The National 4-H Heritage Club

You may remember starting your 4-H club meeting by pledging your head, heart, hands, and health so your community, and even the world, were better places for all to live. For you and many other 4-H friends and alumni, many years have passed since you last recited the words of the 4-H pledge and motto. Now, you have the opportunity to recite these words again by becoming a member of a new 4-H club: The National 4-H Heritage Club, National 4-H Council’s Planned Giving Society.

The National 4-H Heritage Club enables you to join with others who have demonstrated a strong passion and support for 4-H’s future by naming National 4-H Council in their estate plans. Anyone who has made a planned gift to National 4-H Council and completed a Declaration of Intent is eligible for membership in the National 4-H Heritage Club. There are no fees or minimum required to become a member of the National 4-H Heritage Club.

Ways to Make a Planned Gift

Legacy gifts to National 4-H Council can be made using a variety of planned giving vehicles:

• bequests through wills and trusts
   
• charitable remainder annuity trusts
   
• insurance policies
   
• gifts of securities
   
• gifts of cash
   

Contact us to learn more about vehicles that you feel may be better suited to your particular financial needs and plans. We accept "unrestricted" gifts and will also be glad to discuss gifts that you want to direct to specific program areas. Our goal is to accurately understand and record the intent of your gifts to 4-H.

Sample Bequest Language

The most commonly used vehicle for making a legacy gift to National 4-H Council is a bequest included in a will or trust. Sample bequest language is provided that you may wish to use when working with your attorney or estate planner. You are under no obligation, however, to use this language in order to leave an estate gift to National 4-H Council.

"I give (the sum, percentage of estate, or description of property) to National 4-H Council, 7100 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20815 to be used for its general unrestricted purposes."

With a separate Memorandum of Agreement, gifts may be designated to benefit existing funds, or (for gifts of $25,000 and above) to create new endowed funds.