Your Gift Helps Working Families
Achieve the American Dream
As home and rental prices continue to increase, households are being priced out of their communities. Many of these households come from families that have historically been displaced and excluded from wealth-building opportunities.
Now is the time to break the cycle of generational poverty, with your help.
Since our founding in 1999, Proud Ground’s community land trust model had helped more than 650 households become first-time, and often first-generation, homeowners. Homeownership provides security and the opportunity to build equity, which generates wealth.
With your gift, we can expand permanently affordable housing opportunities in our community, ensuring multi-generational stability for families in Oregon and Southwest Washington. You can help make the American dream of homeownership a reality for working families.
If you have questions about giving—including bequests, gifts of stock, and gifts made from a donor advised fund—please contact Marilyn Kun or speak with your financial advisor.
Help Shape Our Future
Your gift to Proud Ground is an investment in a livable, equitable, and economically viable community where every family has access to affordable homes, generation after generation.
As a Community Land Trust, if you make a gift of $25 or more during the calendar year, and live within our service area, you will be invited to the annual membership meeting with Proud Ground homeowners. This gives you voting rights in shaping our organizational decisions and ensures that the very community members we serve have a direct role in steering our mission-driven initiatives.
Meet Homeowner Whitney
“People that come from where I'm from typically stay renters and have no resources or aspirations to own a home. Walking through the doors of my own home was an amazing moment filled with gratitude for all the people who helped me on the journey…creating this life-changing opportunity for my family and me. My three-year-old was so ecstatic to have a space that was her own.”
Types of Gifts
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Cash
Proud Ground honors general, restricted, and anonymous cash donations in the form of EFT payments, credit card, and checks payable to Proud Ground.
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Property*
Leave your home, parcel of land, or commercial property to Proud Ground by including this sample bequest language. in your will or contact us for custom estate planning.
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Stock
Proud Ground also accepts gifts of stock.
Gifts from Your Estate Plan
“I give to Proud Ground because I believe that their model of permanent affordability is a good investment. I know that I am making a long-term impact in my community through both my real estate development investments and my individual donations to their nonprofit.”
—Proud Ground Donor
Types of Planned Giving:
Type |
How it Works |
Advantages |
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| Living Trust | Create a trust that will give your assets to Proud Ground after your lifetime. | This trust avoids probate after your lifetime. |
| Bequest | In your will, leave your property, financial assets, or a share of your residual estate to Proud Ground. | A bequest can either be outright or contingent upon death of a family member. Heirs are not subject to estate taxes. |
| Charitable Remainder Trust | Funds with cash, stocks, or other appreciated assets like real property | You or a designee are paid a fixed percentage of the market value of trust assets for life or a fixed amount of time. Assets are not subject to capital gains tax and you will receive an income tax deduction. |
| Charitable Gift Annuity | Funds with cash or other assets with a minimum gift of $10,000. | You receive fixed payments for life without investment worries and an income tax deduction. |
| Life Insurances | Name Proud Ground as the primary or contingent beneficiary or transfer a policy to Proud Ground. | You can contribute either a new policy or one you already have. |
| Qualified Retirement Plans, IRA | Name Proud Ground as the primary of contingent beneficiary of all or part of your qualified plan or IRA. | The gift is not subject to IRA taxation (income and estate taxes) on distributions after your lifetime. |
| Transfer on Death Deed | Leave your property to Proud Ground by signing and recording the deed today. It does not take effect until after your lifetime. | This deed avoids probate and has favorable tax implications for the beneficiary. |