to the Woodstock, IL Challenger Learning Center

Whether supported through an outright gift or planned gift, all Woodstock Challenger Center programs are made possible through the generosity and commitment of individuals like you. A planned gift to the Woodstock, IL Challenger Center helps ensure the future of the programs we provide in our community. It also helps further your financial goals.

Planned gifts include gifts made through your will, charitable gift annuities, gift life insurance, pooled income funds, and charitable lead trusts.

Bequest

Many of our supporters make charitable gifts by naming the Woodstock, IL Challenger Center as a beneficiary in their wills. The Federal government encourages these gifts or bequests by allowing an unlimited estate tax charitable deduction.

To make a bequest to Woodstock, IL Challenger Center, the following language may be helpful to your lawyer:  I give, devise, and bequeath to the Woodstock, IL Challenger Center for Space Science Education the sum of [Blank Space] (or otherwise describe the gift or specify a percentage of the estate).

There are three ways you can make a bequest:

• Specific Bequest
  You designate a specific dollar amount, specific percentage, or specific property to Challenger Center.
• Residual Bequest
  Your estate will pay all debts, taxes, expenses, and specific bequests. The remaining amount—the residue—will be transferred to Challenger Center.
• Contingent Bequest
  You can state that Woodstock Challenger Center receives all or a portion of your estate only under certain circumstances. For example, you can name Challenger Center as a beneficiary of your estate only if there are no surviving close family members. Childless couples sometimes provide for the entire estate to go to the surviving spouse, or if the spouse does not survive, to Challenger Center.

The Legacy Society

When you are a planned gift donor, Woodstock Challenger Center will honor you with membership in our Legacy Society. If you have already designated a gift to Woodstock Challenger Center in your will or estate plan, please contact our Executive Director, or Woodstock Challenger Center's Development Office.

We realize that with your special gift, you consider us to be part of your family. We want to do our best to keep you informed as to how your gift will be used, and to give you the opportunity to tell us of your wishes.

Additional Information

If you are interested in including the Woodstock, IL Challenger Center in your will and would like additional information, please contact a Development representative.

Challenger Learning Center
Steve Otten                                                                                                                                Executive Director
222 Church Street
Woodstock, IL USA 60098

(815) 338-7722  Ext. 10

giving@challenger