Please join your friends and neighbors in supporting the Sharon Land Trust. We need your help to continue to preserve the rural environment of Sharon. Membership runs for one year, beginning on the first of January. An annual review of activities in mailed to members each Fall. Additional periodic reports are mailed as needed. Emails are sent on urgent, time sensitive issues.
Click here to open and print the membership form: Membership Form
Help the SLT Endowment: A land trust takes on the responsibility to legally and physically protect in perpetuity their easements and the land they own. But forever is a long, long time. Since we don’t know what the future holds, the board of the land trust has voted to establish an Endowment Fund, built on an initial bequest of $300,000 from longtime SLT supporter Garrett Goodbody. The land trust has set a goal of $1 million for our endowment. It may take many years for us to reach that goal. But, like all our objectives, it will only happen through the financial support and concern of local residents. For more details on the Endowment, click here.
Consider Planned Giving: According to the Connecticut Leave a Legacy organization, while 72 percent of all Americans support the work of charities annually, only 5.7 percent remember nonprofit organizations in their estate plans. When asked why this gap exists, most people say it is because they have not been asked or have not thought about it. Planned giving to the Sharon Land Trust is a way to work with your attorney, accountant or financial advisor to support a cause which you care about in your estate plans, and to leave behind a gift which lasts forever.
Planned giving may take the form of:
- Outright gifts
- Bequests in a Will
- Beneficiary of Retirement Plan Assets
- Beneficiary and/or Owner of an Existing Life Insurance Policy
In addition, there are other options which tend to be more complex, including:
- Life Income Gift
- Charitable Remainder Trusts
- Charitable Lead Trusts
For more information on planned giving and the associated tax benefits, please talk with your lawyer or financial/tax advisor or call:
- Diane Johnstone, Senior Vice President and Trust Officer,
Salisbury Bank and Trust: (860) 435-9801, ext. 1501
