The Blue Lotus Center Endowment was established to ensure its long-term sustainability. For more than 20 years, the center has flourished thanks to the support of our generous donors. Now, we are seeking your assistance to secure the future of the Blue Lotus Center for generations to come.
We are deeply committed to our mission and have started a modest investment in the endowment. This investment will allow us to use up to 5% in annual disbursements in perpetuity to support our programs and ensure sustainability. With the help of individual donors in our Legacy Society, our goal is to grow this investment to $5 million dollars.
Endowment & Planned Giving
Why Leave A Legacy?
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Be remembered for making a difference in people’s lives.
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Lessen your family's tax burden. Receive estate tax savings for yourself.
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Make nature accessible to people with disabilities and other significant life challenges for many years and generations to come.
By becoming a member of our Legacy Society, you can play a vital role in our sustainable future. Your contribution will leave a lasting impact on the work we do at the center and for the community, ensuring a brighter future for generations to come.
Join us in shaping the future of the Blue Lotus Center!
We are planting an orchard in honor of those who give to the legacy society to bear fruit for future generations!
Join the Blue Lotus Legacy Society
When we invest in something, we do not receive immediate gratification or instantly reap the benefits. Instead, we look to the future. We make decisions today that will impact us down the road and help future generations. A legacy gift is an investment. It’s a decision you make today that affects the future you leave behind after you pass on.
“Trees are the best monuments
that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are blessings to children yet unborn.”
– Lord Orrery
What is Your Legacy?
Your legacy can positively impact children and adults with disabilities and other significant life challenges, their families and communities.
Planning your legacy is easy. Whether you would like to put your donation to work today or benefit the Blue Lotus Center after your lifetime, we can help you find a charitable plan that meets your goals.
With your help, we can continue to ensure that people with disabilities are valued, respected, included, and free to explore accessible ways to enjoy nature.
Planning Your Legacy
Include a bequest to the Blue Lotus Center in your will or revocable trust.
A bequest is one of the easiest gifts to make. With the help of an attorney, you can include language in your will that makes a gift to the Blue Lotus Center part of your estate plan, or you can make a bequest using a beneficiary designation form.
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Percentage bequest - make a gift of a percentage of your estate
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Specific bequest - make a gift of a specific dollar amount or a specific asset
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Residual bequest - make a gift from the balance or residue of your estate
Ways to Support
​Other ways to provide support:
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Designate the Blue Lotus Center as a full, partial or contingent beneficiary of your retirement account: IRA, 401(k), 403(b) or pension
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Name the Blue Lotus Center as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy
Your Legacy Toolkit
The following language is an example of wording that may be used to name the Blue Lotus Center as a beneficiary of your last will and testament. Your gift may be of a specific dollar amount, or it may also be of a percentage of your estate.
"I give to the Blue Lotus Center, a nonprofit corporation currently located at 5501 County Road M West Bend, WI, in Washington County EIN#43-19895e45 or its successor thereto, _________ [written amount or percentage of the estate or description of property] for its unrestricted charitable use and purpose.”
Bequest Language
For more than twenty years, the Blue Louts Center has made nature accessible to everyone. We want to continue our legacy of inspiring, simulating and invigorating the human spirit through a connection with the natural environment for years to come. By leaving your legacy to the Blue Lotus Center, you're not only making life better for people with disabilities, but also supporting our non-profit partners whose members and constituents love visiting the center year after year.
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The Blue Lotus Center serves a diverse population of children and adults with disabilities, chronic and terminal illnesses, seniors in memory care, economically and historically marginalized communities, and survivors of trauma, abuse and mental illness crises. Your legacy gift will help continue to achieve this mission of making nature accessible to everyone for many years to come.