Your planned gift to Habitat for Humanity, The Heart of Wyoming will leave a lasting legacy strengthening families, neighborhoods, and communities for generations to come.
Through affordable homeownership, Habitat homeowners gain the foundation to build strength, stability, and self-reliance - creating opportunities that can positively impact their children and future generations.
With any planned gift option you are considering, contact your financial advisor or attorney for professional advice. Planned gifts allow generous partners like you to make meaningful gifts you may have never thought possible.
Planned Giving
Will or Living Trust
One simple and flexible way to ensure that your legacy of empowerment continues for years is by leaving a gift in your will or living trust, known as a charitable bequest.
Establishing a will or living trust is a means of extending your love, care, generosity, and gratitude to family and friends. It is also an excellent way to support our mission to build homes, communities, and hope for local families after your lifetime. Bequests allow individuals to make more significant gifts than they could during their lifetime to support our work.
In addition, gifts through a will or living trust are flexible; they can be changed as individuals’ circumstances in life change. You are free to change your will or living trust entirely at any time.
Bequests
Make a bequest by having an attorney or advisor include this language in your will or trust:
I give, devise and bequeath to
Habitat for Humanity, The Heart of Wyoming Inc.,
a nonprofit corporation located at
232 E 2nd St., Ste 204, Casper, WY 82601
Tax ID: 83-0309016
____% of my estate
the sum of $________
____% of the residue of my estate as an unrestricted gift
Retirement Plans and IRAs
If you want to make a difference after your lifetime, consider a tax-wise gift from your retirement plan or IRA.
A retirement plan, such as an individual retirement account, or IRA, is typically the largest source of assets that generate taxable income when paid to a beneficiary.
If you are considering a gift to Habitat for Humanity, The Heart of Wyoming after your lifetime, it is usually better to leave taxable assets to us and give nontaxable assets to your loved ones.
Life Insurance Policies
By naming Habitat for Humanity, The Heart of Wyoming as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy, you can make a lasting impact on families in our community.
This simple estate-planning option allows you to support affordable homeownership and help build stronger communities for years to come.
Not only will you make a substantial gift at a low cost, but it’s revocable at any time should you need to change your plans.
You can designate Habitat for Humanity, The Heart of Wyoming as the beneficiary for all or a percentage of your life insurance policy’s death benefit.
Real Estate
​The value of your gift helps support our work of creating affordable homeownership opportunities for families in need.
Real estate may be donated to Habitat for Humanity, The Heart of Wyoming during your lifetime or through your estate plan.
Gifts can include residential, commercial, agricultural, or undeveloped property. Depending on the type of gift and your individual circumstances, donating real estate may provide tax advantages and eliminate the responsibilities associated with owning and maintaining the property.
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