Charitable Contributions, Trusts and Planned Giving:

We advise on the structure of charitable gifts and planned gifts to be received by our charitable clients. Such structures may include partial interest gifts, charitable trusts, and gifts of business interests of various types. If necessary, we can assist our individual clients’ planned giving and design sophisticated gift structures. Specific advice is also available on the design and implementation of

• Charitable gifts, contributions, and deductibility
• Endowments: creation, use, and management
• Endowment policies
• Donor gift instruments including restricted and outright gifts, donor advised funds, and board   designated funds
• Modification of charitable trusts (under the doctrine of Cy Pres)

Additional Links:

Guidestar.org
http://www.guidestar.org/

Publication 78, Cumulative List of Organizations described in Section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986:
http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=96136,00.html

National Association of State Charity Officials:
http://www.nasconet.org/agencies/document_view