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CWI's Summer EAST and WEST
Institutes on Service-Learning, 2011
Join with colleagues from across North America and beyond, working to embrace service-learning and sustainability. A week of support, inspiration, and collaboration. more
Summer WEST • August 1-5, 2011
Los Angeles, Cailfornia
General Information: 909-480-3966
Faculty—WEST
Workshops—WEST
Registration—WEST
Accommodations—WEST
Summer EAST • July 18-22, 2011
Shelburne Farms, Vermont
General Information: 909-480-3966
Register by phone: 802-985-8686
Faculty—EAST
Workshops—EAST
Registration—EAST
Accommodations—EAST
Institute Sponsors and Partners
Community Works Institute
Shelburne Farms
Orion Magazine
The Sustainable Schools Project
Antioch University NE
Johnson State College
CalServe K-12 Service-Learning Initiative
California Department of Education
University of Vermont
Community Garden Network
CWI PARTNER |
SHELBURNE FARMS
Cultivating a Conservation Ethic
for a Sustainable Future |
DON'T MISS
Community Works Journal
Online Magazine
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www.communityworksjournal.org
“Key reasons for The Journal's survival are the consistently high quality of the articles and their immediate usefulness to teachers. This is a resource that truly speaks to teachers with excellent, provocative ideas.”
Steve Seidel, Ed.D, Bauman and Bryant Chair in Arts in Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education |
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SUPPORT COMMUNITY WORKS INSTITUTE
Join with us today, be a part of the change
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As a 501 (c) (3) all contributions to Community Works Institute, Inc. are tax deductible
If you are financially capable of making a donation we ask you to consider the following facts:
• Educators from nearly every U.S. state and many from abroad have now participated in CWI Institutes on Service-Learning, 1998-2011
• Community Works Journal online magazine reaches a large international audience of educators and community members.
• Community Works Institute serves as a crucial network, inspiration and toolbox for educators from around the world at no cost to users.
• Our participants and users range across the K-16 community to community based agencies.
• Community Works Institute promotes a unique and focused synergy around service-learning, community building, and sustainability.
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How to Donate Online to
Community Works Institute
Donate safely online, using Network for Good's secure online donation system. We will receive an email confirming your donation with information for use in claiming your tax deduction
Become a Private Contributor
• Anchor $10,000 to $14,999
• Program Partner $5,000 to $9,999
• Sponsor $2,000 to $4,999
• Friends of CWI $20 to $1,999
Become a Corporate Sponsor
• Corporate Anchor $15,000 and above
• Corporate Program Partner $10,000 to $14,999
• Corporate Sponsor $5,000 to $9,999
• Corporate Friend $2,000* to $4,999
Other Ways to Invest in
Community Works Institute
• Contact us to inqiuire about making a individual contribution targeted to a specific program
• Donations in tribute to, or memory of, a special person
• Endowments
• Gifts in Kind
• Planned Giving
Tax Deductible Donations
Your donation is tax-deductible because Community Works Institute is recognized by the IRS as a non-profit organization under Sec. 501(c)(3).
Contributions can be accepted for unlimited amounts and contributions may be personal or corporate.
info@communityworksinstitute.org
tel: 909-480-3966
Community Works Institute, Inc.
PO Box 1390
Claremont, CA • 91711 |
Become an Organizational Partner
There are a variety of ways that you can support the efforts of Community Works Institute.
Partnership options for organizations and non-profits include being listed as a sponsor on CWI's website and/or within our publication Community Works Journal. Individual and organizational donors may of course opt to remain anonymous.
Contact us for more information
CWI Web Partners Ad Program
Your active logo-ad will appear prominently on all pages of the CWI program that you sponsor. Sustaining Partners' active logo-ad will appear at Top Level throughout CWI site. (see example below)
CWI PARTNER |
SHELBURNE FARMS
Cultivating a Conservation Ethic
for a Sustainable Future |
Sustaining Partners ($5,000)
support CWI's work by making a significant ongoing financial commitment, as well as by serving as an active advocate on CWI's behalf in facilitating the support of other organzations and funders. Sustaining partners help CWI provide for the long term health of CWI and its operated programs.
Anchors ($3,500)
provide significant financial support for specific programs and events operated by CWI.
Program Partners ($2,000 or inkind)
are committed long term and provide a variety of types of support for the programs operated by CWI.
Sponsors ($2,000 or inkind)
provide significant financial or in kind support for specific programs and events operated by CWI.
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PLANNED GIVING
WHAT IS PLANNED GIVING?
This is the best way to combine your personal financial objectives with your charitable goals. These gifts are made over time, and have several tax benefits that ensure a legacy of social change.
WAYS TO GIVE
A planned gift to Community Works Institute helps to ensure the future of the services and programs we provide, and can further your financial planning goals. Planned gifts include contributions you can make through your will and charitable trusts. You can also work with Community Works to specify your gift will support a particular geographic region, large or small.
How do I include Community Works Institute in my will?
Many of our supporters make charitable gifts by naming Community Works Institute as a beneficiary in their wills. The federal government encourages these gifts or bequests by allowing an unlimited estate tax charitable deduction.
To make a bequest to Community Works Institute, the following language will be helpful to your lawyer:
I give, devise, and bequeath to Community Works Institute, the sum of _____ (or otherwise describe the gift or specify a percentage of the estate).
Have you already left a legacy to Community Works?
Many people have already completed their estate plans and have remembered Community Works Institute.
If you have named us as a beneficiary of your will, living trust, life insurance, retirement plan or other estate plan, we hope that you will let us know. By doing this, you will help Community Works Instituteplan for the future and help ensure that your wishes are carried out after your lifetime.
We appreciate your support for Community Works and for helping to develop and promote exemplary teaching strategies, practices, programs and models that support students becoming caring, responsible and active members of their communities. .
If you have remembered Community Works Institutein your estate plans or would like more information about how to leave a legacy to Community Works Institute, please contact:
Joe Brooks, Executive Director
Community Works Institute
Tel: 909-480-3966 email
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THERE ARE THREE WAYS TO MAKE A BEQUEST:
Specific Bequest
You designate a specific dollar amount, specific percentage, or specific property to Community Works.
Residual Bequest
Your estate will pay all debts, taxes, expenses, and specific bequests. The remaining amount — the residue — will be transferred to Community Works Institute.
Contingent Bequest
You can ask that Community Works Institute receive all or a portion of your estate only under certain circumstances. For example, you can designate Community Works Institute as a beneficiary of your estate only if there are no surviving close family members. Childless couples sometimes provide for the entire estate to go to the surviving spouse, or if the spouse does not survive, to Community Works.
Information that your attorney needs in order to prepare your bequest: Once you decide you would like to support Community Works work, simply provide your attorney with our legal designation language:
Community Works
PO Box 1390
Claremont, CA 91711 USA
Tel: 909-480-3966
Community Works is a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Community Works tax identification number is 03-0360306. |
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