The Youth Haven Foundation, Inc.
“Leave a Legacy for the Kids”

The Youth Haven Foundation was founded to assist in securing Youth Haven’s ability to continue to provide its services long term to at-risk children and fragile families. Please consider making a planned gift to the Youth Haven Foundation. By doing so, you are ensuring the uninterrupted continuation of vital programs for suffering children and their families in our neighborhoods.

Why Give To The Youth Haven Foundation?

• Flexibility – The Foundation offers highly individualized giving programs. Representatives from the Foundation will work with you and your attorney and financial advisors in developing the best planned gift for you.
  
• Longevity – The Foundation has been here for over 13 years and will be here in the future. Youth Haven has been providing continuous services since 1972.
  Accountability – The Foundation makes a full accounting on a regular basis through reports certified by our independent auditors
  
• Satisfaction & Accessibility – Donors will receive periodic updates on what is happening at Youth Haven and are able to meet directly with the members of the Board of Youth Haven and the Foundation to answer any questions that they may have.

What are Planned Gifts?
A planned gift may be made through a will, retirement plan, real estate, bargain sale, life insurance policy or other capital asset. Deferred gift vehicles are bequests, gift plans that generate income during one’s lifetime, trusts that pay income to a charity with the remainder passing to heirs, or contract designations and remainder interests in personal residence. To learn more about planned giving options, please contact Ron McSwiney, Youth Haven’s Director of Development at ron.mcswiney@youthhaven.net for our e-guide “Leaving a Legacy for the Kids.”

Creation of Endowment Funds Using Planned Gifts
There are many types of endowment funds to meet your charitable objectives. Endowment funds are established by a donor agreement, which names the account, describes the planned gift, specifies that a certain percentage of the planned gift must be and is irrevocable and states how the income is to be spent. The following is a sample list of Endowment Funds.

• Named Endowment Funds – created in recognition of the donor(s) or to honor or commemorate an individual.
  • Named Endowment in support of designated management positions, such as The Robert Lee Telford Memorial Chair for the Executive Director of Youth Haven
  • Named Endowment supporting designated programs, such as Emergency Shelter, Natural Helper, Child Care Center, or DARE To Be You
  • Named General Endowment for unrestricted endowment