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Planned Giving

Including Pine Street Inn in your bequest or other estate plans ensures that the issues you care about today will continue to receive your financial support in the future. To remember the homeless men and women in Boston in such an enduring way is quite possibly the most powerful gift that a person can make to help in the fight to end homelessness.

Planned giving also provides donors with a practical, financially attractive way to support Pine Street’s work while offering several added benefits beyond the standard income-tax deduction for a charitable gift. U.S. tax laws are structured to encourage charitable giving, and unlimited amounts can generally be left for charitable purposes free of estate and gift taxes.

If you have remembered Pine Street Inn in your will, trust, life insurance policy, and/or other planned gift, thank you! Please let us know so we may thank you for your kindness and generosity, and know that we are honored to carry forward your legacy of hope for those less fortunate.

We would also be honored to have you join our Tower Society. The Tower Society was established by Pine Street Inn to thank and recognize the generosity of donors who have remembered our guests and tenants in their bequest plans.

The Development office is happy to discuss estate planning options with you, although all arrangements should be made through your attorney or other professional advisor. For further information about making a planned gift to Pine Street Inn, please call Alicia Ianiere, Vice President for Development & External Affairs, at 617.892.9177 or email alicia.ianiere@pinestreetinn.org.


Sample bequest language


Outright Bequest for General Needs.

An outright bequest is the simplest way to make a gift through your will. If you intend to make an outright bequest of cash, securities, or other property by designating a specific dollar amount, a particular asset, or a fixed percentage of your estate to Pine Street Inn to be used for general purposes: "I give, devise, and bequeath to Pine Street Inn, Boston Massachusetts, the sum of $________ (or a description of the specific asset)."

Outright Bequest for a Specific Purpose.

If you intend to make an outright bequest for a specific purpose, such as to support Pine Street Inn’s permanent supportive housing program: "I give, devise, and bequeath to Pine Street Inn, Boston Massachusetts, the sum of $_______ (or a description of the specific asset), for the benefit of Pine Street Inn to be used for the following purpose: (state the purpose) (e.g., the permanent supportive housing program.)

Residuary Bequest.

After your loved ones and beneficiaries receive a designated portion of your estate, some or all of the remainder of the estate would be left to Pine Street Inn: "All the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, I give to Pine Street Inn, Boston, Massachusetts."

Thank you!