Your Act of Generosity,
Supports Our Longevity
With planned giving, you can provide long-lasting support for Wittenberg University while enjoying financial benefits for yourself.
With planned giving, you can provide long-lasting support for Wittenberg University while enjoying financial benefits for yourself.
You may be looking for a way to make a significant gift to help further our mission. A bequest is a gift made through your will or trust. It is one of the most popular and flexible ways that you can support our cause.
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An educator, music teacher, choir director, accomplished pianist and violinist, as well as the author of more than 550 articles, Kathryn Sanders Rieder '34 has spent a lifetime giving of her time, talent and treasures to the young and old alike.
"My belief in giving to others was a part of my upbringing that I inherited from my mother and grandmother, and that I shared with my husband. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving," she says.
She has also appreciated what others have done for her throughout her 103 years of life, including those at Wittenberg. That appreciation has led her to establish close to 30 gift annuities at Wittenberg. Upon their maturity, the assets from her annuities will fund an endowed scholarship in her name, income from which will provide financial assistance to music and education majors.
"Wittenberg's motto, 'Having Light We Pass It On To Others,' is my motto," she says. "I was always taught that when you can help, to help the church and education because that is where the future is. I've found that to be true. Education is our main hope in life."
A charitable gift annuity is a great way you can make a gift to our organization and benefit. You transfer your cash or property to our organization and we promise to make fixed payments to you for life at a rate based on your age.
An IRA rollover allows people age 70½ and older to reduce their taxable income by making a gift directly from their IRA.
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