More and more charities are working to snag a portion of the estimated $9 trillion of wealth that baby boomers are expected to transfer in the next 10 years or so. The process of securing a planned ...

Judy Morency never thought of herself as the kind of person who could leave a quarter of a million dollars to charity. With a combined income of less than $100,000, “I didn’t think my husband and I ...

In October 2024, Elise Brunelle, executive director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO), received a surprising letter. It informed her that a donor named Mary Hoffman left the VSO a substantial ...

The Health First Foundation is honored to announce a transformational seven-figure planned gift from the late Madeline Childs to support the William Childs Hospice House ...

In the early 1960s, Stuart Field ’65 joined a small cadre of Bates students mentored by Professor of Chemistry Walter Lawrance to conduct summertime water testing and pollution mitigation along the ...

Through a planned gift valued at an estimated $985,000, Dwain is establishing the Charlotte Posey Teague Endowed Scholarship in memory of his mother. The scholarship will support education students ...

Smith College is set to receive $51 million, the largest planned gift in its 150-year history, from a 1979 graduate who has asked to stay publicly anonymous, the school said Thursday. The bequest will ...