Planned Giving

Planned giving assures the future success of Cornell College. You may provide generous support for Cornell and its mission through planned giving arrangements and estate plans.

This section of our website is dedicated exclusively to your options for making a planned gift. If you would like to speak with one of the development team in person regarding your thoughts about planned giving, please contact our office and we will be happy to assist you.

Monthly Features
Featured articles: new content monthly, consisting of three or four articles on a variety of timely planned giving topics.

Build Your Gift
Have you considered making a gift to us, but you're just not sure what type of gift to make? Complete the step-by-step process that will help you decide.

Compare Gifts
Whether you want to eliminate taxes or benefit from an increased income stream, there is a gift to fit every objective. The chart in this section details a gift vehicle for every goal.

Essentials
This section is a group of articles explaining the basic documents everyone should own, such as a will or power of attorney document.

What to Give
This section presents the fundamentals of using particular assets to make charitable donations (i.e., cash, appreciated securities, real estate).

Ways to Give
This section provides an overview of vehicles used to make planned gifts (i.e., charitable remainder trusts, bequests).

Bequest Language
If you plan to make a charitable gift by will, please think it through carefully. Then, meet with your attorney to discuss and update your will. Tell him or her exactly what you want to do. Be as clear as possible in describing what you want given to whom. This page contains great examples of how to spell things out to your satisfaction.

Quiz Yourself
How much do you know about wills? Or life insurance? Or planned giving in general? Take these quizzes and find out.

Gift Calculator
Within articles featured on our site, you are able to perform sample calculations relevant to the article you are reading. For example, an article on charitable remainder annuity trusts could have a link where you can perform a calculation showing the charitable deduction and annuity payment that could result from a particular gift.

Professional Advisors
This section contains several stories from professional advisors. Benefit from their experiences and learn from their mistakes.

eBrochures
Discover valuable lessons with our free ebrochures. Get your ebrochures on a variety of estate planning and planned giving topics. Click on an ebrochure title to send an e-mail with your request to Cornell. Then, we'll e-mail you a copy of the brochure. Over a dozen topics to choose from!

Make Your Financial Gift to Cornell
Cornell College depends on contributions of all sizes from alumni, parents and friends in order to sustain and enhance its excellence in liberal arts education. To make a gift to Cornell College, this page will get you started.