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Text Box: Avoid the twofold taxation on retirement plan assets Your Gift Retirement plan gift (more) How to Make the Gift Name LSNF as beneficiary of the remainder of the assets after your lifetime Your Benefits Avoidance of heavily taxed gift to heirs, allowing less costly gifts Avoid capital gains tax on the sale of a home or other real estate Your Gift Real estate gift (more) How to Make the Gift Donate the property to LSNF Your Benefits Immediate income tax deduction and avoidance of capital gains tax Give your personal residence or farm, but continue to live there Your Gift Retained life estate (more) How to Make the Gift Designate the ownership of your home to LSNF, but retain occupancy Your Benefits Charitable income tax deduction and lifetime use of home Secure a fixed and often increased income Your Gift Charitable remainder annuity trust (more) How to Make the Gift Create a charitable trust that pays you a set income annually Your Benefits Immediate income tax deduction and fixed income for life Reduce gift and estate taxes on assets passing to heirs Your Gift Charitable lead trust (more) How to Make the Gift Create a trust that pays a fixed or variable income to us for a set term, and then passes to heirs Your Benefits Reduced size of taxable estate; keeps property in family, often with reduced gift taxes

Option Seven

Endowment Giving

All of us wish to leave a legacy. And we hope that our efforts, whether in the workplace, our homes, or community will continue and flourish long after we are gone. An endowment to benefit the civil legal needs of our community will ensure the continuation of all we have built together. From dedicated staff and volunteers to consistent donors, all have helped to build a vital and important resource for those less fortunate than ourselves.

But where will the organization be in 25, 50 or 100 years? Will shrinking Federal, State and grant resources hamstring LSNF into cutting back successful programs like Team Child or Domestic Violence Representation? Will rising healthcare, insurance and overhead costs force LSNF to eliminate crucial staff positions or close offices in rural communities? Not if we have a steady stream of unrestricted funds from an established endowment.

LSNF is now 30 years old and now is the time to save for the future. We can continue to provide hope for those in crisis; ensure justice for those who are preyed upon; and provide a future free of the shackles of poverty and violence for all.