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Lovers Lane Foundation
The Lovers Lane Foundation was founded in 1980 as a non-profit company to hold permanent investments that, over time, will grow and produce income that can be used for charitable purposes.
To help us meet our Biblical challenge to give, the Lovers Lane Foundation has developed a planned giving program. The best way for any donor to give depends on a number of factors: situation in life, financial goals, charitable intentions, and the specific ways in which the Foundation can help fulfill a donor’s plans.
A variety of vehicles can be used when giving to the Foundation. Some have tax characteristics that can make giving even more attractive.
Following are some of the options and the benefits of each:
  • Cash - easy to give and receive; is usually tax-deductible
  • Real estate or appreciated securities – can offer significant tax and income advantages to the donor
  • Life insurance – provides an excellent way to make a gift to the Foundation
  • Memorials – can be established in the name of the donor, the family or friends
  • Charitable IRA – is valuable to those not eligible to deduct their annual IRA contribution
  • Educational or Retirement Unitrusts – can provide tax advantages and income for education or retirement needs, then later revert to the Foundation
  • Life Income Plans – can provide lifetime income, then later revert to the Foundation
  • Charitable gift annuities – can establish a lifetime annuity, then later revert to the Foundation
  • Estate Gifts – an important and easy way to make tax-favored gifts
  • Wills – the most common estate planning tool, in which a donor can designate to the Foundation a certain asset, a percentage of the estate, or the residual of the estate after other gifts are made to loved ones
To give to the Lovers Lane United Methodist Church Foundation is to help ensure that this family of faith will continue to reach out to one another, to the community and the world for years to come. The church urges the members to prayerfully consider ways in which they might make the Foundation part of their stewardship.
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