Outright Gifts

Assets can be given outright or used to fund a life-income gift. For an overview of how you can structure your gift, go to Giving Wisely.

Gifts of Cash
Maximize your charitable deduction and deliver immediate benefits to Douglass College with a cash gift.

Appreciated Securities
The IRS still allows you one of its most significant tax breaks for gifts of appreciated securities. Click here for information on how to transfer appreciated stocks and bonds to the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College for The Douglass Fund.

Gifts of Real Estate
You can make a substantial gift for Douglass College through a transfer of residential, commercial, or undeveloped real estate.

Gifts of Business Interests
You can give the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College an interest in a closely-held or family business.

Gifts of Artwork and Collectibles
You can enliven and beautify our facilities and also secure an income tax deduction with a gift of artwork or collectibles.

Estate Gifts

Bequests
This fundamental planned gift delivers critically important support to the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College and Douglass College every year.

Gifts of Retirement Plans
Your retirement plan could deliver a benefit to Douglass College as well as to your heirs.

Gifts of Life Insurance
Life insurance can provide a variety of current and future gifts to Douglass College.

Gifts in Partnership With the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College

Charitable Gift Annuities
The simplest life-income gift also delivers the highest annual payments and significant tax benefits for you. In return for your gift of cash or appreciated securities to The Douglass Fund, the Rutgers University Foundation pays you an annuity; you receive an income tax deduction, avoid or reduce capital gains tax, and pay no income tax on part of the payments you receive.

Deferred Gift Annuities
There is a life-income gift designed to build younger donors' retirement earnings. Deferring the start of your annuity until retirement or later gives you a large income tax deduction now and an additional source of revenue when you need it later.

Charitable gift annuities and deferred gift annuities are administered by the Rutgers University Foundation.

Charitable Remainder Unitrusts
This powerful life-income gift is the most creative planning tool for donors. The unitrust pays you a fixed percentage of principal and reinvests excess income. You have flexibility in determining who will manage the unitrust, the length of the income payout and the number of income beneficiaries, and which assets will be placed into the trust.

Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts
You can combine flexible management of your gift with a predictable fixed-income payout using a charitable remainder annuity trust. The annuity trust is individually managed and can pay fixed income for life or a term of years to multiple beneficiaries.

The Pooled Income Fund
The Associate Alumnae of Douglass College offers a life-income gift that works like a charitable mutual fund. Your gift of cash or appreciated securities entitles you to receive an income tax deduction and avoid or reduce potential capital gains tax. You also secure lifetime income and deliver significant support to Douglass College.

The Pooled Income Fund is administered by the Rutgers University Foundation.

Charitable Lead Trusts
This gift plan reduces the cost of transferring assets to your family while delivering immediate benefits to Douglass College. The lead trust holds appreciating assets for a term and pays income to the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College for The Douglass Fund, then passes the principal to your family. This gift plan freezes the taxable value of appreciating assets but passes on to your family the full market value after the period of income to Douglass College.

Retained Life Estates
You can give the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College your house and continue to live there rent-free.

Charitable Bargain Sales
This part-gift/part-sale transaction gives you a charitable deduction plus cash to purchase other property.