You can give in a number of ways: gifts by check or credit card, matching gifts, appreciated securities, gifts of property, charitable lead trust, charitable gift annuity, or charitable remainder trust. Making a planned gift to Hyde includes you in the Sumner Hawley Society.

Check or Credit Card
You may make a check payable to Hyde School (mail to Development, 616 High Street, Bath, ME 04530) or charge your gift to Master Card, or Visa–GIVE ONLINE NOW.

Matching Gifts
Do you or your spouse or partner work for an organization or company that matches gifts to non-profit organizations, such as schools? Do you serve on a board of directors of an organization that matches gifts by their directors? Many companies offer matching gifts for employees, employees’ spouses/partners and some retirees. Request a matching gift form from the company’s benefits or personnel office and submit it with your pledge payments. What a wonderful way to increase your gift to Hyde!

Appreciated Securities
Donors may transfer appreciated securities as a form of payment on a pledge. It’s simple:

• Authorize your broker to transfer shares to Hyde.
• Contact the Development Office at (860) 963-4717 or send an e-mail to dsmith@hyde.edu to obtain the schools’ account and routing numbers. It is very important that you contact the Development Office when making gifts of securities; brokers rarely contact the school, leaving securities vulnerable to the ups and downs of the stock market.

Gifts of Property
Do you have a vacation home in Florida or California that you rarely use? Do you have a cottage in Maine that you have owned for a long time but don’t think your children will ever use it?

The real estate market has remained active while the stock market has ridden a roller coaster. Real estate might represent a perfect gift to Hyde because the sale of appreciated real estate often leads to capital gains taxes, real estate agent and attorney fees, etc. Many of these taxes can be avoided by involving a non-profit organization in your plans. Some donors might even choose to occupy a property for life, with the asset becoming valuable to Hyde School upon death.

Charitable Lead Trust
Can you forgo the earnings from the property or another asset to fund a special gift to Hyde School?

A Donor can make a gift over a period of years, or over a lifetime by creating a Charitable Lead Trust. Earnings go to Hyde and when the Trust terminates, the assets revert back to the donor or to a named beneficiary or loved ones, such as grandchildren.

Charitable Gift Annuity
In exchange for cash or securities, Hyde School will pay the donor or a loved one a fixed amount annually for the rest of his/her life or the lives of two annuitants.

Most donors can expect payout rates from approximately 6 percent to 9.7 percent annually. You can even support the initiatives of Hyde by designating 80 percent of the earning income to you and 20 percent to Hyde!

A minimum contribution of $25,000 must be made in order for a Charitable Gift Annuity to be established at Hyde.

Charitable Remainder Trust
Would you or a loved one like to receive a fixed annual income for life and help support the initiatives of Hyde? By creating an irrevocable Charitable Remainder Trust, you can receive annual income until death when the corpus of the Trust is distributed to Hyde School. You can even support the initiatives of Hyde now by designating 80 percent of the earnings income to you and 20 percent to Hyde!