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What can your will do?

Decide your legacy with a planned gift.

It is a powerful act of generosity when you remember the University Hospital Foundation in your will. By planning your gift this way, you can create a legacy of care and innovation—often making a bigger impact than you ever imagined possible. It can also be surprisingly simple and have far reaching benefits, including:
  • Offsetting income taxes to your family
  • Extending your vision of the community into the future
  • Honouring the values you hold beyond your passing
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Sample will wording

The following are sample clauses, but we recommend consulting with a lawyer or financial planner before including a charitable organization in your will.
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Tax benefits

Canada offers some of the most generous tax incentives for charitable giving in the world, making it easy for you to give. 

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Leaving a legacy gift in your will has never been easier. We’ve partnered with Epilogue Wills – Canada’s leading online estate planning solution.

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Charitable requests and gifts in your will

One of the meaningful aspects of a legacy gift is that it allows you to support the future—without affecting your finances today. You can bequeath a piece of property or other tangible assets, securities, cash, or even a percentage of your estate. Gifts made through your will can also lower, or even eliminate, taxes owed on your final estate!
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Celebrating our legacy donors

What does leaving a legacy mean to you? For our community of legacy donors, it means shaping the future of healthcare through planned giving.

Donors who have left a gift to the Foundation in their will have already accomplished incredible things. Their contributions have allowed us to advance Gamma Knife radiosurgery, provide state-of-the-art cardiac care at the Mazankowski Heart Institute and so much more. Every donation has a ripple effect on the health ecosystem throughout Alberta, and beyond. When you plan your legacy gift, you plan for a better future with potential cures for people with Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, organ failure, multiple sclerosis – and more.

Gold Leaf Society

At the University Hospital Foundation, we celebrate donors who have designated a donation gift in their will to the Foundation through our  Gold Leaf Society. Along with ensuring donors’ gifts will never be forgotten, the Gold Leaf Society offers members-only events including special access to behind-the-scenes tours of parts of the hospital rarely seen by the public, and presentations from some of our world-leading healthcare teams.

If you are interested in learning more about how a gift in your will can help you achieve your legacy plans, please  contact a University Hospital Foundation’s Philanthropy Officer for more information.

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