What type of charitable gift makes the most sense for you?
We will work with you to figure out the gift plan that meets your needs and helps the world’s poorest women attain economic self-sufficiency. Many of our supporters find the Goals & Benefits chart very helpful. However, the easiest way to get the information you need to understand your choices is to contact us.

Gift Planning can provide solutions to real life problems,such as:
Would you like to sell real estate or stock that has grown in value, but are discouraged by the amount of capital gains tax you would have to pay? - Donate appreciated stock or all or a portion of the real estate, instead of using cash for your gift. The income tax deduction is for the current value of the stock or real estate, and you pay no capital gains tax on the difference between what you paid for the asset and what it is worth today.
Are you looking for a way to plan your legacy without having to pay your attorney to change your will? There is a very simple cost-free way to make your legacy an end to chronic hunger – name Freedom from Hunger a beneficiary of your retirement plan or life insurance policy.
Are you “sick and tired” of managing your rental property or ready to get off the “stock market roller coaster”? You can receive the income earned on the amount of your gift for the rest of your life – Join Freedom from Hunger’s Pooled Income Fund, or find out if a remainder unitrust or remainder annuity trust makes sense for you. Whichever one you chose, the amount left over supports microfinance programs for the world’s poorest women.
Are you concerned about the amount of inheritance taxes that your family will have to pay? You can be a philanthropic role model for your children and grandchildren and provide an appropriate inheritance for your heirs – we can show you how a charitable lead trust provides microfinance and health protection services to the world’s poorest women today, while saving inheritance taxes and providing appropriate distributions to your heirs in the future

Your passion for helping the very poor attain economic self-sufficiency and ending their own hunger – for good – will be permanently memorialized by i

Your passion for helping the very poor attain economic self-sufficiency and ending their own hunger – for good – will be permanently memorialized by including Freedom from Hunger in your estate plan. It’s very simple to continue your support for women and their families in developing countries by making a bequest in your Will or Living Trust, or by naming Freedom from Hunger as the beneficiary of your retirement plan, life insurance policy, bank account, or mutual fund

If you’re interested in minimizing the out-of-pocket cost of your gift, and maximizing tax savings, there are a variety of choices for you to consider that help you while you help others.

Workplace Giving
Whether it's prompted by the annual workplace giving campaign or it's just something you've always meant to do, you may want to take advantage of a special benefit offered by many employers: giving through payroll deduction. Federal employees have a special opportunity to designate a charity through the annual Combined Federal Campaign.
Payroll deduction is one of the easiest ways to support your favorite cause. You can designate exactly how much you want to give and choose the organization you wish to support. The rest is done automatically…until you say it's time to stop.
Freedom from Hunger participates in workplace giving through Global Impact, which represents more than 50 of the most respected U.S.-based international charities in workplace giving campaigns across the nation. Global Impact touches more than 400 million lives worldwide through disaster relief, education, health training and economic programs that promote self-sufficiency.
When filling out your workplace giving form, use code #10731 or simply Freedom from Hunger, at 1644 DaVinci Court, Davis, California, 95618.
And thank you for the support!

How We Make a Difference
No handout can accomplish as much as a good self-help program. We partner with hard-working poor women and in-country organizations to implement proven programs that address the causes of poverty, ill health and hunger. Our sustainable approach ensures that the progress we make together today will build into the future-and help more and more families.
As the New Year approaches, think of the mothers, the children, and families who could be thanking you. Donate to Freedom from Hunger.

As the year ends, Freedom from Hunger would like to offer you the opportunity to give a life-changing gift to women in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Your tax-deductible donation will help us bring self-help solutions to poor women and children living on a $1 a day or less --
Our Credit with Education program enables women to feed their children, improve their families’ health and walk the path to self-reliance. We combine health and nutrition education with cash credit to build home-based businesses. Equipped with these powerful resources-provided by people who care -- women are leading their families toward a brighter future.

You can donate your car to a wide range of charity organizations, but picking the most representative ones requires getting some previous information. So before actually donating your car, make sure you get some relevant info about the charity organization, its purposes, projects and usage of your car. You might find out that there are various organizations that have different goals and you will probably find, among them, a great cause and possibility to donate your car to something meaningful. Even more, make sure that your car is going to go to an eligible organization that is serious in its acts and has valid previous work. In order to be sure, speaking directly with the charity agents is the safest way to go. In fact, the IRS requests that the donors are aware of the type of the fundraiser society they choose. When talking to the charity representatives, the most important information regards the exact usage of your car, if it will be sold, fixed up, offered to the less fortunate people and so on. Besides these, you should check up if the charity organization is qualified and in order to know that for sure, you can review the organization’s state registrations and financial situations, administrative costs and charitable programs.
Charitable donations and car evaluations
Another important thing before donating your car is evaluating it in a correct way. There are various guides on the market that offer elaborate instructions, in order to establish the valid value of your car, depending on its general condition, accessories, age and mileage. After making sure that you selected the correct charitable organization and the optimum evaluation, you should be aware of the fact that you are required to complete and attach an IRS form to your tax return, in case you are claiming a car donation that values 500 $ or above.
Donating a used car to charity is a great solution if you are planning to purchase a new car or if you are simply willing to contribute to acharitable activity. Knowing and following some steps before the actual car donation avoids further worries, as it makes the process a safe and fulfilling one.
Are there any hidden facts about used car donation that I should be aware of?
First of all, not every used car donation programs are functioning legally. Before you make your used car donation, you should check with the IRS if the charity is a non-profit organization listed under paragraph 501 (c) (3) in the IRS Publication 78.
Secondly, check out if the used car donation program is run in-house by the charity itself or by a third party. If a third party is operating the used car donation program, you should ask what percent of the profit made by selling the donated cars actually goes to the charity. Often,third-party operated used car donation programs produce small amounts of money for the charity. Smaller charities do not afford the costs of transportation and storage for the donated cars, not to mention the costs involved in charity auctions. This is the main reason why charities accept to have their used car donation programs run buy third-party brokers.