Bequests
To help achieve our long-term goals, the Assistance Dog Institute is seeking new funding for expanded programs and new initiatives. We want to grow our Associate’s and Master’s degree programs, and launch a Bachelor’s degree program. We want to continue and further our exciting research into canine cognition, and human/canine partnerships. We want to expand our work with educating at-risk teens and with people in need of social/therapy interventions in the community. We want to increase the number of puppies and dogs in training and have more space for them to exercise and play.

If you have visited ADI’s campus, you know that we use every square foot of our space for dogs, people and programs. Significant growth would require significant improvements to our infrastructure.

One way you might consider helping the Institute achieve its long-term goals is by setting up a planned gift. There are many methods by which someone may make a planned gift to ADI

A Charitable Bequest is simply a distribution from your estate to a charitable organization through your last will and testament. There are different kinds of bequests. For each, you need to use specific language to indicate the precise direction of your assets, and to successfully carry out your final wishes.

General Bequests are legacies left to certain people or causes that come from the general value of the estate, and are made by designating a specific dollar amount, a particular asset or a fixed percentage of your estate.

Specific Bequests are made when a particular item or property is bequeathed for a designated purpose (e.g., equipment with a certain designated use, or funds to be used to support a particular program or goal, such as an endowed faculty chair at ADI.)

Residuary Bequests are made when you intend to leave the residue portion of your assets after other terms of the will have been satisfied.

Contingency Bequests allow you to leave a portion of your estate to a particular charity if your named beneficiary does not survive you.

Please contact the Institute (info@assistancedog.org, 707.545.DOGS) for more information on leaving a legacy to our programs.