ELCA Foundation Home Page

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Bequest Language

• The Lutheran Magazine Ads - 2005

• The Lutheran Magazine Ads - 2006

Regional Gift Planners

Foundation Periodical - "Legacies"

Ways to Give to an ELCA ministry

• Charitable Gift Annuities
  • Make a Gift Annuity Now
• Deferred Payment Gift Annuities
• Gift Annuity Disclosure Statement
• Charitable Remainder Trusts
  • Charitable Trust Worksheet (PDF)
• Charitable Trust Disclosure Statement
• Pooled Income Funds
• Pooled Income Funds Disclosure Statement
• Comparisons of Life Income Agreements
• Charitable Beneficiaries of the ELCA
• Donor Advised Fund
• Special Needs Retirement Fund
• Making Gifts of Stock
• Instructions for Gifts of Stock
  • stock authorization form #1 (PDF)
  • stock authorization form #2 (PDF)
  • stock power form (PDF)
  • stock gift letter (PDF)
• Gifting with Life Insurance
• Foundation Gift Application Form (PDF)
• Gifting with Real Estate
  • RE Environmental Questionnaire (PDF)
• On-line Credit Card Donation Form 
• Mail-in Credit Card Donation Form (PDF)

Services to Congregations

• For Pastors
• Resources for Endowment Committees

Contact the ELCA Foundation

Estate Planning

• Giving through Wills & Living Trusts

• Christian Preamble for your Will

• Bequest Language

• Your Will & Trust Workbook (PDF)

• Notes for My Family and Friends (PDF)

• Memorial Endowment Funds

Resources

• Foundation Regional Gift Planners

• List of Foundation brochures

• How to Create a Mission Endowment Fund

• How to Create  (PDF)

• Encouraging Gifts to Mission Endowment Fund

• Lutheran Services Endowment Fund

• LSEF - Request for Proposals (PDF)

• LSEF - Cover Sheet / Appl. (PDF)

• The Lutheran Magazine Ads - 2005

• The Lutheran Magazine Ads - 2006
   

Fund for Leaders in Mission Homepage

• What is the Fund

• Application Process  

• How the Fund Works

• Ways to Give

• Resources

• Contact the Fund

• Scholarship Stories

• List of Scholarship Winners

Endowment Fund of the ELCA Facts

• Invest in the Endowment Fund of the ELCA

• How to Create a Mission Endowment Fund

• Latest Quarterly Report (PDF)

• Encouraging Gifts

• Resources for Endowment Committees

• Sample Endowment Fund Brochures

• Bulletin Blurbs - ELCA Foundation (PDF)

• Bulletin Blurbs - Bequests (PDF)

• Bulletin Blurbs - Life Insurance (PDF)

• Bulletin Blurbs - Gift Annuity (PDF)

• Treating Stewardship Myopia