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How You Can Help
Support for Wyoming Stock
Growers Agricultural Land Trust (WSGALT) comes largely from private
individuals who are committed to preserving Wyoming’s open spaces, and
who have an appreciation for community-based approaches to natural
resource conservation. You can ensure WSGALT’s work will continue
by making a tax deductible donation of cash, securities, life insurance,
real-estate, or equipment. WSGALT also welcomes bequests. If
you would like to make a donation, please see our downloadable contribution form below or contact our staff.
Contribution Form
Maintain the Range Campaign
The passage of legislation
this year significantly increasing incentives for entering into
conservation easements (page 1) has provided a once-in-a-life time
opportunity to conserve Wyoming’s working ranches and
natural habitats. It also created
the need for WSGALT to grow its organizational capacity quickly to
accommodate the greater number of conservation easement requests it will
receive in 2007. To meet this
challenge, WSGALT’s Board of Directors has launched the Maintaining Wyoming’s Open Range
Campaign. The campaign is
designed to both enhance WSGALT’s near-term capabilities to take on
additional ranchland conservation projects and to improve its long-term
financial base. The campaign has
three components:
$100,000 will be raised for
an Opportunity Fund to
provide funding for greater travel, legal, and operating expenses
associated with increased demands for WSGALT’s services.
$300,000 will be directed
toward doubling WSGALT’s Rangeland
Legacy Endowment to $600,000 to help secure its operating
income. (A donor has already
agreed to contribute $100,000 to the endowment if WSGALT can raise a
matching sum.)
$300,000 is being sought from
foundations to provide three years of start up funding to hire a Development Director who
will organize WSGALT’s fundraising and outreach activities.
WSGALT needs $225,000 in
private contributions to make this lasting advancement in WSGALT’s
conservation abilities a reality.
Never before has the opportunity been so great or the time so
limited to make a true difference in ensuring that Wyoming’s scenic beauty,
abundant wildlife, and working ranches are a permanent part of its
landscape.
You can become a part of
WSGALT’s Maintaining
Wyoming’s Open Range Campaign by making a tax deductible gift
to support WSGALT’s work to conserve Wyoming’s ranchlands and
natural heritage. WSGALT accepts
gifts of cash, securities, credit cards, charitable annuities, charitable
trusts, and bequests. You can also
make a pledge to allow your gift to be given over time.
All donations over $2,500 or
more will receive a plaque and be invited to a special celebration at the
Campstool Ranch at Devils Tower, Wyoming for the completion of the
campaign on June 23, 2007.
For more information about
WSGALT, the Maintaining Wyoming’s Open Range Campaign, or how you can make a
charitable contribution contact.
Ed Prosser, Phone:
307-772-8751, ed@wsgalt.org
Commitment Levels
Wyoming Hero $50,000+
Rangeland Leader
$20,000 to $49,999
Rangeland Partner
$10,000 to $19,999
Rangeland Supporter
$5,000 to $9,999
Rangeland Sponsor $2,500 to $4,999
WSGALT Friend
$2,499 and below
New Giving Incentives for Older Individuals
Older Individuals can now give
portions of their retirement funds to charity and receive some nice tax
breaks in return. However they
must act fast. Under legislation
enacted this year, individual-retirement-account (IRA) holders over the
age of 70 1/2 can withdraw in 2006 and 2007 up to $100,000 tax free from
the accounts if it goes to a recognized charity. While the money is excluded from
taxable income and so un-eligible to be deducted on tax returns, it does
count toward the account owner's required minimum distribution for IRA
withdrawals. There are other
restrictions, so see your financial advisor for details.
Ways
to Give
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You
may download the contribution PDF form, print it, fill it out and then
mail it in. This requires Adobe acrobat to be on your
computer. If you don't have this free software follow the
link to find the software and following Adobes instructions for installation.
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Rangeland Legacy Endowment
Wyoming’s ranchlands our part of the state’s culture,
heritage, and identity. Many of the tools the Wyoming Stock Growers
Agricultural Land Trust uses to conserve ranchlands, such as conservation
easements, are perpetual. Such agreements last beyond the lifetime
of the donor, as well as the staff and the board of the recipient
organization. The Wyoming Stock Growers Agricultural Land Trust
(WSGALT) has established its Rangeland Legacy Endowment to provide
assurances to landowners and to supporters that it will have the
long-term economic resources to fulfill its stewardship
obligations.
An endowment is a fund created to provide a permanent
source of support, through both the good and the not-so-good times, to be
used for charitable purposes. Its principal (value) is preserved,
and only earnings are spent. Because the principle is maintained,
endowments are gifts that are said to “keep on giving”.
WSGALT’s
long-term goal is to build its endowment to one million dollars by 2008
(presently $283,000.) The
endowment size will supply funding to cover an increasing proportion of
WSGALT’s operating expenses.
Having a consistent source of financial support will allow WSGALT
to direct less time toward the ongoing search for operating dollars and
more toward working one-on-one with ranching families.
Your gift to the Rangeland Legacy Endowment can
be made in several forms, including cash, securities, and bequests,
either by as a separate gift or with the donation of a conservation
easement. For endowment gifts of $10,000 or more, WSGALT can create
a separate fund through the Wyoming Community Foundation in your name,
the name of your family or business—allowing you to make additional contributions
in any amount at any time, and providing you with your own quarterly
financial reports. Conversely, if you wish to remain anonymous, we
can guarantee that, too.
Your contribution to the Rangeland Legacy Endowment
will ensure WSGALT will be able to continue meet the growing challenges
of maintaining Wyoming’s ranchlands and open spaces now and in the
future.
Your commitment
to Wyoming ranchlands and open spaces can last beyond your
life-time. Consider WSGALT in your
will and estate planning.
For many of us, Wyoming ranchlands and open spaces are
one of the most beloved and enriching aspect of our lives. Your commitment to ensure future
generations enjoy these features of Wyoming’s landscape can last
beyond your life time. WSGALT will
be happy to assist in one of the many ways you can support ranchland
conservation through providing a gift in your will or financial
planning. Gifting methods include
contributions of life insurance policies, real-estate, appreciated
securities, and various charitable trusts. Each has their own advantageous for tax
planning purposes as well as in its ability to advance WSGALT’s
work. If you would like more
information about including WSGALT in your financial planning please
contact us at (307) 772-8751 or fill out and mail the
form above.
Honor a Steward
The
beauty of Wyoming’s ranchlands is testimony to hundreds of individuals
who have spent their lives working on the land. All residents and
visitors to Wyoming benefit from the efforts of these individuals;
however, few are ever recognized. You can honor one of these
individuals, or a ranch, through a gift to the Wyoming Stock Growers
Agricultural Land Trust of $500 or more. These gifts are listed in
our publications and website as “Honored Steward of the Land”. You
can also establish a permanent endowment in the name of the steward you
wish to recognize.
FOUNDING SUPPORTERS
WSGALT extends their appreciation
to their Founding Supporters. These businesses and individuals have
shown their committment to maintaining Wyoming's ranchlands and western
heritage by taking the opportunity to become a Founding Supporter.
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Chuck and Mary
Engebretsen
Stefan and
Susannah Borg
Bud O'Neill
William and Julie
Obering
Harold and Mary
Johnson
Rawlins National
Bank
Ray Hunkins
Bob and Suzanne
Taylor
Dr. H.J. McGee,
Jr.
John E. Fuller
Ron and Marie
Pfister
Charles and Ellie
Dana
Jerry and Ann
Palen
Tom and Karen
Arthur
Gary and Darlene
Lyons
Gene and Sudie
Trowbridge
Mr. and Mrs. Lou
Mack
Scott Oslund
Ed and Nancy
Prosser
Dick and Dianne
Van Pelt
Dick and Martha
Gray
Jeff and Sally
Biegert
Oliver and Nan
Boileau
Shively Hardware
Dan and Jean
Scott
Wolf Creek
Charitable Foundation
John and Judy Andrikopoulos
Senator Cliff and
Martha Hansen
Roger Osborne
Roma Rouse
Ann King
Hal Corbett and
Katie Curtiss
Community First
National Bank
Platte Valley
Foods, LLC
Peter and
Virginia Storer
Will and Susan
Speer
Bill and Carole
Ward
Tom and Betsy
Grainger
Tim and Jodie
White
John and Mariel
O'Grady
Scott and Serda
Tibbs
Stan and Donna
Devore
Town and Country
Realty, Inc.
Platte Valley
Medical Clinic, P.C.
Carl and Jessica
Lindstrom
Jim and Marian
Berger
Robert and Rosie
Berger
Archie and Grace
Berry Foundation
Gib and Kinta
Blumenthal
Tony and Linda
Brooks
Kurt and Laura
Bucholz
Wayland and
Marion Cato
Centennial
Retriever Club
Story Clark and
Bill Resor
Kelly Clay
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Lane Coulston
Amy Davis
Diamond King
Ranch
Cleveland H.
Dodge Foundation
Driskill Family
Mark and Trudy
Eisele
Mike and Joyce
Evans
Fanwood
Foundation
First Interstate
BancSystem Foundation
First Interstate
Bank
Marcia Gladstone
Jack and Donna
Glode
Joe Glode
Hall and Hall,
Inc.
Barbara Hauge
Donald and Bim
Kendall
L. Patton Kline
Tim Lindstrom
Little Deer Creek
Ranch
Paul Lowham
Patty Lufkin
John and Susannah
Lunt
Jim Magagna
Bill and Carol
Maloney
Lee and Carol
Martinez
George W.
McIlvaine
Meyers Land and
Cattle Company
Art and Catherine
Nicholas
Norcross Wildlife
Foundation
Mark Norem
Thomas O'Leary
Liz Claiborne and
Art Ortenberg Foundation
David F.
Palmerlee
Bruce and
Marianne Pauley
Glenn Pauley
Nancy D. Petry
Bart and Liz Rea
James Rinehart
Marietta Schumacher
David Schumacher
Homer A. and
Mildred S. Scott Foundation
Silver Spur Ranch
Phil J. Spano
Family
Elizabeth Storer
Duane Stranahan III
Tom Thorne
Wyoming Community
Foundation
Luke Lynch
Bill and Deborah
Silberstein
Doug Hart and Harriet
Corbett
Cynthia Lummis
and Al Wiederspahn
Randy and Chris
Reed
W. Perry Dray
John and Gigi
Leman
Sara Flitner
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Stewards of the Land
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Jim
and Marian Berger
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Lee
and Carol Marteniz
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Diamond
Ring Ranch
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Phil
J. Spano Family
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