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Gift Planning Resources

Explore additional resources to help you with your tax planning and making a gift in support of our CMC mission. Your designation will determine use of your gift for operations or endowment with the CMC Foundation. Undesignated gifts will be used in the area of greatest need. Contact us for more information about ways you can support our organization or let us know if you have given to us in the past.

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Many people who care deeply about Colorado’s mountains choose to support the Colorado Mountain Club in different ways, including gifts that sustain education, stewardship, and access for future generations to inspire and care for the places that shape us.

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Bequest

Joe and Anna have been faithful supporters of our organization. They believe it is important to help further our mission.

  • Joe: "Anna and I believe Colorado Mountain Club is truly helping others. It is important to us to partner with them to make a difference. That is why we have made several gifts over the years."
  • Anna: "But we wanted to do more than just make gifts. Joe and I have been careful and have been able to save enough for retirement. We plan to be generous with family, but we also have the ability to be generous with Colorado Mountain Club."
  • Joe: "After talking it over, we decided to leave a bequest in each of our wills. Our attorney took the simple language available from the organization and included a nice bequest in my will as well as Anna's. We are delighted that we will be helping others through these gifts."

What is a charitable bequest?

A bequest is a gift you can make to support Colorado Mountain Club's mission in your will or living trust or with a codicil.

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Is a charitable bequest right for you?

We have resources that will help you learn more about bequests. Please review our sample bequest language. You will see how easy it is to include a bequest in your will or trust.

You might find it helpful to print this page and the bequest language. Please feel free to give this information to your attorney. If he or she has any questions, please contact us.

Please note: The information above is representative of a typical donor and may or may not be an actual donor to our organization. Since your benefits may be different, you may want to create a printable illustration of your income and tax benefits with our calculators.