Planned Gifts

Planned gifts provide ways to plan for the future of the Feinberg School of Medicine, as well as your own. Your gift will be met with attentive, personal service by staff members who seek to match commitment to capacity.

Bequests

Create your legacy by making a gift in your will to the Feinberg School of Medicine. There are several types of bequests, any of which may reduce the percentage of tax owed on the remainder of your estate.

With a general bequest, you simply leave a specified dollar amount to the medical school. With a specific bequest, you designate certain asset items (whose value may change over time). A residuary bequest allows you to assign a certain percentage of your estate’s value to the medical school and helps ensure that each beneficiary receives a constant proportion even though changes may occur in the size of the estate. Our office can provide specific language to be used in estate documents.

Charitable Gift Annuities

You can make a gift to Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and secure fixed payments on a regular basis through a charitable gift annuity. The gift can be established with cash, securities, or other property, and in return you receive fixed and attractive retirement funds with no investment worries or responsibilities.

Charitable Remainder Trusts

You can use your will to establish a charitable trust that uses a specified amount of your estate to provide life income to one or more beneficiaries. The Feinberg School of Medicine would receive the principal that remains after all beneficiaries have passed away.

Charitable Lead Trusts

With a charitable lead trust, you can place assets in a trust, assign the income to the Feinberg School of Medicine for a certain time, and have ownership of the assets later returned to you or be passed on to your named beneficiary.

Donor-Advised Funds

You can take an active role in benefiting the Feinberg School of Medicine through donor-advised funds. Your fund, established through a public charitable organization, would allow you to name multiple advisors and contributors to your account, carrying forward a true legacy of charitable giving.

If would like more information on planned gifts, please visit the Office of Gift Planning.

For more information on planned giving, we invite you to please contact Jeff Nearhoof, Assistant Dean for Development, via phone at (312) 503-3088 or email at j-nearhoof@northwestern.edu.