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Ways to Help The Foundation for Mind-Body-Medicine

The Foundation for Mind-Body Medicine would like your help in improving the quality of life, healthcare, security and education for Alabama’s citizens. The Foundation is a non-profit educational and research organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care for Alabama’s residents, to improve scholastic achievements for Alabama’s children, to decrease violence in Alabama’s schools, and to increase the success rate of rehabilitation in Alabama’s already overcrowded prison system.

The Foundation and its staff strive very hard in the attempt to bring quality healthcare, security, and education to every citizen in the State of Alabama. No matter what ethnic background, financial status or stature, all of Alabama’s population deserves the best of what is available in the world.

Introducing Mind-Body-Medicine to Alabama’s populous will improve healthcare, education and security to all of our citizens in turn increase our residents quality of life. Mind-Body-Medicine is proven to extend life expectancy, reduce infant mortality, improve scholastic achievements, reduce crime in our schools, and improve the rehabilitative effects in our prisons.

In addition to the improvement of Alabama’s healthcare, security and education for the less fortunate, The Foundation for Mind-Body-Medicine also looks to even further the quality of Healthcare, Security and Education for the more fortunate. By introducing the effects of Mind-Body-Medicine to the quality of medicine and technology today, Disease Prevention, Quicker Recovery, Improved Quality of Life, and Prolonged Life Expectancy can be achieved.

The Foundation does not only serve the less fortunate but serves anyone and everyone in need of a better life, better health, improvement in their home and work atmospheres, improvement in academic and sport achievements, and so much more. Mind-Body-Medicine effects the whole person from their mind to their body improving your whole person both physically and mentally.

How your unrestricted Donations are allocated . . . . .

Ø Funding of Various Programs

Ø Purchasing of Equipment

Ø Guest Lecturers

Ø Operational Expenses

Ø Research Studies

Ø Community Education, Lectures and Seminars

Ø Program Expansion

Different Ways to Donate

There are many ways to help the foundation. You may make any of the following donations on the attached pledge card or by calling The Foundation for Mind-Body-Medicine Office of Development toll free at 1-888-560-2474.

Ø Cash/Checks – Please make all checks payable to The Foundation for Mind-Body-Medicine.

Ø Credit Card – Please make sure and include your name, the name of the cardholder, the card number and expiration date, the amount of your donation and the designation of your gift unless it is unrestricted. We currently accept VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express.

Ø Matching Gifts – If you think you may be employed by a Matching Gift Company, contact your personnel office before making your gift to The Foundation for Mind-Body-Medicine. They will have a form that you can submit to our office at the time that you choose to make your gift. Our office will verify your matching gift eligibility and return the form to your employer.

Ø Stocks/Securities – If you have held stock for more than a year, by contributing appreciated stock certificates to The Foundation for Mind-Body-Medicine before they are sold, you will avoid the capital gains tax and receive a full income tax deduction for the full fair market value of the gift. You can give stocks by having your broker transfer them to The Foundation for Mind-Body-Medicine account.

Please let us know which stock you are sending and the number of shares before making the gift so that we can acknowledge and process your gift receipt.

Ø Charitable Remainder Trusts – The Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) is similar to other types of trusts except that it has a charitable beneficiary. It grants or transfers property irrevocably to a trust and specifies how trust income and principal are to be distributed. The trust may be created to become effective during life or at death.

Ø Gift Annuities – The charitable gift annuity is among the oldest, simplest and most popular methods of making a deferred charitable gift. A gift annuity is a combination of a gift and an investment whereby, in exchange for a transfer of cash, marketable securities, or under some circumstances, real estate, the charitable organization will contractually guarantee to pay a specified annuity to the donor and/or other beneficiary.

Ø Bequests – Each year many individuals exercise their privilege to determine the final distribution of their estates and designate that a portion of their assets be used for the benefit and support of The Foundation for Mind-Body-Medicine. Gifts by will have become an integral part of the American philanthropic tradition. Such gifts enable a person to make significant contributions that may not have been possible during their life. Such bequests may designate that The Foundation for Mind-Body-Medicine receive a bequest of a certain amount of money or certain percentage of the estate, or may designate that The Foundation be the residual beneficiary of the estate after bequests have been made to others.

Ø Life Insurance Policies – An important but frequently overlooked role of life insurance is the one it can play in planned charitable giving. Life insurance itself can be the direct funding medium of a gift, permitting the donor to make a substantial gift for a relatively modest annual outlay. Life insurance can also be used to replace an asset that has been given to a charitable organization. The Foundation can either be the beneficiary (primary or successor) or the owner of such a policy.

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