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Plan Your Personal Giving
- Step 1
To Give or Not to Give?
- Step 2
How Much to Give?
- Step 3
How Should You Give?
- Step 4
Where Should You Give?
- Step 5
When Should You Give?
- Profiles in Giving
Why Give to a
Community Foundation
Find Your Local
Community Foundation
For Professional Advisors
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Seekers
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Grantmakers
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Step 2
How Much to Give?
Every person and every household has its own standards to determine how much you can give. A 1999 survey by Independent Sector revealed that 70.1% of American households contribute to charity each year. And, the average American household contributes 2.1% of its annual income to charity. A number of resources may be helpful to you.
Giving to charity can be a gift you make today. Gifts of appreciated stock, real estate, and outright gifts of cash are the most common. However, many donors also take the time to plan their giving through their estate through a bequest. And, other forms of planned giving can provide life income to you now, and charitable giving at your death.
Such planned giving "instruments" include charitable remainder trusts and charitable gift annuities. Planned giving can offer both life income and substantive tax benefits. Because specific laws govern their design, it is important to work with you preferred professional advisors. The next step points you in helpful direction.
You might also want to visit New
Tithing Group and use its giving calculator to determine your
possible household donation level based on such factors as income,
expenses (including debt), and investment assets (excluding personal
homes and possessions).
 
Step 3: How Should You Give?
Plan Your
Personal Giving | Why Give
to a Community Foundation
Find Your Local Community Foundation
| For Professional Advisors
Create a WV Nonprofit | Information
for Grant Seekers
West Virginia Statistics | Grantmakers
Membership Forum
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