Donations
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The Audio Information Network of Colorado depends on its "Association of Friends and Listeners" to continue providing broadcast services to listeners throughout the state of Colorado. By listening to AINC, telling others about the service, and/or encouraging friends and neighbors to listen to AINC broadcasts, you are providing support service to AINC.
When you are able, AINC asks that you also consider a financial contribution annually to the association of friends of the Radio Reading Service. An annual contribution of $50 will be appreciated.
If you would like, you can use a credit card at our online donation form. You can also contribute by credit card over the phone: (303) 786-7777. Alternately, you can mail a check, payable to ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF AINC, to:
AINC
2200 Central Avenue
Suite A
Boulder, CO 80301
Where Your Dollars Go:
- $25 Donation - provides 30 minutes of programming
- $50 Individual Contribution - provides 1 hour of programming
- $75 Family Contribution - provides ninety minutes of programming
- $100 Supporter - provides one listener radio OR two hours of programming
- $500 Donor - provides five listener radios OR ten hours of programming
- $1,000 Benefactor - provides five listener radios AND ten hours of programming
- $6,000 Patron - provides one week of programming
AINC's Donation Partners
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Dedicated to creating tools and services to make charitable giving part of our everyday lives, JustGive is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase charitable giving by connecting people with the charities and causes they care most about.
Donation Line makes it easy to donate cars, boats, RVs, motorcycles, and even jet skis and snowmobiles to the charity of your choice. Simply complete the online car donation form at their website, or call toll free at 1-877-227-7487 to start the no cost, no hassle car donation process.
Leave A Legacy: The Gift That Goes On Giving
What Is Leave A Legacy?
LEAVE A LEGACY™ is a community-based program to help people learn about charitable giving through a will or from an estate. LEAVE A LEGACY™ does NOT solicit gifts for any particular organization. Instead, the program is a cooperative effort of all types of nonprofit groups, including social service and arts organizations, churches, hospitals, educational institutions and other philanthropic groups.
Charitable, nonprofit groups play an important role in our lives, extending help in many ways, from giving seniors a hot meal, to linking up children with good role models. Help may also come in the form of fighting a terrible disease, leading a spiritual experience or bringing beauty to your world through the arts.
The truth is that these special organizations need financial assistance from people like you in order to continue their good deeds. More than 70% of Americans contribute to the nonprofit groups of their choice throughout their lifetimes. Only around 6% continue this support through a gift in their will or estate plan. By making these "planned gifts," you can continue to help organizations that are making an important difference in your community. When you LEAVE A LEGACY™, you make sure that help continues to be there for those who need it.
The LEAVE A LEGACY™ program in your area can direct you to resources that will help you to fulfill your charitable goals. To locate a LEAVE A LEGACY™ program in your area, CLICK HERE. If there is no program in your area, you may contact the National Committee on Planned Giving for more information.
How does Leave A Legacy benefit AINC?
The NonProfit Times estimates that over 70% of households nationwide contribute to charity each year. This extraordinary generosity, however, is not being expressed in terms of bequest giving.
According to Planned Giving in the United States: A Survey of Donors, an NCPG-sponsored study (1992), 5.71% of households surveyed plan a charitable bequest. If the bequest appeared only in the will of the second-to-die, we would anticipate a 2.8% appearance rate.
Not only do a small percentage of people make bequests; bequests count for relatively few dollars. Giving USA (1998) reports that bequests accounted for $13.62 billion, or 7.8% of total giving nationwide. This number has risen from $7.64 billion in 1990. There has been a steady rise from year to year due to demographics. However, when adjusted for inflation, bequest giving has remained relatively constant since 1987. ("Total Giving Increased 10.7% in 1998 Announces GIVING USA," May 25, 1999, Gibbs Magazine)
There are more than 260 million Americans, of whom approximately 2 million die each year. In 1996, 79,346 estate tax forms were filed with the Federal government. These forms are required for estates in excess of $600,000. Eighteen percent of the forms listed a charitable gift. In other words, 82% of the nation's wealthiest individuals left nothing to charity. In addition, the IRS tells us that charity is getting a decreasing share of the money in these wealthy estates, from 21.8% in 1976 to 6.3% in 1992.
If merely 6% of Americans left a charitable bequest, the current number of charitable bequests would more than double. Imagine what the impact to charitable organizations would be if 10% of Americans left a charitable gift through their estate plans.
WealthTransfer
In 1990, Cornell economists Robert Avery and Michael Rendall published research on the savings behavior of Americans that suggested that $10.4 trillion of net worth will be transferred between generations by the year 2040. This widely-cited and often misinterpreted statistic has been now been updated by a study focusing specifically on the level of charitable giving, especially by wealth holders, over the first half of the next century.
In 1999, Boston College researchers Paul Schervish and John Havens published a new econometric study on the intergenerational wealth transfer: Millionaires and the millennium: New estimates of the forthcoming wealth transfer and the prospects for a golden age of philanthropy. They predict that over the 55-year period from 1998 to 2052 the wealth transfer will be $41 trillion, and may well reach double or triple that amount. The study's most conservative estimate is that $6 trillion will be transferred to charity through requests during the 55-year period.
Who can help me arrange for a gift?
If you have a professional you're working with, like a financial planner, lawyer, accountant or insurance agent, please talk with them about leaving a gift. A professional can tell you about the tax benefits of planned gifts. You can also call the development department of a charitable organization for help.
How do I leave a gift in memory of a person or for a specified purpose?
A gift is a wonderful way to recognize someone who has made a difference in your life. You may also want to give to a specific cause like research or to a new building. This kind of memorial gift can be arranged in your will, the same way that you would leave a personal gift from your estate. You just need to make it clear that the gift is given in memory of a particular person or for a specific use.
Do I tell the charity I've left the gift?
This is up to you. Charities often like to know in advance so they can recognize your generosity. They can also tell you about specific opportunities for giving. Whether you let the organization know of your plans or not, is your decision to make.
Take the first step.
Think about to whom and why you'd like to leave a gift. Maybe you or someone you know has been helped by a particular organization. Maybe you're an active volunteer or believer in the mission. You might want to leave a gift in memory of a loved one or for a specific use.
If you need more help or you need to know more about a particular organization, do some investigating before leaving a gift. Call the nonprofit group of your choice. They can help you better understand what they do and what opportunities are available for giving.
Contact your professional advisor for help. Your advisor can make sure you are getting the maximum tax and legal advantages allowed for your gift. If you do not have one call the LEAVE A LEGACY™ Coordinator closest to you.