The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Alumni and friends who are accustomed to making regular annual gifts to the Maxwell School now also have the opportunity to use a modest-sized bequest to continue those contributions in perpetuity.

Maxwell School alumni are an intensely loyal bunch, supporting each other through networking and job opportunities, supporting current students with internships, and supporting the institution with regular annual gifts . . . the crucial word being regular. Many of Maxwell’s graduates, such as those who work in the public and nonprofit sectors or in higher education, are probably not in a position to make a major gift. But they demonstrate loyalty through their dependable yearly contributions to Maxwell’s Annual and Dean’s funds.

Now, thanks to a new giving program, that show of support need never end. Through the Perpetual Giving Plan, you can use a bequest to establish an endowment that will make your “annual gift” to Maxwell in perpetuity.

“Every day I speak with alumni and other devoted supporters who make regular annual gifts to Maxwell. They don’t realize their year-in, year-out show of support can go on forever,” says Gary Livent, Maxwell School associate dean for development.

Many donors mistakenly assume a bequest gift is outside of their means. In truth, it takes only a modest bequest for alumni to provide the same annual gift to the Maxwell School that they’ve been accustomed to making throughout their lifetimes.

Invested as a component of the greater Maxwell School endowment, a bequest currently generates about five percent in spendable returns. That means a bequest of $5,000 produces an “annual gift” of $250 a year, $10,000 results in a gift of $500 a year, and a $20,000 bequest provides the School with $1,000 a year.

By participating in the Maxwell School’s Perpetual Giving Plan, you make a comfortably sized, deferred gift while having a big impact on Maxwell for countless years to come. Your ongoing loyalty can help secure the Maxwell School’s ability to improve academic programs, attract high-caliber students, and retain the best faculty members, while memorializing your own commitment and loyalty to the Maxwell School mission.

For more information, contact Gary Livent.