Did you ever think you could . . .
- Create income for life while providing a substantial gift to Lafayette College?
- Transfer assets to your heirs with tax savings?
- Increase your income from appreciated stocks and greatly reduce or avoid capital gains tax while making a charitable gift?
- Multiply the gift value of your retirement assets by making a charitable bequest?
- Make a major lifetime gift of real estate while continuing
to use the property for your lifetime?
- Create an endowment fund in your name
or in the name of someone you wish to honor to fund a scholarship
or a program that is meaningful to you?
More and more people are fulfilling their financial
goals and making a meaningful gift to Lafayette through careful estate
planning. This site describes planned giving opportunities available
to you through the Estate Planned Giving office at Lafayette College.
Over 500 alumni(ae) and friends have made Will
Provisions or have established Life-Income Agreements with the College.
This has qualified them for membership in the James
Madison Porter Society, which was established to recognize individuals
who have included Lafayette in their estate plans. The Porter Society Newsletter is published twice annually, featuring articles about members and information about planned giving vehicles.
More than 570 life-income agreements have been established
with the College. Presently over 46 million dollars is invested in life-income
agreements.
Gifts to the Lafayette Annual Fund are a vital part of what creates the atmosphere of innovation and excellence at Lafayette. Each year, thousands of alumni, parents, and friends make contributions to the Annual Fund, which covers approximately 8 percent of ongoing operating costs.
The success of the fund would not be possible without the support of our many generous benefactors. All gifts, regardless of size, play an important role in allowing Lafayette to become the best institution it can be. Remember, your gift is important each and every year.
The Lafayette Annual Fund offers a range of gift and volunteer opportunities to support our vision. We hope you will choose to get involved, and support the College.
Directing your gift:
You may support the Annual Fund with a gift to the area that is important to you and to the College.
Academic Support – Support for academic programs ensures that Lafayette offers a diverse and challenging educational environment, with state of the art facilities and faculty members who are dedicated to teaching and mentoring.
Financial Aid – Your gift for financial aid will allow deserving students, who otherwise may not be able to attend Lafayette, to receive need based grants and academic scholarships.
Student/Faculty Research – Your support will provide stipends for students to collaborate on research projects with faculty members. These research opportunities are one reason why Lafayette has been spotlighted as a national leader in undergraduate research in U.S. News and World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2005.
Student Life – Gifts in support of student life enable Lafayette students to participate in hundreds of residential, cultural, recreational, social, volunteer, athletic, and special-interest programs.
Unrestricted – Support for Immediate Needs – Gifts of this nature enable the College to fund important budgeted needs that are not met by other sources of support. |
