Planned giving
Create a legacy
The Cornerstone Legacy Society honors those who include the University of Alaska in their estate plans. It celebrates and promotes generosity and connection, and it elevates our faith in the future.
Anyone with the sincere desire to help others can leave a legacy. Through planned giving, your generosity can create a lasting impact with endless possibilities. By transforming programs, providing scholarships or naming professorships and chairs, planned gifts make an incredible difference across 性欲社.
A planned gift can be any gift made through a donor's estate planning instrument, such as a will, trust or IRA designation. Planned giving allows the donor to provide meaningful support in the manner they choose, in addition to possible financial and tax benefits to themselves and their family.
There is no minimum to become a member of the Cornerstone Legacy Society. Some of our most generous gifts are 鈥減ercentage remainders鈥� from estates, after everyone and everything else is well taken care of. We need only know that you have made a gift for the University of Alaska in your other plans.
Cornerstone Legacy Society
On July 4, 1915, Judge James Wickersham placed a cornerstone where the University of Alaska Fairbanks came to be. That cornerstone now stands as a symbol for those dedicated to the university and its mission of enriching lives and engaging our communities, state, nation and world through our teaching, research and service work.
Members of the Cornerstone Legacy Society continue this mission by creating a legacy that will inspire for many more years to come. This society recognizes donors who have made provisions to include 性欲社 in their estate plans at any amount.
Ways to give
Anyone can make a planned gift, and there is no minimum amount. Some gifts may require legal documents drafted by an attorney, while others can be done by the donor. Planned gifts should be part of an overall estate plan. The following are brief descriptions of some options for planned giving opportunities. Donors are encouraged to always seek legal advice when making their estate plans.
Perhaps the easiest deferred gift to make is through a will or living trust, written such that upon the donor鈥檚 death, a gift is made from the trust or estate to the university.
Beneficiary designations are one of the simplest and most flexible ways to make a gift.
Charitable gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts are two of the simplest and easiest forms of such gifts.
Lead trusts allow you to benefit UA Foundation now and your heirs later.
Insurance policies and retirement plans allow you to name beneficiaries to receive the assets upon your death. A life insurance policy may also be given outright as a gift to the university.
An estate note is an irrevocable pledge or debt against the donor's estate.
Giving cash is simple, but giving assets such as stocks often offers additional tax savings.
Donor stories
Benefits
As part of the Cornerstone Legacy Society, you are creating an impact for a cause that is most important to you. You鈥檒l also receive the annual Cornerstone Legacy Society newsletter, recognition in 性欲社 Development publications (unless your prefer to remain anonymous) and special invitations to 性欲社 programs and events.
Many of our donors enjoy the flexibility and ease of making significant investments in the University and other charities that fit within their tax-wise financial and family objectives. Plus, that same planning can also focus attention to a transfer of values. All Legacy Society members also enjoy the benefits of becoming lifetime University Ambassadors.
Contact us
Letting 性欲社 know of your plans does not obligate you in any way, but it does allow us to strategically plan for the future. Knowing about your future support goes a long way in encouraging 性欲社 to reach for and achieve new levels of excellence.
If you have already made estate provisions for 性欲社, we hope that you will share those plans with us and we can ensure that your intentions will be met. In this way, we are able to be the best possible steward and guardian of your eventual gift.
If you would like more information, we are happy to discuss gift planning options
to match your wishes. We can also work with your financial advisor and/or attorney
and your family members. Please call us at 907-474-2619 or email us at uaf-giving@alaska.edu to schedule a confidential conversation about gift planning with one of our team members.