As you can see, this strategy is an excellent way to leverage your giving in support of the Pregnancy Support Center of Ulster County. If you own stocks or mutual funds that have increased in value and that you have held for more than one year, you too may want to consider using these assets, rather than cash, to fund your giving.

 

 

A charitable gift annuity (CGA) is a way to support the family-strengthening ministries of the Pregnancy Support Center, and receive regular, fixed payments for life. As a simple contract between you and PSC, a CGA allows you to combine three wonderful concepts - a generous charitable contribution, a guaranteed lifetime income source, and favorable tax benefits. In exchange for an irrevocable gift of cash or securities, PSC agrees to pay one or two annuitants a regular, fixed payment for life. Payments are made in annual, semi-annual or quarterly installments. Annuities can be funded with a minimum gift of $5,000 and can begin paying out any time after the youngest annuitant has reached the age of 50.

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A Charitable Remainder Trust can be highly a effective giving tool for individuals who want to sell an appreciated asset, avoid tax on the sale, reinvest the proceeds, live off the income of the reinvested proceeds and ultimately make a generous gift to charity. If you need income for life from an asset but eventually want to give the remainder balance of the asset to charity, a Charitable Remainder Trust could be an ideal giving arrangement for you.

A Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) is a unique trust arrangement through which you can contribute your assets and still retain the right to receive income payments from the assets for a predetermined period of time. At the end of the income interest period, the CRT terminates, and the remaining trust assets are distributed to the charities you have chosen. When you contribute assets to a CRT, you receive a current income tax deduction equal to the present value of the gift the charity will eventually receive when the CRT terminates. Because CRTs are generally tax exempt, appreciated assets can be gifted to a CRT and later sold without you or the trust owing capital gains tax.