Giving a Gift to ICCF Community Homes in Your Will

When you give a gift (also known as a “bequest” or “charitable bequest”) to ICCF Community Homes in your will, you help ensure that ICCF will continue to make a difference well beyond your lifetime. You also model to your loved ones a legacy of generosity and concern for others.

“Safe and affordable housing is indispensable if individuals and families are to flourish. ICCF Community Homes has been a leader in this essential struggle for years, and that’s why we’ve gratefully supported its work and also provided for its future endeavors in our estate plan.”

Larry & Mary Gerbens

A Bequest Gift to ICCF in your Will is:

Flexible

It lets you balance your charitable goals with the future needs of your loved ones. Because you aren’t parting with assets today, you have the assurance of knowing that you can change your mind if your living expenses or medical costs dramatically change down the road.

Versatile

You can assign a gift of a specific asset or a specified amount in your will. Or, because you can’t predict the exact size of your final estate, making a gift by using a percentage amount is a good way to maintain the same giving proportions for your loved ones and the charities like ICCF whose missions matter most to you.

Simple to Accomplish

One or two sentences is all it takes. Use the Sample Language indicated below to give a bequest gift to ICCF Community Homes in your will. If you want to include multiple charities in your will, you can streamline your estate plan giving through Barnabas Foundation.

If you have not yet completed your Will, click here to learn about Six Critical Components of Your Estate Plan.

Sample Language

Bequest Gift to be used as needed

Bequest Gift to be used for a designated purpose

I give to ICCF Community Homes, tax identification # 38-1903026, a nonprofit ministry with its principal offices located at 415 Martin Luther King Jr. St. SE, Suite 100, Grand Rapids MI 49507, [the sum of $_ ] OR [ _% of the residue of my estate], to be used for [insert your designated purpose]. If, in its opinion, the need for funds for the designated purpose no longer exists, ICCF is authorized to use these funds for a similar purpose.

Learn about designating your gift.

Let us know

If you have already included a gift to ICCF Community Homes in your will or estate plan, thank you!

Please let us know so that we can make sure your gift is used as you intend, and so that we can plan ahead to best meet the ministry needs about which you care so much. In addition, we want to welcome you as members of the ICCF Homes & Hope Legacy Society, together with all ICCF’s faithful planned gift donors.

Let Us Know

QUESTIONS? CONTACT:

Hank Kroondyk
ICCF Planned Giving Specialist

616-336-9333 x 403
[email protected]