Maximize your deduction; minimize the gift details

Use cash to make your gift to Mother Jones

Claim your deduction against a larger portion of your adjusted gross income, and make an immediate impact on Mother Jones

Afford a larger gift to Mother Jones – and avoid capital gains liability

Give appreciated securities or bonds held over one year

Buy low and give high – while avoiding capital gains tax

Make a gift for Mother Jones's future that doesn't affect your cash flow or portfolio now

Put a bequest in your will (cash, specific property, or a share of the estate residue)

Today – a gift that costs you and your family nothing

Tomorrow – an estate tax deduction

Retain income benefits from the assets you give to Mother Jones – and thus afford a larger gift

Create charitable remainder unitrust or annuity trust

Receive income for your lifetime; receive a charitable deduction; diversify your holdings

Tap one of the most valuable assets in your portfolio to make a gift to Mother Jones

Use real estate to make your gift to Mother Jones

Avoid capital gains tax, receive an income tax deduction – and have the option of a gift that doesn't affect your lifestyle

Reduce gift and estate taxes and control the timing of passing assets to your children and grandchildren

Create a charitable lead trust which supports programs at Mother Jones for a fixed, finite period with the principal going to your heirs.

Reduce gift and estate taxes, and freeze the taxable value of growing assets before they pass to your family

Locate an overlooked asset that you can easily give to Mother Jones

Name Mother Jones as beneficiary of your retirement plan, leave other assets to family

Eliminate income tax on retirement plan assets; free up other property to pass to your heirs

Make an endowment gift from income rather than capital

Create a new life insurance policy, or donate a paid-up policy whose coverage you no longer need

Increase your ability to make a significant gift to Mother Jones