Planned Giving

No matter how well funded, nonprofit organizations typically fall short of receiving the income they need to remedy the problems faced by their clients.

Meaningful social programs require a baseline of stable funding to prevent vulnerable populations from experiencing dangerous interruptions in service.

Your one-time gifts are always appreciated, but perhaps you have reached a stage in your life when you are able to consider donating more substantial assets that could provide BACS with ongoing income. These may be donated via asset transfers or various income plans.

Asset Transfers

• Bequests

• Estate Planning

• IRAs

• Other Asset Transfers

Income Plans

• Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRTs), funded with
  cash or stock, or with real estate

• Gift Annuities

• Pooled Income Funds

BACS hosts workshops with planned giving professionals to answer your questions as you plan these generous and sustaining gifts.

Benefactors Society

If you have designated BACS as a recipient of a gift from your estate—in the form of a bequest, as beneficiary of a life insurance policy or retirement account, or other planning tool—you are automatically eligible to be enrolled as a Charter Member in our new planned giving association, the BACS Benefactors Society.

Simply contact Randy Street, Director of Development & Communications, at 510-613-0323 or rstreet@bayareacs.org to add your name to the list.

You do not need to disclose details of your gift at this time; we simply wish to acknowledge your support and lay the groundwork for enriching our partnership in “Keeping Adults Connected to Their Communities.”

BACS helped my mother stay in her own home until she passed away last year.

Staying in her home— and avoiding a nursing home—was the single most important thing to her as she grew older.

My husband and I had been fortunate in our careers, and we felt it was time to "pay it forward" and donate her property to BACS.