Here’s how you can help:
Annual gift
With your annual, unrestricted gift to PDF you join with other donor activists and progressive foundations to create a significant financial resource to advance community organizing throughout the United States and internationally. PDF’s entire budget is supported each year by our Annual Fund. Each gift is important and helps to build a lasting movement for positive and fundamental social change.
Appreciated securities
By giving stock, bonds or mutual fund shares that have increased in value since you acquired them, you may avoid paying capital gains on the appreciated value and make a larger gift to PDF. If you itemize on your federal tax return, you may claim a charitable income tax deduction up to 30% of you adjusted gross income for such gifts and carry the excess forward over the ensuing five years.
Celebrate others
Recognize someone special who strives for a peaceful and just world. Commemorate a birth, a new union, an anniversary or a holiday with a gift to PDF. Memorialize the memory of someone special who is no longer with you in this life. When you provide us with contact information, we’ll send a greeting to the person or their family to announce your thoughtful gift.
Donor Advised Funds
Use DAF Direct to make a gift to PDF through your donor advised fund at a financial institution like Fidelity, Schwab or BNY Mellon.
Or establish your own Donor Advised Fund at PDF.
Leave a legacy for peace and justice
While more complicated forms of giving may have special tax advantages in certain situations, just a simple bequest written into a will can ensure the future of PDF.
Bequests can take a variety of forms. You can leave PDF a percentage of your estate, a specific sum of money, or you can make PDF the residual beneficiary of your estate after other bequest. Alternatively, you can make PDF a contingent beneficiary in the even other beneficiaries die before you. If you would like to add a bequest to PDF to your will but do not want to rewrite the will, you may do so by adding a codicil to your existing will. (Your attorney can advise you on this procedure.) In any of these cases, you may leave the gift to general support, endowment support, or a specific purpose that fits within PDF”s mission, vision, and goals.
Insurance policy
Donors may make PDF a beneficiary of a life insurance policy—one that no longer servers its original purpose, one that names PDF as a contingent beneficiary, or one purchased specifically to benefit PDF.
Planned gift
Charitable lead or remainder trusts and other forms of planned giving support PDF’s growth while providing substantial benefits to the donor.
Employer matching gifts
Many companies offer employees a matching gift benefit that, in effect, could actually double, sometimes even triple your gift to PDF. Companies have various methods by which you can submit your matching gift request: online forms, automated phone systems or a paper form that you submit to PDF. Contact your company’s human resources officer or web site to find out more. To see a list of companies that have a matching gift program, click on the link below.
