Legacy Giving: Create a Lasting Impact
Imagine leaving a legacy that saves lives and builds a brighter future for communities in need. By including APOPO in your estate planning, you ensure that your kindness and generosity continue to make a difference for generations to come. APOPO is dedicated to using innovative methods to tackle global issues, such as landmine detection and tuberculosis diagnosis. Through the training of scent detection animals, APOPO has revolutionized these critical areas, making communities safer and healthier.
Consider this: landmines affect an estimated 60 million people across more than 60 countries, posing a constant threat to the safety and livelihoods of countless families. In addition, tuberculosis remains a devastating global health issue, with approximately 10 million new cases reported each year. By supporting APOPO, you help provide solutions that protect and uplift vulnerable populations.
Your legacy gift can empower APOPO to expand its reach, enhancing safety, health, and prosperity in regions that need it most. With your legacy, APOPO can continue to save lives, restore hope, and build stronger communities worldwide.
Planned Giving: Secure the Future
Planned giving is a powerful way to support APOPO’s mission to detect landmines and tuberculosis using our HeroRATs and HeroDOGs. These unique and highly trained animals, along with our dedicated Mine Action and Tuberculosis Detection teams, provide vital services that make the world safer and healthier. Yourvplanned gift helps ensure that this life-saving work continues well into the future.
Become a Legacy Donor: How You Can Help
Becoming a legacy donor is easier than you might think. By including APOPO in your Will, you can make a significant and lasting impact. Here’s how you can become a legacy donor:
1. Decide on Your Gift: Consider what type of gift you would like to leave. This can be a specific amount of money, a percentage of your estate, or specific assets like real estate, stocks, or a life insurance policy.
2. Consult Your Financial Planner or Attorney: Work with a financial planner or legal professional to update your Will or create a new one.
3. Inform Us: While you don’t have to tell us about your decision, we’d love to thank you and keep you informed about how your gift will make a difference. Contact us at emma.mortiboy@apopo.org
The Benefits of Legacy Gifts
Legacy gifts provide several benefits, including:
– Significant Impact: Your gift ensures long-term support for APOPO’s mission, making a difference in the lives of people affected by landmines and tuberculosis.
– Tax Benefits: In many jurisdictions, legacy gifts can provide substantial tax benefits, reducing the taxable portion of your estate.
– Personal Fulfillment: Leaving a legacy gift is a way to make a lasting contribution to a cause you care deeply about, ensuring your values live on.
– Estate Tax Benefits: Including a charitable gift in your estate planning can reduce estate taxes , maximizing the benefit to your heirs and the causes you support.
Your Legacy in Action
Your legacy gift can transform lives by:
– Clearing Landmines: Your gift helps train detection animals to quickly find landmines so we can safely destroy them, returning safe land for communities to live, work, and play.
– Fighting Tuberculosis: Your support enables our HeroRATs and Tuberculosis Detection teams to quickly and accurately detect TB, leading to faster treatment and better outcomes for patients.
– Supporting Research and Innovation: Your legacy gift can also support groundbreaking research and the development of new applications for our HeroRATs and HeroDOGs, such as wildlife conservation and disaster response.
Real Stories, Real Impact
APOPO has a proven track record of making significant impacts in communities worldwide. From clearing landmines in Angola to detecting tuberculosis in Tanzania, our HeroRATs and HeroDOGs, along with our dedicated teams, have saved countless lives and transformed entire communities. Read some of APOPO’s success stories here.
The Benefits of Creating a Will
Writing a Will ensures your loved ones are taken care of and your wishes are honored. It also allows you to:
– Provide for Dependents: Ensure your children or dependents are cared for by nominating a legal guardian.
– Support Your Partner: Protect your partner’s rights, especially if you are not married.
– Reduce Inheritance Tax: By leaving a gift to APOPO or another nonprofit, you can reduce the inheritance tax on your estate.
– Express Funeral Wishes: Leave clear instructions for your funeral, providing peace of mind for your family.
– Clarify Property Ownership: Avoid complications with jointly owned or overseas properties by specifying your wishes.
– Leave a larger gift to your preferred charity or nonprofit: Including a nonprofit organization, such as APOPO, in your will is a way of providing a larger donation to your favorite nonprofit in the future, even if you are unable to do so now.
Estate Planning and Financial Planning
Incorporating APOPO into your estate planning can provide significant benefits over time. Consult with a financial advisor or planner to understand the tax advantages and tax implications of your charitable donations. By planning ahead and deciding on the type of legacy gift you would like to leave, you can ensure that your future gift has the maximum impact for both you and the charitable organization you are writing into your will.
Types of Gifts
There are many types of gifts you can consider for your legacy plans ranging from the more common types to more unusual options:
– Monetary Gifts: A specific amount or percentage of your estate.
– Real Estate: Donate property to support our mission.
– Life Insurance Policy: Name APOPO as a beneficiary and leave us the gift of life insurance.
– Retirement Fund: Include APOPO in your retirement plans.
– Life Estate: Retain use of your property during your lifetime while ensuring it benefits APOPO in the future.
Building Stronger Relationships with Our Legacy Donors
At APOPO, we value our relationships with legacy donors. We ensure transparency and honor your wishes. You can choose to have your donation publicized, inspiring others with your generosity, or you can opt to remain totally anonymous. Your privacy and preferences are our top priority.
Your Legacy in Safe Hands
Legacy giving ensures the continued success of APOPO’s life-saving mission. By including APOPO in your will or estate plans, you can create a lasting impact, helping us to clear landmines and save lives for generations to come.
Why Legacy Giving Matters
Legacy gifts provide a sustainable, long-term source of funding that allows organizations like APOPO to plan and carry out our operations with confidence. These contributions are essential for the training and deployment of our scent-detection animals, ensuring they continue their vital work in the most affected regions.
Making It Easy for You
We understand that considering a legacy gift is a significant decision. APOPO is committed to making this process as straightforward and reassuring for you as possible. Our team is here to provide all the information and support you need to feel confident in your decision to leave a lasting legacy of safety and hope.
Trusted and Transparent
APOPO prides itself on transparency and effectiveness. We are proud to have received a top rating from Charity Navigator, a testament to our commitment to excellence and accountability. You can review our latest annual report, hundreds of reviews from our donors on Great Nonprofits, and our rating on Charity Navigator.
At APOPO, we prioritize accountability and efficiency, ensuring your contributions make a real difference. An impressive 92% of every donation goes directly to our life-saving work on the ground. We keep our fundraising costs to just 8%, which is notably low compared to many organizations. This means your support truly reaches and impacts the communities we serve. You can be confident that your legacy gift will be used effectively to create lasting change.
By leaving a legacy gift to APOPO, you ensure that your commitment to humanitarian mine action and TB detection endures, creating a safer world for future generations. With your help, we can continue to train and deploy our scent-detection animals around the world, making a lasting difference in the fight against landmines and TB.
Other Ways to Give
Legacy gifts are just one way to support APOPO. There are many other ways to contribute to our mission, from one-time donations to adopting a HeroRAT or HeroDOG. Explore more options on our Support Us page.
In Memory Donations and Tribute Gifts are special ways to honor and remember loved ones.
In Memory Donations are contributions made to APOPO in remembrance of someone who has passed away. These donations can be requested instead of traditional funeral gifts or flowers, providing a meaningful way for friends and family to pay their respects while supporting a cause the deceased cared about.
Tribute Gifts are donations made in honor of someone special, such as celebrating a birthday, anniversary, or another significant occasion. These gifts recognize the honoree’s impact on the donor’s life and extend that impact through the support of APOPO’s vital work.
Both In Memory Donations and Tribute Gifts provide a lasting tribute to loved ones
Get in Touch
For more information about leaving a legacy to APOPO, please contact us at herorats@apopo.org or use the form below. We promise to handle your questions about legacy giving with respect and confidentiality, and there’s no pressure to make a decision.
Together, we can create a world free from the threat of landmines and tuberculosis. Your legacy gift to APOPO is not just a donation—it’s a promise for a safer, healthier future.
Thank you for considering a legacy gift and becoming an APOPO future donor. Your generous support ensures a future where land is safe from landmines, and communities are free from the burden of tuberculosis. Together, we can make a lasting difference.
