South Carolina ETV

ETV Endowment of South Carolina
401 E. Kennedy St. Suite B-1
Spartanburg, SC 29302

Estate Planning

Our ETV Endowment members give important gifts to support the daily programming for ETV and ETV Radio. If you want to invest in the future of public broadcasting in our state, consider naming the ETV Endowment as a beneficiary in your will or estate plan.

Planned Giving: An Investment in Our Future

For 50 years, South Carolina ETV has provided quality programs that educate our children, engage our citizens and celebrate our local, national and international culture. The support of this work rests in the hands of our members and contributors who embrace our mission to provide life-long learning to enrich the lives of our viewers and listeners of all ages.

We want to continue this tradition of quality programming far into the future. Like a college, university, church or hospital, ETV and ETV Radio need a stable source of long-term funding. The inclusion of the ETV Endowment in your estate planning becomes a lasting and significant gift to the citizens of South Carolina and provides the foundation of ETV and ETV Radio's financial security for generations to come.

Planned gifts provide an opportunity not only to realize your personal financial and charitable goals but also to strengthen ETV and ETV Radio for the future through the creation of your personal legacy. Through a planned gift, you may be able to increase your current income or provide additional retirement income while reducing income and estate taxes.

The Legacy Society: Our Visionaries

The Legacy Society honors and recognizes a very special group of visionaries who have chosen to invest in the future of ETV and ETV Radio by including the ETV Endowment in their estate plans.

Members of our Legacy Society share a strong common bond of generosity and leadership, critical to ETV and ETV Radio's continued success in the years to come. The establishment of the Legacy Society enables us to recognize those who are helping to ensure the future of public broadcasting here in South Carolina. Their gifts reach beyond our current audience to those whose names we have yet to know, and the benefit of their personal legacies is immeasurable.

BENEFITS OF LEGACY SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

- Special Legacy Society memento
- Lifetime subscription to SCENE magazine
- The Endowment Insider quarterly newsletter
- Invitations to special performances, events and Annual Donor Appreciation Luncheon
- VIP tours of ETV Studios
- Annual recognition in SCENE magazine (unless anonymous membership is preferred)
- Borrowing privileges with ETV's lending library
- Opportunity to record testimonials for TV, Radio or website

The Endowment Insider

Click on the newsletter on the right to download our most recent newsletter. Each issue features upcoming events and activities, donor stories and more. We publish 4 issues yearly.

An investment in ETV and ETV Radio is nothing less than an investment
in the advancement of knowledge and the growth of the human spirit.

WAYS TO GIVE: PERSONALIZE YOUR LEGACY

ESTATE GIFTS	LIFE INCOME GIFTS	ASSET GIFTS

Will	Gift Annuity	Stocks, Bonds
A bequest through your will is the easiest way to make a substantial gift.	A Charitable Gift Annuity is a wonderful way to make a meaningful gift while enjoying income and tax benefits.	Securities make great gifts because you can increase your tax benefits.
Revocable "Living" Trust	Charitable Remainder Trust	Retirement Plan
Like a will, a Revocable Trust gives you the ability to give a gift to the ETV Endowment and control your wealth during life with the advantage of avoiding probate.	A CRT is powerful tool that can provide income for you or your heirs, a CRT can accept complex assets.	You can make a gift from a retirement account to the ETV Endowment, which may reduce income and estate taxes.

Life Insurance	Charitable Lead Trust	Click here to download GIFT PLANNING GUIDE
A gift of life insurance provides leverage for a large gift with a relatively small outlay of current dollars.	A CLT can reduce estate taxes by making annual gifts from the trust to the ETV Endowment and then distributing the trust proceeds to children or heirs.

Retained Life Estate
A Retained Life Estate allows you to donate your home to the ETV Endowment while retaining the right to reside there for life.

The planned gift information presented here is intended only to provide you with with an overview of giving options. As you take steps to create your personal legacy, we recommend that you consult your attorney or financial advisor.

For planned giving, please note that our legal name is the:
ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc.

Our Federal Tax ID # is:
57-0657549

You don't have to be wealthy to make a meaningful gift to the ETV Endowment

Our Donors: Portraits of Giving

In these stories, our donors talk about their decision to support the future of ETV and ETV Radio by including the ETV Endowment in their estate plans. Each unique story comes from the heart and we hope that you'll take a moment read them and get to know these special people. You may “meet” donors with circumstances similar to yours and some that might be quite different from yours, but all of these forward-thinking individuals created their personal legacies by choosing planned gifts that were right for them. Click on their photos to read their stories.

Learning For All Ages Dianne Postnieks	A Way to Give Back Dr. Judith Root and Charles Pease	For Younger Generations Bill and Bonnie Ledbetter
A Lasting Way to Support Al Rogat	Important in our Society John Davis	A Positive Influence Sheila and Larry Haney
A Gift Wisely Given Carolyn McGreal	An Expression of Gratitude Carolyn McLeod

PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR PLANS

If you have already included the ETV Endowment in your estate plans, we hope you will share that information with us so that we will have the opportunity to thank you for your generosity and invite you to join the Legacy Society. Your willingness to be recognized as a member of the Legacy Society may encourage others to follow your example. We acknowledge and respect those who wish to remain anonymous, but we urge you to tell us of your intentions on a confidential basis to assist the ETV Endowment in planning for the future of ETV and ETV Radio. If you are considering doing so, but have not yet included the ETV Endowment in your plans and would like to explore the best options for you and your family, please contact us.

If you have already included the ETV Endowment in your estate plans, you may download a simple Statement of Intent form to share your information with us by clicking below.

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ETV Endowment of South Carolina
401 E. Kennedy Street Suite B-1
Spartanburg, SC 29302
Toll Free: 1-877-253-2092
Phone: 864-591-0046
Fax: 864-573-7792
members@etvendowment.org