Plan your
LEGACY GIFT
You can have a mighty impact.
Your future legacy can change a child’s life.
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Your thoughtful consideration of a legacy gift leaves us profoundly grateful for your enduring commitment to child health and making kids’ lives better. By joining our Legacy Circle, you will leave a lasting impact for generations to come.
Ways to leave a legacy
Will Gifts
Along with being one of the easiest ways to create a meaningful legacy, a gift in your Will lets you give more than what might have been possible in your lifetime.
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Registered
Accounts & Pensions
Registered financial accounts—like a Tax-Free Savings Account or Registered Retirement Savings Plan—are effective and tax-smart ways to tackle the biggest challenges in children’s health.
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Life insurance
With a life insurance gift, you can transform small premiums each month into major strides in care. Life insurance gifts also allow you to preserve your estate for loved ones.
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Property
You can propel our quest to create a healthier future for kids by donating some types of fixed, or non-cash property.
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Publicly Traded
Securities – in lifetime
Donating securities, such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds, can elevate care for the next generation of kids—while also delivering significant savings today.
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Trusts
Trusts may be helpful options for diverse circumstances, especially where your assets are higher value or complex.
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Your impact will be mighty
Your future gift will have a powerful impact for generations to come.
Here’s a glimpse of what it makes possible.
Research
Leaving a legacy gift means having the potential to quicken the pace of change for breakthroughs and identifying new treatment options to save more lives.
Equipment
Technologies today are changing faster than ever. Leaving a legacy helps ensure the hospital has equipment that shapes the future of precision and revolutionize care.
Care and Treatment
Changing the trajectory of children’s health require a world-class facility and services. Your future legacy gift can fuel advancements across the hospital and create life-changing success stories for families.
Partnering with Advisors & Executors
The right partners can make all the difference when creating a legacy. Discover how to choose the most suitable professional advisors and executors for your estate planning and legacy giving needs.
Meet our legacy community
By being part of this community whose generosity is at the forefront of innovation, you’ll enjoy several exclusive benefits. Legacy Circle members are recognized in special ways, receive invitations to educational events, meet patient families impacted by gifts like theirs—and more. Here’s what a few members say.
Frequently asked questions
Legal Name: British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital Foundation
Charitable Business Number: 118852433RR0001
Here is some sample wording for Will clauses:
Residual Bequest
This option is preferred by many donors as it allows your future gift to increase or decrease according to your estate’s value once your lifetime needs have been met.
You might choose to donate all or a percentage of your estate to the beneficiary after all your debts, taxes, expenses, and other specific bequests have been paid.
“I give the residue of my estate (or percentage of the residue) to the British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital Foundation to be used for such of the objects and purposes as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine.”
Specific Bequest
You might choose to designate a specific dollar amount, or piece of property, such as real estate, stocks, bonds or works of art.
“I give the sum of $XXX,XXX (or description of other property) to the British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital Foundation to be used for such of the objects and purposes as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine.”
Contingent Bequest
Your gift will take effect only if the original intention cannot be met (e.g. if the primary or alternate beneficiaries do not survive the donor).
“If (name of primary beneficiary) does not survive me for 30 days, then I give (description of gift) to the British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital Foundation to be used for such of the objects and purposes as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine.”
Gift Restrictions
If you have a specific area of interest, please contact us for Will wording.
BC Children’s Hospital Foundation values your kind intention to make a future gift and appreciates unforeseen changes can occur. Your lifetime needs should be met first – where circumstances arise that this is no longer possible, please let us know.
Legacy gifts are most often used for the priority needs of the Hospital and are undesignated. However, designated gifts or gifts restricted for the use in a particular area of care are possible, please contact us to discuss your plans and to obtain the proper Will wording.
Did you know? Most donors choose undesignated gifts, so the Hospital can choose their priority needs at that future time.
Thank you for your thoughtful inclusion of BC Children’s Hospital Foundation in your legacy plans. If you have already included us in your legacy plans, please let us know. We would like to formally thank you and welcome you as a member of our Legacy Circle.
Please contact our Gift & Estate Planning team by completing the form or contact us directly.
p: 604.335.5882
e: legacy@bcchf.ca
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Meet your Gift & Estate Planning Team
Hilary Beard, MA, BCompt
Director
Hailee Chun, JD
Associate Director, Estates
Robert Hamanishi, BBA
Legacy Giving Manager
Helen Kempler
Estate & Bequest Stewardship Specialist
We are here to help
Whether you have a question about BC Children’s Hospital Foundation or require support to make your legacy planning a seamless experience, contact us today.
p: 604.335.5882
e: legacy@bcchf.ca
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A small clause in your Will, or a codicil, can make a mighty impact.
Supporters who create a future legacy gift are automatically part of our Legacy Circle.