You can give hope to millions of people worldwide with VHL and other tumors by extending your support of VHL Family Alliance programs beyond your lifetime. Whether your legacy is large or small, you can support our programs of education, service, and research by remembering VHLFA in your will.
To make a bequest of cash or other property to VHLFA, your will (or supplemental codicil, if you do not wish to write a new will) should state:
"I give and bequeath to the VHL Family Alliance, Inc., a non-profit corporation, organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and having its principal office at 2001 Beacon St, Suite 208, Boston, MA 02135-7787 USA, the sum of $_____ or __ percent of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate to be used for general purposes of the organization."
A bequest to VHLFA is fully deductible for estate tax purposes. In addition, remembering VHLFA in your will is an important and personal way of providing hope to people with von Hippel-Lindau disease for generations to come. You may wish to learn more about other gift opportunities by consulting your attorney, accountant, and/or tax estate planning specialist, or simply write to VHLFAs Chairman of Development, 2001 Beacon St, Suite 208, Boston, MA 02135-7787 USA, info@vhl.org.
As printed in the VHL Family Forum 6:5, Research Report, December 1998. For permission to reprint, please contact VHL Family Alliance, info@vhl.org.