Leave a Lasting Legacy for South Carolina’s Environment
You can take steps now to ensure that your legacy is one of fighting for the environment and communities across South Carolina. Leaving a gift for CVSC or CVSC Education Fund in your estate plans ensures that your values live on for generations.
Members of The Legacy Collective receive recognition in select materials, annual impact reports, exclusive legislative updates, and more.
If you plan to include CVSC or CVSCEF in your estate plans, we invite you to complete our Statement of Future Gift form. By sharing your intent, you help us plan for the future and ensure that your legacy supports our mission for generations to come. Completing the form does not create a binding obligation but allows us to honor your generosity and keep you informed about our initiatives.
Statement of Future Gift Form
For more information about The Legacy Collective, please contact Shea Maple, Development Director, at 540.339.4563 or [email protected].
Why CVSC Education Fund?
CVSC Education Fund works to turn environmental values into state and local priorities. We advocate for strong environmental protections, organize with communities to speak out about environmental priorities, and build strong and effective coalitions in order to enact strong environmental laws. CVSCEF uses educational tools to connect communities all over South Carolina and ensure the protection of clean air, land, and water in our state.
Leaving a gift to CVSC Education Fund not only feels good, it comes with benefits.
- You retain control of your assets during your lifetime. These gifts cost you nothing.
- Provide for your loved ones while helping to preserve our environment for future generations.
- Leave a gift in honor or memory of someone special.
- Change your beneficiaries at any time.
- Choose the amount that works for you. (There is no minimum contribution.)
- Remain anonymous if you choose.
CVSC Education Fund (CVSCEF)- CVSC Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) public charity whose work is educational in nature, with projects like educating and mobilizing people and partners around important environmental issues. Contributions to CVSCEF are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Tax ID Number & Sample Bequest Language:
Below is sample language to provide to your advisor when leaving a gift for the environment in your will, trust, or other planned giving instrument:
“I hereby give and bequeath $___, or ___ percent of the residue of my estate to Conservation Voters of South Carolina Education Fund, a South Carolina nonprofit corporation exempt from Federal taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, 712 Richland Street Suite A, Columbia, SC 29201, Federal tax ID number 20-0335383.”
South Carolina is the place I was born, raised, and educated, and where I have chosen to work and to raise my own family. As a lifelong conservationist, I want to ensure our great treasure — the natural beauty of our state — is preserved. I believe that by including CVSC in my estate, I am helping share this legacy with the generations who follow us.
– Cynthia Swanson Powell, CVSC Education Fund Board Member, Myrtle Beach