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Make an Impact with Cash or Securities

Support Population Connection with a gift that aligns with your financial goals and maximizes tax benefits. Both cash gifts and gifts of long-term appreciated securities offer flexible, tax-efficient ways to contribute to our mission.

Option 1: Cash Gift

A cash gift is a simple and direct way to support Population Connection and make an immediate difference. Cash gifts provide valuable flexibility, allowing us to put your support to work right away.

  • Immediate Tax Deduction: In the year of your gift, you may claim an income tax charitable deduction for the full amount of your gift, subject to IRS limitations. You can carry forward any unused deduction for up to five additional years.
  • Ease and Flexibility: You can make a cash gift as a one-time donation or set up recurring contributions to sustain ongoing support.
  • Direct, Immediate Impact: Your cash gift provides essential funding that allows Population Connection to meet its most pressing needs.

Option 2: Gift of Long-Term Appreciated Securities

Donating long-term appreciated securities, such as stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, can provide significant tax advantages. Gifts of these assets can help you avoid capital gains taxes while supporting Population Connection with a gift that costs you less.

  • Avoid Capital Gains Taxes: When you donate appreciated securities, you can avoid paying capital gains tax on the appreciation, which can significantly reduce the cost of your gift.
  • Fair Market Value Deduction: As long as you have held your securities for more than one year, you may take a charitable deduction for their fair market value at the time of your gift, subject to IRS limitations. You may carry forward any unused deduction for up to five additional years.
  • Enhanced Impact: By donating securities directly, your gift can be larger than if you sold the securities and donated the after-tax proceeds, maximizing your impact on Population Connection’s mission.

How to Make a Gift

  • For Cash Gifts: You can donate online, by check, or set up a recurring gift through our website to provide ongoing support.
  • For Gifts of Securities: Contact your broker to arrange a transfer of appreciated securities directly to Population Connection. Please let us know about your planned gift so we can assist with the transfer.

Consult with Your Advisors

We encourage you to speak with your financial and tax advisors before making a gift. Both cash gifts and gifts of appreciated securities offer unique advantages, allowing you to support Population Connection in a way that aligns with your financial and philanthropic goals.

Thank you for considering a generous gift to help sustain Population Connection.

Environmental and socioeconomic benefits

Women who have reproductive autonomy generally choose to have smaller families. This slows population growth and creates opportunities for social, economic, and environmental improvements. Slower population growth reduces pressures on natural resources, habitats, and food systems. Within the context of climate change, slowing population growth is key to achieving greenhouse gas emissions targets, and the health, education, and economic benefits afforded through family planning help reduce climate vulnerability and increase resilience for communities around the world.

Low Section Of Women Taking Water From Tubewell In Village Area Of Haryana, India

Health benefits

When women and couples have access to the resources necessary to freely and intentionally choose the number, timing, and spacing of their births, a wide variety of health benefits ensue also, including reductions in maternal mortality and morbidity, infant and child mortality, and unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions.

People walking down main road in Jinka town, Naciones, Ethiopia, Africa

The powerful, neglected solution

Read more about how empowering women and girls to take charge of their bodies and lives is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in this blog post.

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How Your Gift Helps

Your planned gift to Population Connection helps us educate young people and advocate progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s resources. Among many things, your support will help us:

 
develop K-12 and secondary education materials for teachers and professors so they can easily incorporate population studies into their classes;
 
 
advocate for reproductive health and lead grassroots outreach efforts to college students to motivate them to take action on behalf of marginalized communities and our beleaguered planet.
 
 
raise awareness of population issues and the need for empowering solutions through our extensive online and offline communications.