The Opportunity

Kansas Health Foundation (KHF) has provided the leadership gifts for this campaign with $800,000 to support the program operating fund, and offered a challenge grant of $1 million to jump-start the creation of the Literacy Endowment Fund. Through the "Turn a Page. Touch a Mind." Campaign, you will have the opportunity to join the KAAP Executive Committee and the Kansas Health Foundation with a financial gift that will help develop a love of reading in children throughout Kansas. Each gift to this campaign will ensure that Kansas children have the tools to grow healthy in mind and body through early literacy. In addition, each endowed gift to the campaign will be match by the challenge grant from KHF, when we raise $1 million.

Ways You Can Make a Gift

The Kansas Pediatric Foundation is classified as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization by the IRS. As such, the Foundation accepts a variety of gifts that are tax-deductible as allowed by law, including:

Gifts of Cash - outright or pledged over a period of five years
Gifts of Securities - including stocks, bonds, mutual funds and IRAs
Gifts of Personal Property - i.e., coin collections, antique cards, artwork, etc. The feasibility of accepting these gifts will be determined by the Campaign Leadership Committee.
Gifts of Real Property - including real estate, home, business property, farmland and pastures, etc. The Foundation reserves the right to liquidate at any time.
Gifts of Trusts - including charitable remainder trusts, unitrusts, lead trusts, family trusts, annuity trusts, etc.
Gifts of Insurance - the Foundation must be both the owner and beneficiary for the donor to receive a charitable deduction.
Gifts of Bequests - i.e., gifts received at death directed by a will or living trust.

Any one of these gifts or a combination of these types of gifts, may be used to create a current or deferred gift to the Campaign. A current gift is a gift to be received during the five-year pledge window of the Campaign. A deferred gift (also called an estate gift, planned gift or ultimate gift) is a gift that will not likely be realized during the five-year window.
We encourage you to discuss these various giving methods with your accountant, financial advisor and/or attorney and select the most effective way for you to make a gift to the Foundation.
To discuss options for your gift to this campaign, contact Beth Shearer, Director of Development, at 785-493-4688 or email bethshearer@cox.net.