Your cash gift is always welcome. You may designate how you want the Sisters to use your gift. You can make a gift in memory of someone dear to you. You can use a printable form or just write the Sisters a letter, and mail your gift to: Notre Dame Sisters, 3501 State St, Omaha, NE, 68112. Be sure to include your name and address so that you can receive a receipt for your donation. 

Planned gifts are another option for giving to the Sisters. You can provide for a bequest in your will, or you can name the Sisters as beneficiary of insurance or retirement accounts.

Your Will
After providing for your loved ones, a provision in your will to leave a gift to the Notre Dame Sisters will give you a great deal of satisfaction, knowing that your planned gift will help the Notre Dame Sisters far into the future. Gifts through wills are popular because they are both easy to arrange and can be changed at any time. Charitable bequests can include cash, securities, real estate, or other property, and may be identified as a specific amount, as a percentage of your entire estate, or that part of your estate that remains after making other specific bequests.

Estate Tax Savings
Your charitable bequest, in any form, is free from Federal estate tax and may significantly reduce taxes assessed against your estate. This means that Notre Dame will be able to use the full amount of the gift, where gifts to others may be substantially reduced by taxes imposed.

Choosing How Your Bequest Will Be Used
The choice is yours. You may allow the Sisters to determine where the money is most needed (an unrestricted bequest), or you may designate the purpose (restricted bequest), choosing to support such ongoing needs as the Sisters’ Retirement Fund, Ministry Fund, Health & Care Endowment, or general operating expenses. Making a new will, or changing your current will should be done with the assistance of your attorney. By making a gift through your will, you will know that your generosity will touch the future of the Notre Dame Sisters and those served by the Sisters.

Life Insurance
Quite often people find that they have more life insurance than they really need. For example, their children may be grown and life insurance that was intended to provide education funds is no longer needed. A gift of a policy of life insurance , one that is paid up or one with premiums still due, makes a very good charitable gift. And the gift can easily be made by naming Notre Dame Sisters as both the beneficiary and owner of the policy. You may even want to purchase a new policy to give to the Notre Dame Sisters. Normally, your charitable deduction will be approximately the cash value of the policy at the time of the gift.

 Retirement Funds
Often retirement funds are accumulated that neither you nor your family will ever use. For such an occurrence you may want to name the Notre Dame Sisters as the final (or contingent) beneficiary of a qualified retirement account, causing the funds in that account to be distributed directly to the Notre Dame Sisters upon your death. This gift will not be reduced by estate taxes, and will support the Sisters and their mission. Your employer or retirement account manager can easily help you add or change beneficiaries.
Such an estate gift of a retirement account can benefit both you and your heirs. You will retain full control of the funds while you are alive, should you want to use them; and you will avoid paying estate tax on those funds. Additionally, by leaving estate assets other than the retirement funds to your heirs, your heirs will not be required to pay income tax on the transfer of the retirement plan. To be sure that all pertinent regulations are followed, it is important to obtain the assistance of a qualified professional advisor. If you or your advisor have any questions, please contact the Notre Dame Development Office.

Notre Dame Development Office
3501 State St
Omaha NE 68112
(402) 455-2994
Fax (402) 455-3974
Email:development2@notredamesisters.org