ABC's Planned Giving

When you include American Bird Conservancy (ABC) in your planning for the future, you also help secure the future for wild birds and their habitats. ABC is the only national non-profit focusing solely on the conservation of native wild birds throughout the Americas. Your gift ensures that ABC has the resources to address emerging bird conservation issues. Through your estate planning you can help the birds and also generate financial benefits for you and your family.

Many Options

• One way to make a planned gift to ABC is through your will. By doing so, you may also earn a reduction in estate taxes. Your attorney can provide simple language for leaving a specific amount, percentage of your estate, or part or all of the 'remainder' of your estate to ABC.
   
• There are several ways you can make ABC a beneficiary of your IRA, other retirement plan, or life insurance policy. It's an easy way to make a gift that may also be relatively advantageous to your heirs.
   
• Setting up a "charitable remainder trust" can guarantee a future gift to ABC, generate lifetime income for you or your designated beneficiary, and reduce estate taxes. After the death of the last individual beneficiary, the remainder of the trust will support bird conservation for future generations.
   
• A "charitable lead trust" lets you set aside assets for your heirs while reducing eventual estate taxes; in the meantime, the trust generates a current income stream for ABC.
   
• Often charitable giving will provide you income tax benefits in addition to estate tax advantages. You may also avoid capital gains taxes by funding your charitable trust with securities or other assets which have increased in value. Your attorney can explain these opportunities and benefits.

American Bird Conservancy's Legacy Circle

Ensure the future of bird conservation.

When you establish a bequest or other planned gift to benefit ABC, you become a member of the ABC Legacy Circle. Gifts from members of the Legacy Circle will result in conservation of the birds of our two continents for all future generations. You will have made a gift that endures.

For planned gifts of $10,000 or more, ABC Legacy Circle members receive lifetime membership in ABC with a subscription to Bird Conservation magazine and Bird Calls newsletter. Legacy Circle members also receive the year-end report made by the president of ABC to the Board of Directors.

As a symbol of gratitude for a gift and hope for securing the future of birds, members receive ABC's enamel hummingbird lapel pin.

American Bird Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization located in The Plains, Virginia, tax-identification number 52-1501259.

Planning for ABC's Future

In little more than a decade, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has established itself as a leading force for bird conservation in the Americas. ABC has built partnerships to protect habitat, improve national and international policies, and directly conserve the most endangered birds. ABC has consistently received the highest rating possible for fiscal responsibility from the independent non-profit Charity Navigator.

• Help build small and large partnerships, nationally and regionally, to tackle current and emerging priority bird conservation issues.
   
• Create an endowment that can offer loans to local conservation organizations and provide bridge funding and seed money for programs and partners.
   
• Assure that there will always be a U.S. organization to champion the conservation of wild birds and their habitats in the western hemisphere.
   

By far the best assurance for the future of any organization is the endowment of its core mission. By planning for your own future, you can help secure the future for birds.

Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
American Bird Conservancy,
PO Box 249, The Plains, VA 20198