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Bequests
Leaving a gift in your will is a simple way to provide a living legacy to Ohio's environment after your death. Making a will gives you control over the distribution of the assets you have worked a lifetime to build. It also avoids involving family members in a lengthy and costly probate process. With a bequest, all your assets remain available to your during your lifetime. For some people, a bequest may reduce estate taxes.
Making a bequest to OEC gives you the opportunity to:
- make a lasting imprint on the health of Ohio's environment
- contribute to OEC's financial and programmatic growth
- give more freely than you might have been able to during your lifetime
- save inheritance tax
We recognize that your family's future is your first priority. The future is our priority as well. Bequests can take several forms and we offer suggestions below which allow you to secure a future for your loved ones while showing your support for OEC's ongoing mission:
- Make a specific bequest to OEC by designating a dollar amount, a percentage of your estate, or a particular asset.
- Provide for your family through specific bequests and then designate all or a portion of your remaining estate to OEC.
- Make OEC a contingent beneficiary, such that OEC will receive all or a portion of your assets only if your named beneficiaries do not survive you.
- Establish a trust to provide income to your beneficiaries for life.
- Make OEC the remainder beneficiary of that trust such that OEC would receive the principal of the trust at the death of your last surviving beneficiary.
To include the Ohio Environmental Council as a beneficiary, include the following language: The Ohio Environmental Council, a nonprofit corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Ohio (tax identification number: 31-0805578), and with the current business address of 1207 Grandview Avenue, Suite 201, Columbus, Ohio 43212-3449.
Please contact us to learn more about making a bequest to OEC. We want to hear about the Ohio you envision for your children and we are happy to share with you our plans for preserving the integrity of Ohio's environment.
If you have already designated OEC as a beneficiary in your will, please inform us so we can thank you for your generosity and discuss how you'd like your gift to be used. Please contact Jodi Segal, Director of Development, at jodi@theOEC.org or (614) 487-7506.
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