Bequest Language
Planning for the future and creating the legacy you wish to leave is one of the most effective ways to ensure a lasting impact. Making a gift in your will or living trust, known as a bequest, can guarantee that your legacy endures. Your gift may be a specific dollar amount, a percentage of your estate or the remainder after all other provisions are specified.
Our federal tax ID number is: 22-2484705
A Tool to Make Planned Giving Easier
The Center has partnered with FreeWill to help you write an estate plan—for free! In 20 minutes or less you can protect your loved ones and include the necessary language to designate a bequest to the Center for Disability Services. If you’d prefer to finalize your will with an attorney, you can still use the tool to create a list of documented wishes.
Below is suggested language to use when drafting your bequest.
Sample Language
For an unrestricted gift that allows the Center for Disability Services to determine how to use the funds based on the most pressing needs, use the following language for your will and/or trust:
"I give to the Center for Disability Services, a nonprofit corporation currently located at 22 Corporate Woods Blvd., 5th Fl., Albany, NY 12205, or its successor thereto, _________ [written amount or percentage of the estate or description of property] for its unrestricted charitable use and purpose."
To designate your provision for a particular purpose:
"I give to the Center for Disability Services, a nonprofit corporation currently located at 22 Corporate Woods Blvd., 5th Fl., Albany, NY 12205, or its successor thereto, _________ [written amount or percentage of the estate or description of property]. This gift should be used for (state purpose) if and so long as the Center for Disability Services determines that the need exists. If the Center for Disability Services shall determine at the outset or at a later time that the need does not exist, or no longer exists or for some reason it is not possible (or prudent) to administer my gift as originally intended, then the Center for Disability Services may, in its sole and uncontrolled discretion, direct the use of my bequest for a purpose related as closely as possible to that stated above."
If you have named the Center for Disability Services in your will or trust, please let us know so we can ensure that your gift is used according to your wishes. Notifying us of your plans will enable us to plan for the use of your future gift. However, if you prefer to remain anonymous, we will keep your name and gift in strict confidence.
Please contact Kim Heunemann at 518-832-6113 or heunemann@cfdsny.org for more information.