Planned Gifts


Planned and Life Income Gifts are tools for making significant gifts to Alma College in ways that can be extremely tax advantageous for donors. These include:

  • Bequests through a will;
  • Gift annuities which provide life income to donors and beneficiaries;
  • Charitable remainder trusts which create life income for donors plus a tax deduction for up to 6 years;
  • Charitable lead trusts allow transfer of assets to heirs at reduced tax cost and generous gift to Alma College;
  • Life insurance policies — naming Alma College as a beneficiary or gifting ownership of policy to the College;
  • Retirement plan assets — naming Alma College as beneficiary.

To learn more or to begin the process, please visit our planned giving site or contact Planned Giving Director Bob Murray at (989) 463-7316 or 1-800-291-1312.

 

Alma College is among the top 40 baccalaureate institutions in the country for the percentage of students who choose to study abroad, according to a report published by the Institute for International Education. Among Alma’s graduates in the 2009–10 academic year, 61.4 percent participated in study abroad, which ranked 37th in the nation.

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Matt and Alice Stoneback

Matt and Alice Stoneback
Graduation: 2004

While at Alma College, Alice Sova-Stoneback ’04 and Matt Stoneback ’04 not only fell in love with each other, they fell in love with the College.

“We first talked about giving back while we were dating,” says Sova-Stoneback, who is a high school French teacher. “We always said that someday, we’d give back. It was part of our plan for the future.”

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