Planning
Welcome to the Hiram College Gift Planning webpage. This site has been designed with you in mind. We have provided a brief overview of the Gift Planning program at Hiram, including summaries of some of the most common planned giving tools Hiram alumni and friends have chosen for making their gifts to Hiram. For more information about making a planned gift to Hiram College, please contact Laura Gorretta, Director of Gift Planning, by email at gorrettalj@hiram.edu or by calling 330.569.5281.
This site is interactive. It contains a planned giving calculator. The GiftCalc Calculator enables you to see potential payout rates and charitable deductions for charitable gift annuities or charitable remainder trust. Just click on the link and and see how a life income plan might work for you.
A planned gift to Hiram College can take many forms. The most common include:
- A Bequest in a Will
- A Gift from a Trust
- A Charitable Gift Annuity
- A Charitable Remainder Unitrust
- A Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust
- A Designation as a Beneficiary of a Life Insurance Policy
- A Designation as a Beneficiary of a Retirement Plan or IRA
The purpose of this Gift Planning website is to provide information of a general nature only. Hiram College is not engaged in providing legal or tax advice. Advice from legal and tax counsel should be sought when considering a charitable gift of any type to Hiram College.
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