Gift Planning

SCA Founding President Liz Putnam with
Hugh Montgomery, Director of Gift Planning

Generous commitments from people like you are an essential part of building a national force of young people working to protect our natural and cultural world and to assume the responsibilities of citizenship. Thank you for your thoughtful support and for inquiring about how you might include SCA in your plans through a legacy or life income gift.

There are a number of ways to provide for family and friends and help perpetuate SCA's proud tradition of service. By choosing the right assets for your gifts and exploring the wide range of gift plans available, you can maximize the impact of your donations as well as optimize your tax and financial benefits. As Director of Gift Planning, I am delighted to hear more about your situation and help you meet your needs.

Please click the link below to learn more about your own needs while making provision for family and worthy charitable organizations like SCA. Then contact me so I may assist you.

Download Do Something Grand, an overview of the many ways to support SCA’s mission

Request more information or inform SCA that you have already included SCA in your plans

Many different assets can be used in your gift planning, including cash, stock or mutual funds, real estate, collectibles, life insurance policies and IRAs and qualified retirement plans.

Outright gifts are extremely important to SCA. They enabled SCA to engage nearly 4,000 young people in more than two million hours of service last year. SCA also offers a life income gifts program that includes charitable gift annuities and charitable remainder trusts. These arrangements can help you enhance your income for life while providing you with significant income tax and capital gains tax saving. These plans can also help you save for future retirement.

Bequests and other legacy gifts are extremely important to SCA as well, assuring our future ability to prepare new generations of conservation leaders and protect our natural world for years to come. Legacy gifts made through your will, living trust, life insurance policies, or IRAs or qualified retirement plans will all pass to SCA completely free of estate tax.

It is also possible to provide for loved ones and for SCA through arrangements that can provide those loved ones with income for life, use of your personal residence or farm, or a future inheritance. All of these arrangements provide significant gift and estate tax savings.

I would be pleased to provide further information on any of these gift arrangements, and to prepare confidential illustrations on how these plans might work for you. Our recommendations should always be discussed with your own legal/tax advisors.

Please look over this information and contact me if you would like to explore ways to support SCA’s mission and meet your own needs. I look forward to speaking with you.

Hugh Montgomery, Director of Gift Planning
SCA Switchboard 603.543.1700 or
toll-free - 1.888.722.9675 ext. 1151
P.O. Box 550 Charlestown, NH 03603-0550
hmontgomery@thesca.org

P.S. Won’t you consider joining the Liz Putnam Legacy Society (Please click here to learn more) to help sustain the future through a legacy or life income gift? When you do, I will be delighted to send you an autographed copy of the magnificent companion volume to The National Parks: America’s Best Idea by noted filmmakers Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns.