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It's easy to help change the lives of the homeless in our community by providing hot meals, lodging and more at the People's City Mission. Donate now through the Network for Good.

Donate Goods
The People's City Mission Distribution Center is located at 21st and N Streets in downtown Lincoln. We are always in need of food and clothing for our guests. Donors save us thousands of dollars each year by providing us with the following critical items:

Donate a Car
Call our Financial Director at 402-475-1303 to donate a car. Your tax-deductible donation will provide shelter for a family in need.

People's City Mission Foundation
The People's City Mission Foundation was founded in 1989 to encourage our Mission friends to support our important work through legacies, life insurance and other planned giving instruments. The most common ways of giving tax-deductible gifts to the People's City Mission Foundation include:

Building a "foundation of compassion" is what People's City Mission is all about. Your support of the Foundation will ensure that the Mission is able to continue to help homeless single moms and their children, single men, and the sick and forgotten, both now and for many years in the future.

Friends of the Mission are encouraged to contact our Major Donor Department for more information regarding our planned giving programs. We are a 501{C}{3} tax exempt corporation and our IRS number is 47-0723542.

Charitable Bequests
Charitable bequests are gifts made from your estate, after your death, as a result of provisions in your will. Bequests enable you to preserve assets during your life and make gifts only after you have adequately provided for loved ones and yourself.

Charitable bequests can provide for the contribution of a specific amount or a percentage of your residual estate, meaning what remains after all debts, taxes and specific bequests have been paid. Bequests can be outright or contingent, meaning only in the event that loved ones do not survive you.

Charitable bequests are revocable until death; hence there are no income tax benefits. Bequests do, however, qualify for an estate tax deduction if you have a taxable estate.

Language to include a gift to the People's City Mission in your will is:

Specific bequest of a dollar amount, shares of stock, parcel or property or other asset: I give, devise and bequeath to the People's City Mission in Lincoln, NE, the sum of $__________(or __________ shares of stock of ________Company, or specific property).

Residual bequest, meaning what remains after all debts, taxes and specific bequest have been paid: I give, devise and bequeath all (or ________%) of the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, tangible and intangible, to People's City Mission in Lincoln, NE.

Contingent bequest, meaning a gift only in the event that designated loved ones do not survive you: I give, devise and bequeath the sum of $______ to ____(name)_______ provided he/she survives me. In the event he/she predeceases me, I direct that this sum be paid to the People's City Mission, in Lincoln, NE.

Your will should be drafted by a qualified estate planning attorney. Wills should be reviewed periodically to ensure they are current with respect to your personal wishes, circumstances and applicable laws.

Charitable Gift Annuities
Many donors today are seeking ways to increase the annual income they receive from their securities and cash balances. Charitable Gift Annuities offer a possible solution that benefits both donors and the Mission. In addition to potentially increasing annual income from stock holdings and cash balances, Charitable Gift Annuities may provide substantial investment and tax benefits.

Charitable Gift Annuities (CGAs) involve an irrevocable transfer of cash, appreciated securities or certain other assets to the People's City Mission in exchange for the Mission's commitment to make periodic payments, typically quarterly, to you and/or a designated beneficiary for life. The only paperwork necessary to complete a CGA is a simple, one-page agreement. The annuity rate is based on the age(s) of the income beneficiary(ies), typically 5.5 percent to 8.5 percent.

Charitable Gift Annuities provide significant potential benefits to donors with highly appreciated, low-yielding securities who want to increase the annual cash flow on their investments while avoiding or deferring capital gains taxes. When appreciated assets are used to fund a CGA, a portion of your gain permanently avoids capital gains taxes, while the remainder is taxed over your life expectancy.

Charitable Gift Annuities entitle you to a charitable income deduction for a portion of the value of your gift donation in the year the gift is funded. The deduction is not 100 percent of the value of the assets since you will receive annuity payments from the Mission. The amount of your deduction depends on the number and ages of the income beneficiaries as well as the rate of the annuity payment and interest rates when the gift is funded. Assets used to fund a gift annuity are removed from your estate, thereby avoiding any estate taxes that may occur upon your death.

If you use cash to fund a CGA, a portion of the annuity payments you receive will be tax-free. The remainder is ordinary income. If you fund a CGA with appreciated property, the annuity payments you receive will include ordinary, capital gain and tax-free income. As for security, all of the assets of the People's City Mission back the Mission's commitment to make annuity payments to you and/or the designated income beneficiaries.

A variation on the CGA for donors who do not currently need income, but want to provide income at a later date, say retirement age, is a Deferred Payment Gift Annuity (please call for more information on this annuity program).

Here is a sample agreement:

People's City Mission
Gift Annuity Agreement

One Life-Donor is the Annuitant
Immediate Payments

Notice to Donor: A charitable gift annuity is not insurance under the laws of Georgia and is not subject to regulation by the Insurance Commissioner or protected by any insurance guaranty association. The agreement is made between _____________(name)___________, of __________(City, State)_____ (hereinafter “the Donor”), and People's City Mission, Lincoln, NE 68508 (hereinafter as “PCM”).

1. Transfer of Property by Donor
PCM certifies that the Donor, as an evidence of his desire to support the work of PCM and to make a charitable gift, on ________(date)____________ contributed to PCM the property described in Schedule A attached hereto, the fair market value of which is $___________(amount)_______.

2. Payment of Annuity
In consideration of the property transferred by the Donor, PCM shall pay an annual annuity of $______(annuity amount)_______ from the date of this Agreement and shall pay such amount to the Donor so long as he/she is living.

3. Payment Dates; First Installment
The annuity shall be paid in quarterly installments of $___(amount)_____ on the last day of the calendar quarter. The first installment shall be payable on ______(date of quarter end)______ in the amount of $_____, prorated on the basis of the number of days in the initial payment period. Subsequent installments beginning on _____(date of next quarter end)____ and continuing every quarter thereafter shall be in the full amount of $_________.

4. Birth Date of Donor
The Donor's date of birth is ______(date)_______.

5. Irrevocability; Non-assignability; Termination
This annuity is irrevocable and non-assignable, except that it may be assigned to PCM. PCM's obligation under this Agreement shall terminate with the regular payment preceding the Donor's death.

6. Uses and Purposes of Gift
Upon PCM's satisfaction of its obligations under this Agreement, an amount equal to the residuum of the gift shall be used by PCM for its general purposes.

7. Entire Agreement; Governing Law
This Agreement, together with Schedule A attached hereto, constitutes the entire agreement of the parties. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Nebraska. This Agreement is effective as of ___________(dates assets received)_____.

DONOR: People's City Mission:

______________________________ By:________________________
Tom Barber, Executive Director

Charitable Remainder Trusts
Many donors today are seeking ways to increase the annual income they receive from their securities and cash balances. Like Charitable Gift Annuities discussed elsewhere, Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRTs) provide the potential to increase annual cash flow from investment assets, while deferring capital gain taxes, generating a charitable income tax deduction, avoiding estate taxes and eliminating money management concerns.

Charitable Remainder Trusts involve the creation of a separate legal entity, the trust, which is funded by an irrevocable transfer of cash or certain other assets. The trustee of a CRT receives the gift assets, invests them, makes at least annual distributions to the income beneficiary(ies), files necessary reports and tax returns and, upon the death of the income beneficiaries, distributes any remaining trust assets to the charity or charities named in the trust document as remainder beneficiaries.

There are two main types of CRTs: annuity trusts, in which you establish the annual payment amount at the creation of the trust, with payments remaining fixed for the life of the trust; and unitrusts, in which you establish the payment percentage at the creation of the trust, with payments varying each year based on the value of the trusts assets each year on the annual valuation date, typically January 1.

CRTs can be funded with cash, appreciated securities or certain other assets. Since CRTs are tax-exempt, appreciated assets transferred to the trust can then be sold without creating an immediately taxable capital gain. That means that 100 percent of the trust assets can be reinvested to generate income and appreciation. The donor defines the annual trust distribution amount (annuity trust) or percentage (unitrust) at the outset of the trust. Annual trust payments typically range from five to nine percent. The taxation of the trust payments to the income beneficiary depends on the character of the income earned by the trust (ordinary, capital gain, tax-free or return of capital).

In the year the trust is funded, the donor receives a charitable income tax deduction for a portion of the fair market value of the assets contributed to the trust. The deduction is not 100 percent of the value because the donor or other designated beneficiary will receive payments from the trust. The amount of the deduction varies with the number and ages of the income beneficiary(ies) as well as the trust payment rate and interest rates when the trust is funded.

Assets in a CRT are no longer part of your estate and avoid any estate taxes that may otherwise be due upon your death. Finally, CRTs eliminate your money management concerns since the trustee of the trust, selected by the donor, is responsible for managing the money.