Protect Iowa's resources
with an INHF Charitable Gift Annuity

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Does the idea of earning secure income and saving taxes while protecting seasonal wetlands and river oxbows, preserving diverse woodlands and restoring hill prairies appeal to you? Meeting your financial and conservation goals simultaneously may sound like a pipe dream, but it can be a reality. Just ask anyone who has established a charitable gift annuity with the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation.

They've found, that a charitable gift annuity can provide a haven from the soft economy, volatile stock market and meager interest rates on bank deposits. A charitable gift annuity is a simple contract between you — the donor — and INHF. A donor gives cash, appreciated securities or possibly other assets to INHF in return for lifetime
fixed payments. (You choose whether you want the payments for your life alone or for the lives of yourself and a spouse or another person.) A portion of these payments is tax-free, and the donor also gets a tax deduction for a portion of the value of the the charitable contribution. That's the part of a charitable gift annuity that allows you to earn secure income and save taxes.

And the part that allows you to protect, preserve and restore Iowa's wild places? That's the portion of the gift that remains after all the payments have been made. Naturally you decide how the remainder will be used--for every gift annuity agreement is unique and reflects the interests of the individual donor. Yet all INHF charitable gift annuity donors have a common desire to share our natural heritage with "those who follow."

For more information, e-mail Cheri Grauer, Gift Planner, or call (515) 288-1846.