FSA LEGACY FUND FOR FAMILIES
Your promise from one generation to the next that at-risk children and families will get the support they need to grow and thrive, and live more productive lives with, hope, safety, and dignity.
Enormous Gratitude to our Legacy Circle Members
Beth and John Allen * Shirley Banks * Wendy Buchen
Mike and Carol Elgie * Marianne Gabelman
Dave and Barbara Green * Margaret Hallett * S. Kramer Herzog
Don and Pat Leisey * J. Michael Mahoney * Ruth Rosen
Dorothy and Tom Ruppanner * Steve and Britt Thal
Legacy Circle Members
Britt & Steve Thal
We believe that FSA is a premier agency, not only in its award-winning leadership and scope of services, but in the dedication of its 200 extraordinary volunteers. Many of these volunteers work in areas of particular interest to our family, including suicide prevention and helping women and children who have been the victims of domestic violence. Without the hard work of FSA’s team, too many lives of Marin children and adults would be lost or destroyed.
Britt and I have made a commitment to continue our support of FSA’s life-saving services through a planned gift. It is gratifying to invest in our community’s future, even as our ability to give annually has been effected by the economic downturn.
It is our true hope that, with accumulated contributions from caring individuals, FSA can build an endowment so the agency's work can continue well into the future. With this wish in mind, we've decided to augment our annual gift with a planned gift that will continue beyond our lives.
Steve Thal
I believe that the agency’s services to the community are invaluable.
I’ve served on the Board of Directors of FSA for many years because I believe that the agency’s services to the community are invaluable and often, the crucial catalyst in rescuing families and individuals with major problems. In addition, the services FSA provides in areas of mental health, substance abuse, new parenting, child abuse, suicide and grief counseling, are ongoing and chronic in any community. They will not end when I am no longer able to make a yearly contribution. Therefore I have left a gift in my will to continue my support of this remarkable organization. I have stressed to my family the need to contribute to those who are "saving the world" and they wholeheartedly support my decision.
Ruth Rosen
FSA is a premier agency both in terms of gifted leadership and scope of services.
Tom and I have worked most of our adult lives with non-profit groups and recognize the vital importance they have to the health of the community. In our estimation, FSA is a premier agency both in terms of gifted leadership and scope of services. We are aware of the continued need of FSA to raise funds to support its services and our true hope that, with accumulated contributions from caring individuals, FSA can create an endowment so the agency's work can continue well into the future. With this wish in mind, we've decided to augment our annual gift with a planned gift that will continue beyond our lives.
Dorothy Ruppanner
IT’S NOT THAT HARD
Most donors think of planned giving as daunting, an area of giving best left to the wealthy. As custodians of our community’s future, however, all donors can play a satisfying role in making planned gifts, leaving the technicalities to our specialists. Planned giving is simply a financial strategy for making a major gift.
WHAT ABOUT MY HEIRS?
The most frequent concern about planned gifts is "What about my heirs?" The question often assumes that a major planned gift entails setting aside too much for a charity and too little for the family. FSA is not out to disinherit heirs, but rather to continue a valued donor’s support. Most heirs also want their loved one’s wishes fulfilled.
I’VE GIVEN ENOUGH
An unprecedented amount of wealth is passing from one generation to the next over the next two decades in this county. Very little of it is destined for charity. Currently, less than 6% of American households have any provisions for charity in their estate plan. Caring donors who make planned gifts provide others with moral leadership crucial to the future of FSA’s life-sustaining work.
Leave a Legacy
THINK OF THE GOOD…Family Service Agency of Marin could do if every supporter made a planned gift!
FSA is prepared to deal with the technicalities of planned giving. The agency can provide you with tax calculations and income projections on a variety of planned gift arrangements.
For confidential information on the tax and income benefits of planned giving, call Marianne Gabelman at (415) 491-5705.
