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Transformational Vision:
Planned Giving & Endowment
Core Programs
Guide Dogs of Hawaii’s existence is intricately tied to the support of the broader community. Your financial investments are not just crucial, but they are the lifeblood that enables us to continue implementing our state-of-the-art programs that ensure BVI individuals can excel in school, find meaningful employment, and age with dignity. With your support, we can ensure that our successful journey continues for many decades to come.
The following endowment vehicles empower you to become a partner in granting independence for generations of GDH clients. These instruments magnify your impact over the long term and could provide you with significant financial benefits in the short term. Please review the options below to see how your gift today can drive our transformational vision far into the future and join others in leaving a legacy of possibilities.
Jeanne Lujan Torres
Executive Director
- Endowment Funds – gifted for GDH ‘s unrestricted use, usually in perpetuity and customarily named in honor or memory of the donors. Although these gifts can be developed through gifts during a contributor’s lifetime, they are generally received through bequests in wills. Advised Funds – permits donors to contribute a large sum into a named fund and retain the privilege to recommend the distribution of income and principal from time to time for the rest of the donor’s and spouse’s respective lifetimes.
- Advised Funds – permits donors to contribute a large sum into a named fund and retain the privilege to recommend the distribution of income and principal from time to time for the rest of the donor’s and spouse’s respective lifetimes.
- Charitable Remainder Trusts – allows a donor to retain fixed and assured income for life (or lives) with the remainder of assets at the end of the life (or lives) becoming the irrevocable property of GDH; donors increase income from low-productive, appreciated assets contributed to a charitable remainder trust while avoiding any tax on capital gains otherwise applicable to donated assets.
- Conversion of Retirement Plans – takes advantage of the high tax cost to transfer wealth in IRA, Keogh, 401(k), and other qualified retirement plans, a donor can transfer this asset to a charitable remainder trust, or directly to GDH, and achieve significant economic advantages.
- Charitable Gift Annuities – for certain qualified older individuals who are seeking to maximize a fixed rate of retirement income, a Charitable Gift Annuity may prove to be advantageous; for younger individuals seeking additional alternatives in building retirement plans, a Deferred Gift Annuity has substantial planning benefits.
- Bequests in Wills and Trusts – generates major unrestricted gifts through estate planning techniques at the death of the donor.