X-Message-Number: 22534 From: "David Pizer" <> References: <001301c37d17$bb917de0$> Subject: Re: Fund raising, trusts, bequests Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:02:53 -0700 ANNOUNCEMENT At the Alcor Board meeting on Saturday, October 4th, at 10:30am, trust attorney Marvin Kantor will make a presentation to the Alcor Board and those others in attendance. All Alcor members are welcome to attend the regular board meetings. Mr. Kantor will talk to Alcor about: 1. Personal trusts where Alcor Members can attempt to preserve their assets while they are in suspension and get them back at reanimation time. There are advantages to the cryonicist to use a 501c3 charity in these trusts. That charity can be Alcor. So when a member tries to "take it with him/her," so to speak, Alcor will be getting dividends along the way. 2. Charitable remainder and charitable lead trusts. Where members donate appreciated assets to Alcor now in exchange for tax relief and other benefits and sometimes a balance of first life cycle income. 3. Bequests. Where people can leave money to Alcor at their legal death and their estate gets certain tax benefits. Members who are planning to leave money to Alcor at their legal death can learn ways that will help Alcor to get all the benefits they intended to leave to Alcor and minimize any interruptions or invasions of their plans. After the presentation, Mr. Kantor will answer any questions. For some Alcor members it might make good financial sense to investigate certain approved strategies for their financial planning that give them tax benefits, and at the same time help Alcor so that Alcor can do a better job for them when the time comes. I hope to see you there. David Pizer Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22534