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legacy giving :
Your Legacy in the Redwoods

Why Leave a Legacy Gift ?
Since our founding, the Redwood Forest Foundation has worked to establish community-based forests that protect critical habitat, restore watersheds, address climate change, and strengthen the regional economy. A legacy gift is an investment in that future. It protects, sustains, and restores our redwood forests and supports reforestation across the region and it ensures your values endure far beyond your lifetime.

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There are many ways to leave an enduring legacy. A few of the most common:

Bequests
in your will or living trust
Beneficiary designations
on retirement plans, life insurance, or financial accounts
Charitable
remainder trusts
Gifts of appreciated securities

(contact us for transfer instructions)

Charitable IRA rollovers, for those 70½ and older
Gifts of real estate or timberland
Your gift can take many forms

From cash and securities to property and forestland. Donated timberlands are stewarded according to the Foundation’s ecological and economic guidelines that acquiring adjoining lands reduces forest fragmentation and strengthens biodiversity and watershed protection.

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Bequests

Some of our supporters have chosen to remember the Foundation in their will or trust—a gift of a specific amount, a percentage of an estate, or property such as forestland. We are deeply honored by these gifts. Some donors share their plans with us in advance; others we learn of only later. Either way, we are grateful, and we work to honor each giver’s intent. If you are considering a bequestor planned gift, we would be honored to work with you and your advisors tocarry out your wishes.

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Free Planning Tools

The Foundation partners with FreeWill,a trusted online estate-planning platform, to help you create your legacy at nocost. Writing a legal will through FreeWill is free, valid in all 50 states,and takes less than 30 minutes.

FreeWill also offers free tools to create arevocable living trust and to designate beneficiaries fornon-probate assets—assets that pass outside your will, such as IRAs, 401(k)s, pensions, annuities, certain bank and brokerage accounts, and life insurancepolicies.

Information for Your Advisor

If you are working with an estate planner, the following language describes us as a beneficiary:“Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation.”For beneficiary designations, our legal name is Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc., and our TaxID (EIN) is 68-0404767.

Let Us Know

If you need assistance or have questions about your contribution, please contact our team.

Whatever form your support takes, we are grateful—and we pledge to be a careful steward ofthe redwood forests entrusted to our care.

Contact

Patrick Fitzgerald
Assistant Director, Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc.

(707) 409-5144