When you plan your giving to Children's Rehabilitation Foundation, you are not only investing in the future of children with disabilities and special needs, you are also creating a meaningful and lasting charitable legacy for you or your family. Gift planning allows you to achieve your philanthropic goals while maximizing your tax benefits and other financial planning objectives. Everyone benefits!
You can make a planned gift of virtually anything of value:
Bequests
Remembering Children's Rehabilitation Foundation in your Will provides a lasting legacy for our children and their families. Your estate benefits from a reduction of final taxes payable, and your legacy helps children to reach their full potential with the treatment, programming and equipment available at the Rehabilitation Centre for Children.
RRSP and RRIF Retirement Funds
You can name Children's Rehabilitation Foundation as the beneficiary of your RRSP, RRIF or other pension plan.
Life Insurance
By naming Children's Rehabilitation Foundation the owner and beneficiary of your Life Insurance Policy, you will receive a tax receipt for the amount of your annual premiums.
Phyllis, the "Bib" Lady
She doesn't run in fundraising marathons, or ride a bike in long distance rallies, or play rounds of golf in the charity tournaments…she probably would if she could... but she will be 96 years old on her next birthday…so she had to find other ways to help the Children's Rehabilitation Foundation.
Phyllis drew from her considerable dress making experience and started making a variety of fabric creations that are now strewn all over Manitoba in the homes of those that have come under the wings of the Children's Rehabilitation Foundation.
She is affectionately referred to as Phyllis, the Bib Lady because of the wonderful bibs she makes from colorful yards of cloth and bolt ends of material. Thousands of these bibs have made their way home with children. She also makes soft squeeze balls for children that need help with dexterity.
The other part of the legacy she is leaving is a financial one. She has a Charitable Remainder Trust and a Strategic Charitable Investment. Both involve an upfront pledge of a certain amount of money, stocks, or mutual funds depending on which plan is chosen. Both plans fit Phyllis' desires on how to leave her legacy on the society that she has been a part of for almost a century.
Why does she do this and what does she get out of her relationship with the Children's Rehabilitation Foundation? She gets to place her footprint alongside people's lives, and this is a part of the legacy she wants to leave to her fellow man. The threads of her needles are like beats from her heart, and she stitches her joy of helping others into each fabric masterpiece that she creates.
She may get up in the morning and make bibs and squeeze toys for special needs children, but her pledges of financial assistance are there to help pay for the big costs of life that families with special needs kids are faced with today.
Please call the Children's Rehabilitation Foundation at (204) 475-5073 for more information on how to leave your legacy.
