$100K Challenge Match
Barclay Friends has launched a $100K Challenge Grant Campaign to achieve the $1.5 million fundraising goal for the recently completed Goshen Memory Care Residences. Funded by three dedicated contributors, Barclay Friends invites donors to participate in a dollar-for-dollar match, creating the opportunity to double contributions and make a significant impact. Click here to learn more.
Annual Giving
Caring Fund
The Caring Fund gives residents and family members peace of mind knowing that they will not be asked to leave if they run out of financial resources. About 30 percent of residents in skilled nursing care receive Medical Assistance or Medicaid, which does not fully cover the actual cost of care for these residents. Barclay Friends absorbs about $2 million annually in unreimbursed care.
Horticultural Therapy
Barclay Friends is one of the few long-term care facilities in the region to have a comprehensive horticultural therapy program. Established in 2000, our horticultural therapy program offers five outdoor gardens available to residents, families and staff. Our full-time Horticulturalist facilitates numerous activities including floral design, indoor and outdoor gardening, and sensory stimulation. Resident-designed fresh floral arrangements are shared throughout the community. Gardening activities include working in raised beds where residents can plant and tend their own gardens. Residents also have the opportunity to grow vegetables and donate them to the Chester County Food Bank. To help our program flourish, consider a donation today.
Staff Appreciation Fund
The quality care provided by our compassionate staff is at the heart of Barclay Friends. We often hear from residents and families that it is our staff who make being part of the Barclay Friends family a comforting experience. If you would like to express your appreciation to staff, please consider a donation to the Staff Appreciation Fund today.
Barclay Friends truly is the best home away from home for Mom.
The D’Agostino Family
Giving Options
Honor and Memorial Gifts
Donate in honor or in memory of someone special. Many families use the following language to share with loved ones:
“In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to Barclay Friends.
Gifts may be made online at www.bf.kendal.org or mailed to 700 North Franklin Street, West Chester, PA 19380.”
Securities & Gifts From an IRA
A gift in the form of publicly-traded securities allows for the possibility of an immediate federal income tax deduction. Gifts of long-term appreciated securities may offer additional benefits.
Did you know that if you’re 70 ½ or older and own an individual retirement account (IRA) you can make a gift directly from your IRA to a qualified nonprofit organization? A charitable distribution directly from an IRA is not counted as taxable income, and it satisfies the required minimum distributions beginning at 70 ½. You can distribute up to $100,000 through an IRA charitable rollover, or qualified charitable distribution, each year. Gifts made this way can reduce your tax burden and may positively affect your tax bracket.
Planned Giving
Planned gifts include bequests through your will, the designation of Barclay Friends as a beneficiary on a life insurance policy or retirement account or a charitable gift annuity. All these gifts are structured to meet your specific financial objectives while also benefiting Barclay Friends. These gifts can offer significant advantages of favorable income, as well as savings on capital gains and estate taxes. These options allow you to transfer cash real estate or other assets – while in some cases retaining an income from the assets for life.
Bequests
Bequests are not just for the wealthy. Anyone can make an extraordinary gift that can help provide for the financial future of Barclay Friends. Planned gifts are often thought of as leaving a legacy that benefits not only you and your family, but also the future of our community.
Include Barclay Friends in your will or a codicil to your will. Flexible and revocable, a bequest allows you to make a gift that costs you nothing during your lifetime.
- Give a percentage of the residue of your estate—the amount left after taxes and expenses are satisfied and specific bequests have been paid. E.g., “I give 25% of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate to Barclay Friends.”
- Give a specific dollar amount or an item of property—e.g. “I give Barclay Friends $25,000” or “I give Barclay Friends 100 shares of IBM stock.”
- Make your bequest contingent—e.g. “I give Barclay Friends $25,000 if my children predecease me.”
Beneficiary Designations
Name Barclay Friends as the beneficiary of your retirement account. This is as simple as contacting your financial institution for a change of beneficiary form for your Individual Retirement Account (IRA), 401(k), or 403(b).
Name Barclay Friends as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy. For many people, life insurance affords a practical means of making a significant gift through a new or paid-up life insurance policy. If you make Barclay Friends the owner of the policy as well as beneficiary, you may receive current income tax benefits.
If you would like more information about giving options, please contact 610-696-5211.