Bequests and Planned Giving

Make a transformative difference

Leaving a legacy gift is an opportunity to maximize your impact, minimize your tax burden, and create a lasting legacy for years to come.

Learn more about bequests and planned giving  ron.henry [at] mcgill.ca (Email our team for more info)
James Brace

A flood of ideas from McGill’s Brace Water Centre

How a legacy gift unleashed a torrent of new discoveries in water research.

Karen Lapsley

Why I’m leaving a bequest to Mac

Dr. Karen Lapsley will support future endeavours in AES.

Dean's Legacy Fund: Perpetuate your annual gift

Donors to McGill’s Annual Fund can continue their support for generations to come by contributing an endowed gift to the endowed Dean's Legacy Fund through their estate plans, empowering deans of our faculty to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities.

Details

Suggested bequest language: “I give and bequeath the sum of $X to McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada to augment the Dean’s Legacy Fund in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the income of which is to be used for the dean’s greatest priorities.”

If your annual gift totals:

You can perpetuate it with a gift of:

$500

$12,500

$1,000

$25,000

$10,000

$250,000

*For illustration purposes; endowed interest calculated at a rate of 4%.

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