PLANNED GIVING
Learn more about Charitable Gift
Annuities on page 15. It’s a chance
to let your money be a gift to
others while also serving as income
surgeon Dr. Cass Nakasone. The former
“It’s remarkable that a donor is so
school principal also established a
committed to this and I know patients
charitable gift annuity especially for
will benefit from our understanding of
Straub. She created a scholarship to
how modern medicine complements
encourage physicians at Straub to
non-traditional practices that promote
multiple assets, and be given as
learn integrative medicine, so they can
mind, body and spirit.”
an outright gift, a bequest after
have more tools to better care
for their patients.
Concetta said. “When you give, you get
“Integrated medicine is a discipline
that we want to be aware of as we
partner with patients in preventative
and comprehensive health care,” said
internist Dr. Kathleen Kozak. “Concetta’s
contribution has allowed me to learn
more about alternative methods for
healing responses.
“Giving is receiving. It’s just that simple,”
back to you. Charitable gift annuities
are simply one of a variety of gift
vehicles known as planned gifts.
These gifts can be funded with
passing, or a gift made today to
provide significant tax benefits
and lifelong income.
back in a million different ways.”
Inspired by her experience with cancer,
Concetta is now working at finding
more time to have fun. She is selling her
home to free her up so she can take art
and dance courses, travel, read, cook,
exercise and enjoy the company of her
friends.
Thanks to ever-changing research and
devoted doctors, “Whenever I hear
the word cancer, I feel the word hope,”
she said.
“Giving is receiving. It’s just that simple...when you give,
you get back in a million different ways.”
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