Planned Giving is an aspect of financial planning. These deferred gifts can offer significant solutions to managing wealth when one incorporates philanthropic goals in an overall financial strategy, including: 

• Providing additional income for yourself and/or your spouse
• Savings on future estate taxes
• Transferring assets to heirs efficiently and minimizing estate taxes
• Avoiding capital gains tax on appreciated assets

Individuals interested in making a deferred gift to GW Law are encouraged to consult their legal and financial advisors. Our staff is available to help you determine a planned giving vehicle best suited to meet your needs and goals for ensuring your family's financial future and would be pleased to provide personalized illustrations appropriate to the particular circumstances of any potential donor of a deferred gift. Some increasingly popular deferred gift plans are: 

• Charitable Remainder Trusts
• Charitable Gift Annuities
• Bequests

The Heritage Society

Those individuals making such planned gift arrangements become members of the Heritage Society, a benefactor club recognizing those who have generously remembered the Law School with provisions in their estate plans. Heritage Society members are acknowledged in donor publications and are invited to special events and functions at the School in gratitude for their generosity.