Library Endowment Opportunities

Outright Gifts
Tax-deductible gifts of any size or multi-year pledges to the Endowment Fund provide immediate benefit. Gifts of real estate, vehicles, securities, and life insurance will similarly help the Library and provide a tax deduction. In most cases of appreciated assets, the deduction will be for the full market value, with elimination of capital gains taxes.

Matching Gifts
Many companies match employee charitable contributions. Please check with your company when making a gift to the Library.

Retirement Plan Assets
You may designate the Library as a beneficiary of retirement plan assets.

Bequests
It is as easy as adding a sentence or two to your will or living trust to name the Library as a beneficiary. A gift in your will or trust helps ensure our future growth.

Major Gift Recognition
Names of supporters are placed on a bronze plaque in the main reading room:
          Benefactor          $100,000+
          Patron                  $50,000+
          Sponsor                $25,000+
          Donor                   $15,000+

Names of additional supoorters are placed on decorative wood book spines in the main reading room:
          Classic Giver           $5,000+

We encourage all interested people to discuss individual circumstances with legal and/or financial advisors. Creative planning involving an endowment may enable you to achieve personal and estate planning objectives.

All gifts to the Endowment Fund should be designated as such. Other Library fundraising efforts are directed to specific needs, and are not part of the Endowment Fund. A gift to the Endowment Fund will be a permanent investment in the future of our community. We hope you will be a part of that investment.

For more information or if you have any questions, please call Deborah Mazzolini, Library Director, at 415-789-2660.