“It feels like such an amazing opportunity to be able to support an organization I believe in so deeply, to play a part in seeing that it lasts beyond my time.

—Jim Moore, poet, cofounder of the Loft, and member of The Loft Living Legacy 

Planned Giving for Future Generations of Writers and Readers

The Loft Living Legacy offers friends and supporters of the Loft a way to leave a literary inheritance for the next generation of literature lovers. By providing a planned gift in your will or designating the Loft as your preferred memorial gift recipient, you demonstrate your support of the Loft’s mission to support the artistic development of writers, to foster a writing community, and to build an audience for literature. 

Why a Planned Gift for the Loft?

Can you imagine a future without literature–without a space for readers and writers to meet–without stories to tell each other? We can’t either.

Nor can we imagine a future without the Loft. We will always need to tell our stories, to offer healing words, to provide neutral ground for differing voices to be heard, and to record our world and the events that shape our lives. The Loft gives us this and much more.

The Loft Living Legacy: Writing the Next Chapter offers those who have a passion for and love of literature a way to continue to support writers and the literary world. 

Planning Your Gift

It is important to consult with your attorney and/or financial planner to decide upon the type of gift that is best suited to your unique situation. 

What is Planned Giving

Planned giving is the term used to describe a variety of strategies that help you support a nonprofit organization that you believe in, while also advancing your own financial and personal goals. For example, a planned gift to the Loft, Inc. may result in savings on income, estate, and capital gains taxes. Planned giving options can also benefit your children or grandchildren. And planned gifts are flexible: they can be a gift of cash, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, IRAs, real estate, or even the royalties from your book.

While we cannot provide legal advice or technical assistance with the preparation of your estate plans, we are happy to provide some basic information on the many ways to include the Loft Literary Center in your estate plans. It is important to note that you need not have great wealth to do this. Rather, designating the Loft to receive assets from your estate plans may be a wonderful opportunity to impact your favorite cause (the future of reading and creative writing) in a way that you cannot afford at the moment.

What Is Planned Giving?

Statement of Intent

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Want to know more? Contact Loft Development 612-215-2582.