Planned Giving: A Legacy That Lasts
Your generosity today can have a lasting impact tomorrow.
Planned giving provides a meaningful way to support the OMS Foundation while ensuring your legacy endures. By including the Foundation in your estate plans, through bequests, charitable trust, retirement assets or other planned gifts, you can make a lasting impact on the future of oral and maxillofacial surgery. These thoughtful gifts help advance research, education and humanitarian initiatives, empowering the future of OMS leaders and improving patient care worldwide – long after your lifetime.
Ways to Make a Planned Gift
There are many ways to structure a planned gift to the OMS Foundation, allowing you to support the specialty in a way that aligns with your financial and philanthropic goals.
Common options include:
• bequests through your will or living trust
• life insurance policy beneficiary or ownership
• charitable gift annuities
• charitable remainder or lead trusts
• gifts of retirement assets
• and other creative estate planning strategies
To ensure your gift is designated as you intended, we encourage you to use the Foundation’s legal name- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation and federal tax id number 36-6111168 in all documents. Some suggested language for a bequest or codicil is listed below, and our Director of Development is available to assist you with any questions or guidance thought the process. We also encourage you to consult with your attorney or financial advisor before committing to a planned gift.
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Suggested language to use in your will or codicil:
For a residual bequest from the remainder of your estate:
“I give ____% of the residue of my estate to:
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation
9700 Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, IL 60018
(Federal Tax ID #36-6111138) for its general purpose.”
For a gift of cash, securities or other property:
“I give _____________ (dollar amount or specific asset) to:
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation
9700 Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, IL 60018
(Federal Tax ID #36-6111138) for its general purpose.”
Planned Giving: A Legacy That Lasts
Your generosity today can have a lasting impact tomorrow.
Planned giving provides a meaningful way to support the OMS Foundation while ensuring your legacy endures. By including the Foundation in your estate plans, through bequests, charitable trust, retirement assets or other planned gifts, you can make a lasting impact on the future of oral and maxillofacial surgery. These thoughtful gifts help advance research, education and humanitarian initiatives, empowering the future of OMS leaders and improving patient care worldwide – long after your lifetime.
Join the R.V. Walker Legacy Society: Leave Your Mark
You can become a member of the R.V. Walker Legacy Society by pledging a planned gift of $25,000 or more to the OMS Foundation. Membership in this distinguished society recognizes your commitment to advancing research, education, and humanitarian initiatives, creating a lasting legacy that in the specialty for generations to come. To join the R.V. Walker Legacy Society, complete the New Member Commitment Form
Whatever I leave to the OMS Foundation is assurance that my life’s work will not perish”
Dr. Robert V. Walker, 1924-2011
Already a Member? Increase Your Impact
If you are already a member of the R.V. Walker Legacy Society and would like to increase your planned gift, you can further strengthen your legacy and support for the OMS Foundation. To update your commitment, please complete the Upgrade Commitment Form, which will help us recognize your enhanced support and its lasting impact on research, education, and humanitarian initiatives within the specialty.
Being an OMS Foundation contributor through the RV Walker Society pledge allows us to provide a greater contribution to our specialty without as much of a financial impact on our current budget. Giving a few hundred, or even a few thousand dollars now, goes a little way, and has a much larger impact on our personal budget. The OMS Foundation is a great organization that is funding the scientific discoveries that will define the future of OMS. The RV Walker society allows us to provide a much more significant financial contribution as well as a personal legacy.
– Dr. David Fenton and Dr. Jodi Levy