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Help build a future for
Lutheran
peacemaking...
Lutheran
Peace Fellowship
Endowment Fund
Lutheran Peace Fellowship
1710 11th Ave., Seattle, WA
98122
206/720-0313
We invite you to help
build an endowment for Lutheran Peace Fellowship; a fund to assure an ongoing
source of income for peace work among Lutherans, grounded in the nonviolent
gospel of Jesus Christ.
Since 1941,
Lutheran Peace Fellowship (LPF) has engaged in a prophetic ministry of
advocacy, nonviolence education, and support for Lutheran peacemakers. We give
thanks for the legacy of our founders; we want to ensure that this vital
mission will continue for young people --- tomorrow's peacemakers.
Lutheran Peace
Fellowship has created an Endowment fund in order to strengthen our peacemaking
mission into the twenty-first century and beyond. The principal will continue
to grow while a portion of the fund's annual interest and dividend income will
help support LPF programs including:
t scholarships for young peacemakers;
t worship and advocacy resources;
t nonviolence training programs and other Nobel Peace
Appeal activities;
t outreach to new congregations...
The Lutheran Peace
Fellowship board has selected the Endowment Fund of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA), a socially-responsible investment partnership of the
ELCA Foundation and Board of Pensions, to be the professional manager for the
LPF Endowment Fund. The ELCA Endowment Fund invests in stocks and bonds that are
screened to avoid companies that produce weapons of mass destruction, harm the
environment, or adversely affect human health.
Lutheran Peace
Fellowship will continue to own the entire endowment, both the principal and
all earnings from the money invested in the fund. LPF will pay a 1% annual
management fee to the ELCA Foundation.
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Initial
Threshold Goal: $25,000: The Lutheran Peace Fellowship Endowment Fund aims to make a minimum
initial investment of $25,000 in order to participate fully in the ELCA Endowment
Fund portfolio of stocks and bonds. The eleven-member LPF board of directors
has already pledged $7000 towards this goal. We need your help in reaching
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Gift Options
You can make your
contribution to the Lutheran Peace Fellowship Endowment Fund through a variety
of options. Gifts of all sizes and in many forms are welcome, to our regular
budget as well as to the endowment fund.
ELCA foundation
staff will provide LPF with the services of professional gift planners who are
experienced in counseling individual donors in the technical aspects of
arranging for gifts that serve the best interest of both you and Lutheran Peace
Fellowship.
1. Cash: A
gift of cash is a direct and simple way to assist the LPF Endowment Fund and
realize your charitable objectives. Cash gifts qualify as a charitable
deduction for federal income tax purposes and are fully deductible (for those
who itemize) up to 50% of your adjusted gross income in the year that the gift
is made.
2. Appreciated
Property (Stocks,
Bonds, Real Estate): Gifts of securities and other appreciated property will
also help us reach our $25,000 threshold goal this year. With a gift of
appreciated securities held more than one year, not only do you receive a
charitable deduction, but you.avoid all capital gains taxes (up to 30% of your
adjusted gross income).
3. Memorial
Gifts: You
may wish to honor a loved one, a special anniversary, a birthday or retirement
by sending a contribution to the LPF Endowment Fund. A memorial gift is also a
way to honor a loved one who has died. An appropriate tribute will be forwarded
to the person you are honoring, or to the family of the person being
memorialized. Send your gift to the LPF Endowment Fund in care of the ELCA
Foundation, and specify the person who should receive acknowledgement.
4. Life
Insurance: You
may find life insurance an attractive form of giving since it may not affect
your current cash flow. Large gifts may be possible at a relatively small cost.
You may give a life insurance policy that you already own, give a new contract,
or name the LPF Endowment Fund as a beneficiary. Premium payments for
charitable life insurance contracts are tax deductible. Please consult ELCA
Foundation Staff regarding such gift arrangements.
5. Bequests: Through a will, you can
perpetuate your peacemaking ministry with a living memorial. The LPF Endowment
Fund can be a beneficiary of your estate, the recipient of a specified gift or
residuary or contingent bequest, or the ultimate beneficiary of a charitable
remainder trust. Bequests are deductible for federal estate tax purposes. The
ELCA Foundation can provide assistance with wills, estate and gift planning. (continued on back panel)
6. Gifts that
provide you with lifetime income: Deferred gifts include gifts in which you transfer
assets to the Lutheran Peace Fellowship Endowment and receive, in return, a
lifetime income interest for you, your spouse or children, or specified
beneficiaries. Gift opportunities are tailored to the needs and priorities of
the donor. ELCA Foundation gift planning counselors can help you determine how
to best realize your priorities through various gift options such as:
t charitable gift annuities;
t deferred payment charitable
gift annuities;
t charitable remainder
trusts.
Gifts of
appreciated real estate make attractive gifts into a charitable remainder
trust, where you receive income for life and LPF receives the remainder at the
time of death.
If you elect to
develop a charitable trust, the ELCA Foundation will prepare the documents at
no cost or obligation to you or to Lutheran Peace Fellowship. Brochures
explaining each of several deferred gift arrangements can be requested from the
ELCA Foundation.
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As each has
received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God's varied
grace. 1
Peter 4:10 |
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How Can I Give to the
Lutheran Peace Fellowship
Endowment Fund?
1. Contact
Lutheran Peace Fellowship
Gifts of cash and
securities (stocks, bonds) can be handled directly by Lutheran Peace
Fellowship. Send donations to the Lutheran Peace Fellowship.
You or your broker
can transfer stock directly to Lutheran Peace Fellowship's broker: Edward
Jones, phone 206/937-9613, account #870-05398-1-3, DTC #0057. Be sure to
specify that it is for the LPF Endowment Fund.
2. Contact the
ELCA Foundation
You may call the
ELCA Foundation to facilitate selling your securities directly into the LPF
Endowment Fund. Deferred gifts, annuities and bequests will be handled by the
ELCA Foundation
8765 W. Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631.
phone: 800-638-2522 ext.
2970
e-mail: hallberg@elca.org.
Thank you for considering a gift that will further the ministry of Lutheran Peace Fellowship. However you choose to contribute to the Lutheran Peace Fellowship --- to our regular budget as well as to the Endowment Fund --- we give thanks for your ongoing support of this vital peacemaking work.
Lutheran
Peace Fellowship is an international community of peacemakers, grounded in
Christ, who seek peace according to the Biblical vision of shalom, peace
with justice; who pray and work to eliminate violence, oppression, and
militarism; and who are committed to nonviolence in our efforts to bring about
justice and reconciliation.
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Blessed are the
peacemakers. Matthew
5:9 |
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Thank you for considering a gift that will further the ministry of Lutheran Peace Fellowship. However you choose to contribute to the Lutheran Peace Fellowship, to our regular budget as well as to the Endowment Fund, we give thanks for your ongoing support of this vital peacemaking work.
Lutheran Peace Fellowship
1710 11th Ave., Seattle WA
98122 206/720-0313 lpf@ecunet.org www.nonviolence.org/lpf
Founded
in 1941, LPF offers a wide range of expertise, encouragement, and resources,
including
t
workshops
and trainings on Christian nonviolence and current peace and justice concerns
from world hunger to landmines;
t fellowship and support for congregation, campus, and individual activities and projects;
t a newsletter, brochures, worship materials, advocacy updates, audiovisuals, and a web site
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