Plan Your Legacy

Founded in 1946 as Meals for Millions, Freedom from Hunger has more than six decades of proven success in helping families end their own hunger. By contacting us to plan your gift today, you will ensure that families around the world - for generations to come - will have their chance to help themselves. Contact us now by e-mail or telephone Chris Dodson at (530) 758-6200 ext. 1042 or (800) 708-2555.

Benefits of Giving Wisely

We're very pleased that you are interested in supporting Freedom from Hunger. Your generosity will help us serve the world’s poorest families for generations to come. For our part, we encourage you to plan your gift thoughtfully. Now is the time, and this website is the place, to consider what your legacy will be. Your gift can take multiple forms and can help you address a variety of personal financial goals. We're ready to work with you and your advisors to create the gift plan that’s just right for you. We hope the following guide is helpful in comparing your options:


Goals and Benefits

Your Goals

Your Strategy

Your Benefits

Maximize your deduction; simplify the gift.

Use cash to make your gift to Freedom from Hunger.

Eligible for highest income tax, and makes an immediate impact to end hunger for good.

Avoid capital gains liability and an income tax deduction.

Use appreciated securities, instead of cash, to make your gift.

Your tax deduction is based on today’s value of the asset, not what you paid for it, and you pay no capital gains taxes.

Fight chronic hunger in the next generation with a gift that costs you nothing now.

Include a bequest for Freedom from Hunger in your Will or Trust (cash, specific property, or a percentage of the estate).

Fulfill your passion for helping very poor women attain economic self-sufficiency.

Minimize taxes

Name Freedom from Hunger as beneficiary of your retirement plan and annuities. Your loved ones will have to pay income tax & inheritance tax on these assets.

Naming Freedom from Hunger as beneficiary means that no taxes are deducted – whatever is left of your retirement account or annuity is used to end hunger.

Make a very significant difference without diminishing the inheritance of loved ones.

Take-out a new life insurance policy, with Freedom from Hunger as beneficiary, or donate a paid-up policy you no longer need.

Permanently memorialize your determination to help very poor women feed their children and attain self-sufficiency.

Receive income during your lifetime from the assets you give to Freedom from Hunger.

 Make a contribution to our pooled income fund, or create a life-income plan like a charitable remainder annuity trust or a charitable remainder unitrust.

Receive income for your lifetime; receive an income tax deduction; pay no capital gains tax.

Bring self-help solutions to those who are hungry today, and reduce inheritance taxes payable by your heirs.

Create a charitable lead trust to pay income to Freedom from Hunger for a specified number of years, after which the trust is distributed to your heirs.

Jump start your legacy during your lifetime so you can see how your gift is changing lives, and create an appropriate inheritance for your loved ones that saves taxes.



 


Freedom from Hunger
Attention: Chris Dodson
1644 DaVinci Court
Davis, CA 95618
(530) 758-6200 ext. 1042
(800) 708-2555
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