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Ways to Give
There are many ways you can help support your hospital. Your tax-deductible gift will help us provide the best care to every patient every day. You can support the work of your local hospital with a designated gift for a specific project, medical area, or where it is most needed. Your gift can help us to support the work of a key service area such as cardiac or cancer care, or be designated for medical technologies that save lives through early diagnosis of disease. Regardless of the area you choose to support, your gift will make a difference in the lives of others. Gift methods:Online (by credit card or electronic check) By mail (pledge, credit card or check) By telephone (credit card) (423) 230-8550 Charitable gift annuities and other planned gifts Gift options:OnlineUse our Online Donation Form to support Wellmont Foundation. We have taken every precaution to provide you with a safe environment in which to make your donation and have partnered with Contribute.com for this process. Contribute.com is dedicated to providing the highest commercially attainable level of security and protection of privacy. In addition, neither Contribute.com nor Wellmont Foundation will give, sell, rent or trade any personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing or other purposes unless required to do so by law. As a non-profit organization, gifts to Wellmont Foundation are tax-deductible. By mailYou may send your check or credit card payment to:
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By telephoneCall (423) 230-8550 to make a gift by credit card or to speak to a Wellmont Foundation development officer. Our staff is available to assist you during regular business hours. If you call at another time, please leave a message and your call will be returned during regular business hours. In your willIncluding the foundation in your will is a very simple process and by making a bequest (a gift in your will), you can help support your hospital for years to come. You might consider giving specific property (such as real estate), a specific dollar amount, or a percent of your estate. You may use your will to benefit the hospital or medical area of your choice by instructing that the foundation receive a specific amount, a percentage of your estate, or a remainder amount. By making the foundation aware of your plans, we are able to fully understand your wishes. Please consult your attorney and financial advisors as appropriate. To learn more about making contributions through estate planning, please visit our informative Planned Giving Information pages. Please note that for this link, Wellmont Foundation has contracted with Stelter Inc., a private vendor, to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information for prospective benefactors. Matching giftsMany employers have matching-gift programs through which your generosity to Wellmont can be multiplied. As a non-profit organization, Wellmont Foundation is eligible for many matching-gift programs of corporations, foundations and other organizations. If your gift is eligible for a matching donation, please provide that information with your gift or contact Wellmont Foundation at (423) 230-8550. Planned giftsCharitable gift annuities and charitable trusts can help you support the mission of Wellmont Foundation, provide income for you and your loved ones, and reduce income and estate taxes. To find out more about annuities, trusts, and other estate planning tools, please visit our informative Planned Giving Information pages. Please note that for this link, Wellmont Foundation has contracted with Stelter Inc., a private vendor, to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information for prospective benefactors. Members of the Foundation’s Development staff will be pleased to work with you and your advisors in determining the type of gift that best meets your needs. Please call (423) 230-8555 or e-mail Todd.Norris@Wellmont.org. Your inquiry is confidential and involves no obligation. Stocks and other propertyGifts of appreciated property can be particularly attractive as a way of avoiding capital gains taxation on stocks or other property that has grown in value. These gifts must be made through a transfer of ownership to Wellmont Foundation prior to its sale. Please contact us to arrange a broker-to-broker transfer. Gifts of appreciated securities offer tax advantages including forgiveness of the tax on capital gain and an income tax charitable deduction for the fair market value of the securities. You also can make gifts of property such as real estate, life insurance, retirement accounts, works of art, jewelry and valued collections. These gifts provide tax advantages and may require independent appraisals to meet Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines. In memory or in honorAny gift can be made in memory or in honor of a special person or event (perhaps an anniversary or birthday). Such thoughtful gifts provide a way for you to express your sentiments in a meaningful way that will also help ensure quality healthcare for people today and in the future. When making your gift, please indicate the name of the person you wish to honor or memorialize and the special event if applicable. We will be honored to send a notification of your gift if you will also include those names and addresses in your note (gift amount is not disclosed). You may want to make this gift using our Online Donation Form or download and print this form to mail with your gift. If you have any questions please call (423) 230-8550 for assistance. Obituary InformationWellmont Foundation development staff can help you include memorial gift information in obituaries. Sample sentences include: “The family requests that memorial gifts be made to Wellmont Foundation: (Hospice Care/Heart Center/hospital name/other) PO Box 1069, Kingsport, TN 37662 or online at www.wellmont.org” “Gifts in memory of Mrs. Jones can be made to Wellmont Foundation’s Hospice program, PO Box 1069, Kingsport, TN 37662 or online at www.WellmontFoundation.org” Designating your giftWhen making a donation to Wellmont Foundation, you may state the purpose for which you would like the gift to be used. Please consider broad categories such as "education," "cancer," "hospice," "capital projects" or "XYZ hospital" to assure that your desired gift purpose can be met. Our Online Donation Form allows you to choose among several options. For more information, please send an e-mail to the Wellmont Foundation Development staff or call (423) 230-8550. Your entire gift is used for its intended purposeWellmont Foundation is fortunate to have a long history of generous contributors who helped build an operating endowment fund of sufficient size that all of the Foundation’s operational expenses are paid through its income. As a result, every penny of your outright gift is able to be utilized towards the purpose for which it is intended. Event-related transactions are subject to reductions for accounting purposes. ReceiptTo confirm that we receive your gift and for tax purposes, we will send you a letter documenting the gift amount. |
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