Leave a Legacy of Housing, Care, and Hope
For many friends of Cornerstone Community Outreach, generosity is not only about meeting urgent needs today. It is also about helping ensure that families and individuals experiencing homelessness will continue to find housing, care, dignity, and a pathway toward home for years to come.
A legacy gift allows you to make a lasting impact through your financial and estate planning. These gifts can help sustain Cornerstone’s mission into the future while honoring your values, caring for your loved ones, and supporting work that matters deeply to you.
Meaningful Ways to Leave a Legacy
There are several ways to include Cornerstone in your long-term giving plans:
A Gift in Your Will or Trust
One of the simplest ways to make a legacy gift is to name Cornerstone Community Outreach as a beneficiary in your will or trust. This can be done as:
- A percentage of your estate
- A specific dollar amount
- A remainder gift after other distributions are made
This type of gift allows you to care for your family first while also extending your generosity to help neighbors facing homelessness in the years ahead.
A Gift from Your IRA, 401(k), or Annuity
You may also be able to name Cornerstone as a beneficiary of a retirement account, such as an IRA, 401(k), 403(b), or annuity. For some donors, this can be a tax-wise way to give because charitable organizations may be able to receive these assets without the same income tax burden that individual heirs could face.
Charitable Gift Annuities and Other Planned Gifts
Some donors may benefit from planned giving tools such as a Charitable Gift Annuity, Donor-Advised Fund, or Charitable Remainder Trust. These options can help align your charitable goals with your broader financial plan, and may provide income, tax, or estate planning benefits depending on your situation.
Partnering with Covenant Trust
Cornerstone is grateful to work with Covenant Trust to help donors explore legacy giving options. Covenant Trust can help individuals and families think through charitable giving as part of a thoughtful financial and investment plan, including gifts through wills, trusts, retirement accounts, charitable gift annuities, donor-advised funds, and other planned giving tools.
Because every situation is unique, we encourage you to consult your own legal, financial, and tax advisors before making decisions about your estate or charitable giving plans. http://covenanttrust.com/
Your Legacy Can Help Open the Door
A legacy gift to Cornerstone helps continue the work of welcoming people in crisis, providing dignified housing, connecting people to care, and walking alongside them toward stability and housing.
Your generosity today can become part of someone else’s future hope.
To learn more about including Cornerstone Community Outreach in your legacy giving plans, please contact us at info@ccolife.org. We would be honored to have a conversation with you.