To learn more about the various ways you can make a gift, simply click on the plan that interests you. Plan-A-Gift^® will take you right to what you need to know.

Bequests
How to make a simple bequest to Williams College through your will and why it can be advantageous.

Pooled Income Funds
How to give cash or securities, receive a current charitable deduction, and provide variable income payments for life for up to two beneficiaries. Once payments cease, the principal is used by Williams College for the purpose you designate.

Charitable Gift Annuities
How to give cash or securities, receive a current charitable deduction, and provide immediate, guaranteed annuity payments for life for up to two beneficiaries. Deferred gift annuities provide similar opportunities but defer the start of payments for a specified number of years. Once payments cease, the principal is used by Williams College for the purpose you designate.

Charitable Remainder Trusts
How to give almost any kind of property — including cash, securities, closely-held stock, real estate, partnership interests, or tangible personal property — receive a current charitable deduction, and provide variable or fixed payments for life or a term of years for multiple beneficiaries. Once payments to beneficiaries cease, the trust principal is used by Williams College for the purpose you designate.

Charitable Lead Trusts
How to give cash or other property, provide fixed payments to Williams College for a term of years, and pass the principal to your heirs at a significant tax savings when the trust ends.

Real Estate
How to give gifts of personal residences, commercial buildings, farms, and other parcels of land in a variety ways -- outright, through your will, via a charitable bargain sale, by retaining a life estate, or by funding a life income gift.

Appreciated Securities
Directions for giving appreciated stocks, bonds, or mutual fund shares and why it is advantageous from a tax standpoint.

Gifts of Other Assets

How to give other assets, such as: Retirement Plans, Charitable Bargain Sales, Real Estate, Closely-Held Stock, Partnership Interests, Tangible Personal Property, and Life Insurance.