Types of Bequests and Sample Bequest Wording

The bequests of WXXI friends have helped provide the foundation upon which we are building today. Your legacy will ensure that WXXI is an even stronger community organization tomorrow. We recognize that your estate plans are a personal matter, and will keep any information you choose to share with us confidential.

An outright bequest leaves a specific sum or property to WXXI.

• Expressed as a specific sum of money:
  I give to WXXI Public Broadcasting Council the sum of $___.
  
  
• Expressed as a specific asset or item:
  I give to WXXI Public Broadcasting Council ____.
  
  
• Expressed as a percentage:
  I give to WXXI ___% of my estate.

A residuary bequest is a bequest of all, or a portion, of your estate after other specific bequests have been made.

A contingent bequest leaves your estate, or a percentage of your estate to WXXI if your beneficiaries do not survive you.

A testamentary life income gift is a plan where WXXI would receive the principal of a trust that will first pay lifetime income to those whom you designate in your estate plans. Please see charitable remainder trusts.

For an undesignated bequest you may add "for its general use and purposes" to the above statements.

To designate a preferred area you may add, "to be used to benefit WXXI's ___ .
(FM radio service, children's programming, Reachout Radio service, for example).

To create an endowed or named fund, please contact Kathy Russell Reed. For ideas please see naming opportunities and endowment opportunities