Scientists consider Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science one of the best places in the world to do research. I can tell you from my experience establishing the Kirk Center for Childhood Cancer and Immunological Diseases, that it is also one of the best places to do philanthropy.
Donald L. Kirk
Total Philanthropy Planning: Your Toolkit for Building a Legacy of Global Significance
The American Committee’s donor-centered approach to charitable giving, Total Philanthropy Planning, is no less bold than the Institute’s approach to science. In the same way that Weizmann’s research is pointing the way towards a new personalized medicine, Total Philanthropy Planning is about personalized philanthropic planning. Combining gifts that favor both donors and Weizmann, you can create a valuable philanthropic legacy that is both an inexhaustible resource for Weizmann and a source of pride for your family and generations to come.
Our gift planning pages will help you learn about the following:
- Ways to Give—Overview of gift vehicles that are the building blocks and DNA of charitable giving. Make a gift that costs nothing during your lifetime; make a gift without using cash; make a gift and receive income for life; increase inheritance to heirs while lowering its costs; make a gift to provide for loved ones.
- Core Needs and Named Fund Opportunities—“What are the highest priorities that Weizmann needs money for?”
- Discovery Fund—Promote the latest cutting-edge new science
- Research Fund—Advance specific fields of interest to you
- New Scientist’s Fund or President’s Development Chair—Help recruit and equip promising scientists
- President’s Contingency Fund—Tackle the Institute’s most pressing scientific and operational needs
- Bridge-the-Gap Fund—Transform great discoveries into new medicines and technologies
- Master’s or Doctoral Scholarship or Postdoctoral Fellowship—Champion the next generation of scientists
- Professorial Chair—Partner with a prominent scientist throughout their career
- Personalized Philanthropy Planning—Innovative ways to meet your goals and achieve recognition now.
- Blend Present and Future Gifts: When donors cannot establish their goal with a single gift, they can do it by using a combination of building blocks over time.
- Virtual Endowment: You can get your major fund started now with modest gifts and endow it later. Shows how to initiate your program with current gifts and then endow it in perpetuity through life income and estate gifts.
- Build Philanthropic Equity: Our special long-term arrangement enables you to start up your program immediately and endow it over time. Portion of payment covers operating costs, while the rest grows the endowment.
- Family Members Combine Gifts: You can create a family fund to honor or memorialize a loved one while supporting Weizmann. Some start a fund with a family heirloom, such as valuable jewelry or art, and grow it over time with different type of gifts from younger and older family members.
- “Step Up” a Gift to a Higher Level: You can grow many types of funds over time, such as a Discovery Fund or Research Fund. Or, you can begin by establishing a Master’s Scholarship, with the understanding that your gift will evolve into a Doctoral Scholarship, or even eventually to a Professorial Chair.
- Browse Donor Stories
- Recognition for All Donors
- Legal Designation for Remembering Weizmann
- Breaking News/Advisor Community
- Contact Gift Planning Staff (and Meet our Team)
For more information, visit our Total Philanthropy Planning website.