Watch Meets Listen
Ways to Give
NEPM has created the following ways and means for interested individuals, families, corporations and foundations to help provide the financial resources necessary to meet its programmatic and goals. Individuals, families, businesses, corporations and foundations can make donations to NEPM through gifts of cash, securities, life insurance, life-income gifts or other deferred gift options. Gifts may also be made as memorials or tributes to loved ones.
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If you have questions about the campaign or how you can continue to support the NEPM mission please contact:
Heather Gawron
Senior Director of Development
413-258-8629
Cash Gifts
You may wish to consider supporting the Campaign through an outright gift of cash or by making payments on a pledge over several years. Cash gifts provide donors with an immediate income tax deduction for the full gift amount.
Gifts of Securities and Securities Transfers
You may wish to consider the benefits of making a gift of securities. Some donors find that a gift of this type can provide significant tax advantages. NEPM is fully capable of receiving securities transfers. If you would like to transfer securities in support of the Campaign, or would like further information, please contact the development office.
Matching Gifts
Many corporations sponsor Matching Gift Programs under which an employee’s charitable donation is matched with a contribution by the corporation. In this way donors can easily leverage the value of their
contribution; in some cases, the matching contribution is as high as three to one.
Memorials and Tributes
NEPM gratefully acknowledges gifts in
honor or in memory of donors’ friends and loved ones. Without mentioning the amount of the contribution, acknowledgments are sent to those honored or to the families of those being memorialized by the gift.
Matching a Major Investment
The New Voices Campaign represents NEPM’s first major campaign as a combined entity.
In order to achieve our goals, we are reaching out to individuals, families, businesses, and private foundations to request multi-year support. With your help, we can meet our goals and give voice to new and deserving audiences and talent for years to come.
To honor and pay tribute to donors, the Board has established two permanent recognition programs for the New Voices Campaign. These programs demonstrate that you, your family or your firm, are dedicated to building a better, more informed and dynamic future for our community.
Won’t you please join with us now to build the legacy of public media to help ensure that NEPM can give voice to ongoing generations of listeners, viewers, and members? Your pledge or gifttoday is invaluable, and we are grateful for your support.
Donor Recognition Program
Seven gift levels have been established to honor donors. Participants in the Donor Recognition Program will have their names permanently displayed in a highly visible area of the NEPM’s Hampden Street Headquarters and in NEPM publications throughout the campaign and beyond. The seven levels of support are:
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Visionaries $250,000+
Innovators $100,000 - $249,999
Leaders $50,000 - $99,000
Partners $10,000 - $49,999
Pacesetters $5,000 - $9,999
Sustainers $2,500 - $4,999
Supporters $1,000 - $2,499
Special Dedication and Memorial Opportunities
Commonly known as ‘Named Gifts’, the Special Dedication and Memorial Opportunity Program will consist of plaques with donor wording affixed to rooms, departments and facilities at NEPM and also through naming of staff positions, named endowed funds etc.
Creative opportunities for donors to pool their commitments for a special or customized dedication are also available. Exceptional gifts may include on-air and/or online recognition.
Bequests and Planned Gifts
Bequests
Some donors may consider helping New England Public Media through their wills or estate plans. One way to help is by making a general bequest designating specific assets to NEPM. Another is by making NEPM a contingency beneficiary of assets in the event that a beneficiary predeceases you.
Charitable Gift Annuities
A charitable gift annuity is an easy way for donors to provide for themselves while giving the NEPM greater security in the future. Each charitable gift annuity pays a long term annual income to the donor —and/or another person, and eases annual income tax burdens. In addition, when donors fund a charitable gift annuity with appreciated long term assets, they may reduce a portion of their capital gains taxes. These annuities help secure the NEPM’s future by sustaining programs, staffing and the overall mission. Gift annuity rates are determined by the age of the person receiving the income.
Charitable Reminder Trusts
Some donors may choose to transfer assets in the form of cash, securities or property to a trust, naming a trustee(s) to manage the assets. The trustee(s) makes distributions in accordance with your wishes as expressed by the terms of the trust. The trust will distribute income to you and, if specified, to a second beneficiary such as a spouse or child each year. Following the death of the primary and secondary beneficiaries, the assets held in the trust are transferred to NEPM.