Planned Giving
Leave a Legacy for Bellingham Students
A Gift for the Future
You have the power to help students for years to come. When you leave a gift to the Bellingham Public Schools Foundation in your will or estate plan, your impact will stretch into the future for generations.
Your gift will help create promising futures for every child. You can make sure students have the support they need to learn, grow, and succeed. By helping them reach their potential, you are helping build a stronger, healthier community for everyone.
How Your Gift Can Help
Leaving a legacy gift is a powerful way to impact our community for generations to come. Your gift, big or small, will go directly to helping students and teachers in Bellingham long after you are gone.
Imagine what your gift could do:
- Help students in crisis. Your gift could provide “Yes Cards” for hundreds of kids who need a warm coat, a hot meal, or a safe place to sleep.
- Fund big ideas. You could help teachers bring learning to life with creative classroom projects, like building robots or exploring the Salish Sea.
- Support a student’s dream. You could help a graduating senior take the next step in their education with a college scholarship.
- Give kids a chance. Your gift could help a student who is struggling to stay in school find the hope they need to graduate.
Your legacy will be seen in the lives of the students you help today, and in the community they help build tomorrow.
Join the Legacy Circle
When you include the Bellingham Public Schools Foundation in your estate plan, you become a member of our Legacy Circle. This special group of donors shares a deep commitment to the future of our students.
We would be honored to welcome you to this group and recognize your thoughtful gift.
Getting Started is Easy
Including the Bellingham Public Schools Foundation in your will or trust is a simple process.
Here are a few ways to do it:
- You can name the Foundation as a beneficiary of your will, retirement plan, or life insurance policy.
- You can leave a specific amount or a percentage of your estate.
To learn more, please contact Samuel Gearhart at (360) 676-6479 or
Samuel.gearhart@bellinghamschools.org.
Thank you for thinking about the future of Bellingham’s students.
When you do a kindness for someone that’s unexpected, whether it is big or small, it does change the course of things. And they’ll either go home with a heart that’s been lifted, or pay it forward and show kindness in a different way. It spreads that way and is so powerful. The Foundation understands the importance of public education and how it impacts the whole community.
Julie B., former BPS teacher and principal, former BPSF board member