Leave a Meaningful Legacy

"With our legacy gift to Chamber Music Northwest, we feel we can pass on our love for chamber music to the next generation." -Robin and Bob Holmes

There are many ways to help ensure Chamber Music Northwest's future through a commitment made today. Your planned gift of cash, securities or other assets can provide you with tax benefits, and help sustain the excellence of Chamber Music Northwest long into the future. Charitable bequests add to our permanent Endowment Fund to generate annual support and help secure our long-term financial security.

With a planned gift to CMNW, you may make a larger contribution than current income permits. Charitable gifts made through your will are fully deductible for estate tax purposes, and may result in lowering your estate tax bracket. You can choose to endow or support a program in which you have a special interest.

Above all, your foresight and generosity today help you assure that CMNW programs continue for the enrichment of future generations.

The following information may be useful when naming CMNW in a will or trust:

Legal name and address:
Chamber Music Northwest
522 S.W. Fifth Avenue, Suite 920
Portland, OR 97204

Ways to include CMNW in your estate plan:
• Specific bequest "I give to Chamber Music Northwest, a non-profit corporation of Oregon, _______ ($ dollars)."

• Residual bequest "I give to Chamber Music Northwest, a non-profit corporation of Oregon, _______ (% of the residue of my estate)."

• You may name Chamber Music Northwest as the beneficiary of your IRA, retirement plan, or life insurance policy.

• You may create a Charitable Remainder Trust, a Charitable Lead Trust, or other designated fund for the benefit of Chamber Music Northwest.

Please consult your tax and financial advisors to determine how a planned gift will affect you and your estate.

Nautilus Circle Members
Carole Alexander
Anonymous
Scott and Margaret Arighi
Diane Boly
Theodore and Celia Brandt
Evelyn J. Brzezinski
Nathan Davis
William and Suzanne Dolan
Robert and Normandie Holmes
Robert and Sally Landauer
Muriel Lezak
Wilfried and Deanna Mueller-Crispin
Janice Orloff
Rodney and Sandra Page
James and Norma Pizza
Alberto Rafols and Richard Scott
Judson Randall
George and Claire Rives
Laurens and Judith Ruben
Bruce Weber
Helen Jo and Bill Whitsell

Chamber Music Northwest has established the Nautilus Circle to recognize individuals who have remembered CMNW in their estate plans. If you have made future provisions for CMNW and are willing to be acknowledged for doing so, please let us know so that we might honor your commitment as a member of our Nautilus Circle. You need not provide further details of your plans.

Contact CMNW at 503-223-3202, or