Council On Foundations - Skagit Community Foundation Blog YOur gifts, your community: it's up to you

When you include nonprofit organizations that you trust in your estate plans, your money is used as you intend rather than as taxed money for the government to use as it intends.Did you know you can avoid capital gains by donating appreciated stock? You can avoid taxes on retirement distributions if you have the distribution sent directly to your favorite cause? It's in your power to direct your assets to the local needs in the community rather than have them leave the county as t [...]