The type of planned gift that is best for you depends on your needs and expectations. Consider what you would like to accomplish with your gift. Explore your motivations and prospective plans for the future. Will you require lifetime income from your gift? Are you in need of tax relief? Would you like to create a legacy through an endowed fund? The Planned Giving Office can help you and your family with these important considerations in order to find the plan that suits your needs, as well as fulfills your philanthropic objectives.

For more information contact Cameron Jones (cjones@risd.edu), Director of Leadership Gifts, or call 401 454-6790.

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Jesse + Helen Rowe Metcalf Society
As the pivotal force behind RISD’s founding in 1877, Jesse and Helen Rowe Metcalf shared a vision and worked to realize it. You, too, can build on the past and make a mark on the future by joining the Jesse + Helen Rowe Metcalf Society, an association of supporters who have demonstrated their generosity and commitment to RISD by incorporating the college or the museum into their estate plans. If you include RISD in your will, establish a life-income plan or make RISD the beneficiary of an insurance policy or retirement plan, you become an automatic member of the society.