With estate planning, you don't have to be rich to make an impact

Guests discuss the mission of the Leave a Legacy organization and the opportunity it provides to bring understanding to estate planning, legacy planning and the charitable giving process. Christopher Kelly, Vice President of Comerica Charitable Services Group, and Roberta S. Trzos (CFRE), Director of Personal Giving for Leader Dogs for the Blind talk about how Leave a Legacy helps individuals can impact nonprofit organizations, even after death.
Words of wisdom include: "[Donations are] such a great message to future generations on the importance of philanthropy and the value of a dollar."
And: "We don't have to be Donald Trump or Bill Gates, the everyday citizen can really have an impact."
This is the first of three segments from a 2010 edition of "The John Prost Show" on Grosse Pointe War Memorial Television,

LEAVE A LEGACY® Southeast Michigan is a nine-county-wide campaign encouraging people to name non-profit organizations in their wills. The campaign, which is driven by the efforts of volunteers from non-profit groups, and financial, estate planning and law firms, is sponsored by the Planned Giving Roundtable of Southeast Michigan — a group of professionals in legal, financial, and allied fields as well as fundraising professionals whose focus is planned giving.

The campaign resulted from a growing concern for non-profit organizations, who because of increasingly less government funding, are fighting to exist. And the problem worsens because this forces non-profit groups to rely more on public support; however, although 81.5% of people in Southeast Michigan give annually, only 2.8% leave a charitable bequest at death. LEAVE A LEGACY is addressing this problem by educating people about the importance of planned gifts for the charities we depend on and support.

For more information visit http://www.leavealegacysoutheastmichigan.org, call (888) 826-7900 or e-mail leavelegacy@airadv.net.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• will of living trust
• leave a legacy
• planned giving
• Comerica Charitable Services
• Leader Dogs for the Blind
• philanthropy
• charitable
• charity
• bequest
• living will
• prepare a will
• southeast
• michigan
• giving

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does donald trump give alot to charity??