Planned Giving
AIDS Research Alliance invites you to join The Legacy Circle
Designed to formally recognize and educate individuals who have generously included AIDS Research Alliance in their estate plans, the Legacy Circle gives donors the opportunity to ensure that the critical search for a cure continues for as long as it takes to end the AIDS crisis. Through advantageous tax treatment under both state and federal law, planned giving is a strategy to make a significant future gift in a way that will not affect your finances today. With careful planning, your estate can provide security for loved ones, minimize taxes and estate costs, and ensure your future participation in the fight to end AIDS. In planning your estate, please include AIDS Research Alliance among the charitable organizations that matter the most to you.Our planned giving donors share a common bond of generosity that sustains our work to stop HIV— thus ensuring that innovative and cutting edge research will continue to be available until there is a cure for AIDS. Please call us at 310.358.2423 or e-mail us at info@aidsresearch.org for further information on estate gifts and other planned giving opportunities such as bequests, charitable remainder trusts or charitable gift funds.
Under Legacy Circle
When considering planned giving options, it is important to have the assistance of legal counsel and financial advisors who are able to assess individual estate planning objectives and identify potentially adverse tax consequences. Any estate plan should be reviewed periodically to incorporate changes in tax laws and to consider an individual's changing needs, goals and intentions.
The appropriate designation for wills, trusts, insurance policies, stock transfers and life income arrangements is:
AIDS Research Alliance of America, a non-profit research corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the state of California.
We pause here to remember two Legacy Circle donors who died in 2005.
David Hope Michod was born in Queensland, Australia. He worked on a family tobacco farm for many years until landing a job at Rothmans of Pall Mall. David’s drive and passion helped him excel at all he did. Posted and trained throughout the world, David eventually landed in Atlanta, serving as president of Tobacco Exporters International and Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Lane Limited. After an early retirement, he returned to Australia, which served as home base for his extensive travel. David passed away in 2005 from melanoma cancer. David truly believed in the mission of AIDS Research Alliance. At his passing, he bequeathed $642,000 to AIDS Research Alliance, the second largest single gift in ARA history.
Close friend and retired ARA board member, Chuck Williams, remembers David as a true internationalist and gentleman. David’s passion for life was expressed through his love of travel, sailing and a thirst for knowledge of other cultures. It was that passion that inspired his incredible generosity to AIDS Research Alliance. He believed in finding the root cause of a problem, and that is precisely what AIDS Research Alliance is doing by finding medical solutions to the AIDS crisis. David Michod leaves behind an enduring story of hope in the search for a cure to AIDS.
Morris Fox was born and raised in northern England in 1921. He served in the English Royal Air Force during World War II. After the war, he immigrated to the United States. After settling in Southern California, Morris was an in-demand designer of store windows at many of the biggest department stores of the era, including Bullocks Wilshire, I. Magnin and Saks Fifth Avenue. For the last 15 years of his life, Morris lived comfortably in the Park La Brea Towers. In May 2005, Morris died of pneumonia. He was 84 years old, and survived by a circle of friends throughout the city. He didn’t know us personally, but Morris did know of our work and left ARA a quarter of his estate to pursue our independent research initiatives.
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