| Maximize your deduction; minimize the gift details. |
Use cash or credit card to make your gift to HSHS St. John's Foundation. |
Claim your deduction against a larger portion of your adjusted gross income and make an immediate impact. |
| Afford a larger gift and avoid any capital gains liability. |
Give appreciated stock, bonds or mutual funds held over one year. |
Buy low and give high - make a gift that costs you less than the benefit it delivers to us, while avoiding capital gains tax. |
| Make a gift to St. John's future that doesn't affect your cash flow or portfolio now. |
Put a bequest in your will (cash, specific property or a share of the estate residue). |
Today - a gift that costs you and your family nothing. Tomorrow - as estate tax deduction. |
| Tap one of the most valuable assets in your portfolio to make a gift to HSHS St. John's Foundation. |
Use personal property to make your gift, such as real estate, farm land, jewelry or other valuable asset. |
Avoid capital gains tax, receive an income tax deduction - and have the option of a gift that doesn't affect your lifestyle. |
| Locate an overlooked asset you can easily give to HSHS St. John's Foundation. |
Name HSHS St. John's Foundation as beneficiary of your retirement plan; leave other assets to family. |
Eliminate income tax on retirement plan assets - free up other property to pass on to your heirs. |
| Make an endowment gift from income rather than capital. |
Create a new life insurance policy, or donate a paid-up policy whose coverage you no longer need. |
Increase your ability to make a significant gift. |
| Make a Corporate Gift. |
Make a Corporate Charitable Gift while investing in one of St. John's programs. |
Numerous benefits to the business, the stakeholders and the community. |
| Help St. John's Hospital, St. John's College of Nursing or Prairie Heart Institute during financially unsteady times. |
Recession-proof giving ideas - bequests, future gift of a life insurance policy, future gift of retirement plan assets, future gift of real estate and establishing a charitable trust. |
Minimize your taxes, reduce the tax burden on heirs and fund important hospital programs. |