Employer Match Ask your employer if it will match your charitable donations. If so, request an Employer Matching Funds Form from your employer and double your financial contribution to the GLA.
Insurance Policy Names the nonprofit as primary beneficiary of a life-insurance policy.
Appreciated Securities and Real Estate
If the donor has stock or real estate that has increased in value and they have held the stock or real estate for more than a year, the donor receives a charitable deduction for the full fair-market value of the gift and escapes any potential tax on the capital-gain element in the gifted securities or real estate. Shares need to be transferred to your organization. Set up an account with a stock brokerage house. (Note: when considering a gift of property that has gone down in value, a donor would be better off to sell the property to realize a deductible loss and then contribute the proceeds to the nonprofit and obtain a charitable deduction.)
