What will tomorrow bring for our children? As caring adults, we hope for only the best for their future. We want our young people to grow up to be caring, honest, respectful, and responsible – loving and loved.

Each of us knows that developing the source within each child from which springs the self-esteem and values they will need as adults is not an easy task. It is crucial that we as concerned adults are at their sides during these crucial, developmental years. The YMCA is important in helping young people develop their spirit, mind, and body to their fullest potential. The YMCA is important in helping children find a secure, stable, productive place in our community. The YMCA is important to helping our children find the values that will take them into adulthood.

At the Fair Acres Family YMCA, these values are what have given us the strength to hold our place in the community for over 70 years. With your help, we will work well into the future to build strong kids, strong families, strong communities.

The Heritage Club

The Heritage Club is an organization of people who have shown their long-term interest and support of the Fair Acres Family YMCA by either a direct contribution to the Endowment Fund or by including the YMCA in their estate plans. It is the commitment, rather than the amount that is the basic factor in qualifying as a Heritage Club member.

Qualifications for Heritage Club Membership

• An individual is qualified through any one of the following four methods:
• An outright gift to the YMCA Endowment Fund of cash, securities, property or other marketable assets.
• Creation of a unitrust, annuity trust, gift annuity, pooled income fund, short-term trust or other life estate program.
• Naming the Fair Acres Family YMCA as the eventual recipient of life insurance.
• Naming the Fair Acres Family YMCA to receive a bequest in one’s will.

Gifts may be designated to a specific YMCA program or placed in the general endowment fund. All gifts to the endowment fund are placed into principal and the earnings are used to ensure future growth and continued services, benefiting our children for years to come.
For charitably inclined individuals, substantial tax savings and other important benefits are available through a variety of current and deferred gift

Endowment plans:

• An Outright Gift (cash, securities)
  • creates current income tax savings
  • provides possible capital gains savings
• A Charitable Remainder Trust
  • provides a lifetime income to the donor or other person
  • creates income tax savings in the year of the gift
  • allows capital gains, estate and gift tax savings
  • provides for tax-free sale of assets
• Naming the YMCA in a Life Insurance Policy
  • makes possible a large future gift
  • provides possible current income tax savings
• A Bequest in One’s Will
  • insures that assets one needs during life will not be dissipated, yet makes possible a substantial charitable gift in memory of an individual
  • creates estate tax savings
• Memorial / Honorary Gifts
  • a loved one can be remembered forever through contributions to the Endowment Fund
  • a special personal achievement may be recognized through a donation to the Endowment Fund