Click on our partners button for your Internet nonprofit directory Our Partners   Advisors    Bequests   Advantages   Here's How!   A Service of  Make a Lasting Gift Make a Lasting Gift is a consortium of Oak Park and River Forest   nonprofits and others who support  planned giving to build endowments. Endowed nonprofit organizations have greater capacity to provide services and respond to changing community needs. For more information or to join, please contact us via e-mail at: info@lastinggift.org

Think of the impact if you were able to make a gift today that would last for years....helping today, tomorrow and beyond. We invite you to consider planned giving to do just that! Your lasting gift can be a modest donation or a substantial transfer of assets.  When you make a planned gift, your act now continues to help organizations that improve the quality of life in our community. When you make a Lasting Gift you sustain our local tradition of caring. More than 70% of Americans contribute to nonprofit groups of their choice during their lifetimes. But only about 8% remember to continue their support for nonprofits through a gift in a will or estate plan.  We are a collaboration of nonprofit organziations  working together to encourage planned giving and major gifts. Such gifts not only sustain the work being done today but help to prepare us as a community to meet future needs and challenges. On this web site we've included links: § to the activities of our Legacy Partner oganizations, § to the many types of gifts  you can make, and § to ways that can help you compound your charitable interest!   We encourage you to contact your favorite charitable organizations and/or  your professional financial advisor. If you prefer, you can contact us and we will suggest several advisors for your to consider. Our information, services and referrals are free and confidential. If you have specific questions about services and assistance provided by any of the organizations represented here, please contact them directly. Use the phone number or E-mail address you'll find on the page for that organization.  If you would like more information about how you can make a lasting gift please e-mail our coordinator at:  info@lastinggift.org Henry Kranz, Coordinator Updated February 2, 2008