Ways to Give

Unrestricted Gift to the McAuley Fund

Your unrestricted gift does more than you realize! A gift to the McAuley Fund is used where it’s needed most and helps to enrich programs, including academics, arts, technology, athletics, campus ministry, financial aid and scholarship or helps with everyday operational expenses.

Scholarship and Financial Aid

As McAuley strives to make tuition affordable for families, providing assistance is more important than ever. Your gift will have a direct impact on a student’s ability to attend McAuley.

Event Sponsorship and Participation

Our Celebration Gala and our annual Fore the Macs: Playing It Forward Golf Outing are other ways to support McAuley students. Proceeds from these events support tuition assistance/scholarship for students.

WAYS TO GIVE

A gift to Mother McAuley helps to advance our mission and prepare young women for lives of leadership and service.

There are many opportunities to support McAuley and provide the lifetime advantage to our students.

Catherine’s Garden

Leave your mark at McAuley or remember that special person with a

commemorative brick in the beautiful Catherine’s Garden! Purchase a brick to honor your McAuley legacy family members, share a brick with your McAuley classmates or team, commemorate graduation, or remember a teacher, mentor or coach. Three sizes available • Standard $200 (8X7) • Large $300 (8X14) • Seating Stone $500 (14X8) For more information about Catherine’s Garden and purchasing a brick, please contact:

JoAnn Foertsch Altenbach ’76

773-881-6559 jaltenbach@mothermcauley.org

Employee Giving Programs

Double (or Triple) Your Donation!

Did you know that thousands of companies match donations made by their employees to organizations like ours?! Check with your employer about their giving program and multiply the impact of your gift for our students!

Planned Giving

Create a lasting impact – become a member of the Catherine McAuley Legacy Society

A planned gift to Mother McAuley indicates a commitment to the long-term success of the school and its students. Making a planned gift confers membership in the Catherine McAuley Legacy Society. Explore these ways to plan and give back now or in the future. Your gift helps McAuley remain strong while maximizing your generosity and providing tax benefits.

PLAN NOW, GIVE NOW

DONOR-ADVISED FUNDS

This option offers you the flexibility to recommend how much and how often donations are granted to qualified non-profit institutions.

APPRECIATED SECURITIES

Donors can contribute appreciated property, like securities or real estate, receive a charitable deduction for the full market value of the asset, and pay no capital gains tax on the transfer.

RETIREMENT PLAN REQUIRED MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION (RMD)

If you are 701/2 or older, you can give any amount up to $100,000 per year directly from your IRA to a qualified non-profit without having to pay income tax on the gift.

PLAN NOW, GIVE LATER

A GIFT IN YOUR WILL OR TRUST

Include McAuley in your will or trust today by a simple addition to your legal documents for a gift in the future.

RETIREMENT PLAN ASSETS

Name McAuley as a beneficiary of part or all of your retirement plan assets.

LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES

Consider donating all or part of your policies which will pass tax-free to a non-profit.

This information is intended to provide general gift planning information. We encourage you to consult with your own legal and financial advisors.

WHY PLAN?

Planned Giving allows donors to have a much greater financial impact to organizations in which they believe! Despite that fact, fewer than 10 percent of Americans utilize planned giving. Yet there’s a wide range of options for potential gift-givers, making it much easier to fit philanthropy into their budgets and long-term plans. Planned giving offers flexibility for donors from a broad range of financial backgrounds.

Additional information can be found at mothermcauley.org/ give/plannedgiving. For additional questions contact Mary Acker Klingenberger ’75 at 773-881-6504 or mklingenberger@mothermcauley.org

My parents instilled in me a sense of purpose and generosity. As part of the greatest generation, they understood the importance of being prepared for the future. They sacrificed to provide their children with a solid educational foundation that would serve them well in their lifetime. At the same time, they grew a modest estate to share with their children and others in hopes of improving the world for those to come. My parents inspired me to pay it forward. I was determined to build their gift during my working career in the non-profit sector and share these gifts with the causes I believed in.

Denise Cavanaugh ’60, founder of Cavanaugh, Hagan & Pierson (now CHP Mintz) and member of the founding group of Washington, D.C. women business owners who launched the National Association of Women Business Owners in 1975.

I have great respect for the parents of Mother McAuley and the challenges they face. Like my parents, each family has made a commitment to their daughter’s success and a financial commitment to their daughter’s education. They recognize the benefit of the McAuley lifetime advantage and the short-term and long-term impact for their daughters.

I am very committed to McAuley and want to help graduates who will go into the world empowered by the education they receive to become leaders in their families and their local and global communities. Armed with faith and conviction they will tackle problems like women’s issues, social justice and serving those in need. My planned gift to McAuley allows me to support future generations of young women who will make this world a better place.

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