GIVING TO MAXWELL CONSERVATION TRUST

Conservation Options

Your family may have land that you care deeply about, and would like to see preserved. There are many ways for the Trust to work with landowners. These options include:

• Conservation Restrictions
• Outright Gifts
• Conservation Buyers
• Advantage Sale

Other Ways of Giving

• Bequests
• Major Gifts
• Memorial Gifts
• Planned Gifts and Endowments
• Volunteer Stewards
• Trade Lands
• Appreciated Securities (stocks)
• Membership

Trade Lands

Donate land, buildings or lots not suitable for conservation that can be sold to the benefit of the Trust.

Appreciated Securities (stocks)

The general appreciation in stock values may mean that you can make a gift that is particularly tax-advantaged.

Gifts of appreciated securities held for more than one year are eligible for a charitable income tax deduction for their full market value. In addition, if the securities have appreciated in value since you acquired them, you completely avoid the capital gains tax you would incur if you sold them. So your actual cost of giving is less than that of an equivalent gift of cash.

To make a gift of stocks: Notify your broker in writing asking him/her to transfer the stock to the Maxwell Conservation Trust, Ltd., at Merrill Lynch. Then, please contact Maxwell Conservation Trust by phone or send us a copy of your letter.

If you hold the certificate: Send the stock certficate (unendorsed) and a signed (but not dated, and otherwise blank) stock power (available at your bank or your broker's office) in separate envelopes by registered mail to the address on our Contact page.

The Trust is a non-profit 501 (c) (3), which means that gifts of any type (land, cash, securities, etc.) will have definite tax benefits.

Annual Membership:

To join, please print, fill out and mail us a Membership Form. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, you can go to the Adobe Website and follow the steps for a free download.

• $10 Student/Senior/Budget
• $30 Land Saver
• $55 "Family" Land Saver
• $100 Land Protector
• $250 Land Caretaker
• $500 Land Conservator
• $1,000 Trustee of the Land
• $2,500 Keeper of the Land
• $5,000 Guardian of the Land
• Memorial Donation in memory of a loved one