PAN donors may choose to support our work by citing us as a beneficiary in their will, or a recipient of a portion of their estate.
These dedicated people can then become part of PAN’s Safety Network.
Members of our Safety Network are acknowledged with the gift of a specially selected book each year. For your first such gift, we will send you Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood by Sandra Steingraber.
Your legacy, no matter what the amount, will be invested in a socially responsible manner and placed in our operating reserve to respond to critical emergencies and exciting new opportunities as well as helping us maintain consistency and effectiveness in leaner times (our investment policy is available upon request).
Gift and Legacy Planning
You can make a lasting contribution to PAN as a beneficiary in your will, or a recipient of a portion of your estate.
Bequests
Your charitable bequest is an important way to help keep PAN sustainable. There are several types of bequests for you to consider. Percentage is most flexible because it allows your gift to appreciate in your will no matter what asset is used. A specific bequest of an asset such as a retirement plan results in no income taxes paid on the plan by your estate. Residual bequests are often made after remembering relatives and friends, and usually in combination with a percentage bequest. When you place any of these types of bequests in your will or living trust and notify us, we will invite you to become a member of our Safety Network.
PAN recommends the following language for use in wills, with four examples of bequest types.
Percentage:
“I give, devise and bequeath to Pesticide Action Network North America, a non-profit corporation registered in the State of California, located at 49 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, ____% of my estate.”
Specific:
“I give, devise and bequeath to Pesticide Action Network North America, a non-profit corporation registered in the State of California, located at 49 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102,
Choose one:
1) The sum of $___________.”
2) ________shares of stock in ___________________Company.”
3) My real property commonly known as __________________.”
Residual:
“I give, devise and bequeath to Pesticide Action Network North America, a non-profit corporation registered in the State of California, located at 49 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, all the residue of my estate including real personal property.”
Contingent:
“In the event of the death of any of the beneficiaries, I give, devise and bequeath to Pesticide Action Network North America, a non-profit corporation of the State of California, located at 49 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, (percentage, specific, or residual language as above).”
For more information on how to register as part of PAN’s Safety Network please e-mail our development department or call (415) 981-1771.