74 cottages. An estimated $12 million. One neighborhood.
Nobody can picture $12 million. Everybody can picture 74 front doors, and count how many are still dark.
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1of 74 cottages funded
Gifts and pledges have funded the first cottage. Each home on the map is colored in as it is fully funded.
Illustrative arrangement. The site plan is on The Plan.
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Every gift goes into a real home with a front door and a porch, for a neighbor who has been waiting for one.
Gifts are made to St. Vincent de Paul Georgia, a 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 58-0967972, and are restricted to the Cottages of providence.
What it takes
These figures are based on the project's preliminary budget estimate and will be updated as costs are firmed up.
Eight ways to build it
Leave a legacy gift
A gift in your will or trust costs nothing today and may be the largest gift you ever make.
Sample language →IRA qualified distribution
If you are 70 and a half or older, give directly from an IRA.
How it works →Give in kind
Materials, appliances, furnishings, professional services, and skilled trades.
Tell us what you can offer →Talk with someone
For pledges, for cottage sponsorships, or for anything you would rather discuss than click.
Giving details
Account numbers, addresses, and sample language. Open only what you need.
Donor-advised fundGrant address and EIN
Recommend a grant to:
EIN 58-0967972
Please note "Cottages of providence" in the grant purpose.
Gifts of stockTransfer instructions for your broker
Giving stock you have held more than a year lets you deduct the full value and avoid capital gains on the appreciation.
Give your broker these details
The account name must read exactly as shown, including "Society of" and "Inc.", or the transfer can fail.
Tell us the gift is coming
Stock arrives at St. Vincent de Paul Georgia without your name attached and without any note of what it is for. Unless you tell us, we cannot thank you, and we cannot direct the gift to the Cottages of providence.
Before or as the transfer is made, email [email protected] with:
- Your name and contact details
- The name of the stock
- The number of shares
- That the gift is restricted to the Cottages of providence
IRA qualified charitable distributionAge 70½ and older
If you are 70 and a half or older, you can give directly from an IRA as a qualified charitable distribution. The gift is not counted as taxable income, and for many donors it satisfies part or all of a required minimum distribution.
Before you give from your IRA, talk with Kathy Johnson at 770-364-3943 or [email protected]. She will send you the details your IRA custodian needs.
Leave a legacy giftSample bequest language
Naming the Cottages of providence in your will, trust, retirement account, or life insurance policy is one of the simplest ways to give, and it costs nothing during your lifetime.
Building the neighborhood is half the promise. Keeping it standing for the people who live in it is the other half, and legacy gifts are how that half gets funded.
I give to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Georgia, a Georgia nonprofit corporation, EIN 58-0967972, the sum of $______ (or ______ percent of my residuary estate), to be used for the Cottages of providence.
Your attorney or advisor can adapt this language to your plans.
Please let us know if you have included us, so we can thank you and make sure your intent is recorded.
We are glad to talk with you or your advisor. We are not able to give tax advice.
About your gift
Gifts to this project are irrevocable. Once a gift is made it belongs to St. Vincent de Paul Georgia and cannot be returned.
If the project cannot be completed, St. Vincent de Paul Georgia may direct gifts given to it toward the organization's other charitable work. That decision would rest with its board, it would follow only a determination that the Cottages of providence cannot proceed, and we would write to every donor we have a record of to say what happened and where their gift went.
Larger gifts are documented in a written gift agreement. If you want terms different from these, that is the conversation to have before you give rather than after.