Click here for a Legacy Society Brochure

Click here for a list of current Legacy Guild Members

Invest in our Community's Future Through:

• Bequests in your will

• Outright gifts of cash, stocks, bonds, real estate, and other property

• Designation of United Way of Inner Wisconsin as the beneficiary on life insurance policies or annuities, IRA's, 401(k)s and pension PODs or TODs (payable or transferable upon death)

• Establishment of a trust during life or within your will

• Memorials

The Legacy Society is United Way's endowment program that grew out of the Planned Giving & Endowment Program that started in 1984.  The mission of the Legacy Society is to accumulate enough funds to allow all of the operational expenses of United Way to be paid from the earnings on those assets. Once the goal, $4 million, is achieved, all money raised in the annual campaigns will go to fund programs in south Wood & Adams Counties supported by United Way.

Every gift to the Legacy Society is important; each contribution helps to make an impact on our community’s future. However, those who
contribute $1,000 or more to the Legacy Society become members of the Legacy Guild. Guild members will be recognized with engraved stones for years to come on the United Way sign.

United Way‘s Legacy Society, along with George W. Mead II, Chairman of the Mead Witter Foundation, unveiled its Legacy Guild Sign for the first time at the annual Thank You Night for volunteers held on Dec. 8th, 2005. As new donors become eligible in the future, a stone with their name will be added to the sign. This new sign will forever be part of the United Way of Inner Wisconsin.