What Will Your Legacy Be?

Support the causes that you have cared about throughout your lifetime, beyond your lifetime. Please consider including a legacy gift to the Seabird Institute in your plans, or one of its programs, such as Hog Island or the Project Puffin Visitor Center.

To ensure that your gift is dedicated to the Seabird Institute, simply specify in your estate plans that your gift is intended for the Seabird Institute, a program of The National Audubon Society. Tax ID # 13-1624102.

There are many ways to make a legacy gift, including:

• Naming Audubon's Seabird Institute as a beneficiary or partial beneficiary of an IRA. This strategy may have important tax benefits for your heirs and your estate. Please see our information sheet for guidance on beneficiary designation.
• Naming Audubon's Seabird Institute a beneficiary or partial beneficiaray of other brokerage or bank accounts, donor-advised fund, or life insurance policy.
• Setting up a charitable trust or gift annuity to povide lifetime income for yourself or members of your family now, and afuture gift to Audubon's Seabird Institute. Please contact us to discuss these options.
• Naming Audubon's Seabird Institute in your will or living trust.

Naming the Seabird Institute in your will or trust can be as simple as adding this language:

I bequeath (dollar amount or % of estate) to the National Audubon Society, Inc., a not-for-profit organization, with its principal offices located at 225 Varick Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10014. This gift should support Audubon’s Seabird Institute (or, the Project Puffin Visitor Center, or Hog Island Audubon Camp). Tax ID # 13-
1624102.

Please let us know about your intentions by filling out our Legacy Confirmation Form, so that we may honor your wishes to the best of our ability and recognize your support through our Grinnell Legacy Society.

Contact us for additional information or for assistance in determining which type of gift may be right for you.

Planned Giving contact is Shari Kolding, Director of Gift Planning - phone: 212-979-3033 or email: plannedgifts@audubon.org.