The range
At one end, naming Porter for a percentage of an estate or as a beneficiary of an IRA — no cost now, changeable whenever. At the other, a gift annuity: the donor transfers assets, receives fixed payments for life, and Porter keeps the remainder. The office explains which fits which situation.
Always with your own advisor
The planned-giving office provides sample language and illustrations; it never replaces the donor's attorney or financial advisor, and says so up front.
In and around Porter Falls
The UW–Porter Falls Foundation shares the Depot with admissions, which is deliberate: the people who fund scholarships and the students who receive them use the same front door. Most gifts to Porter are small, local and recurring.
The practical details
Simplest: A bequest in a will or a beneficiary line on a retirement account — a sentence, revocable any time. Income options: Charitable gift annuities and trusts that pay the donor for life, then benefit Porter. Talk to: The Foundation's planned-giving office, alongside the donor's own advisor. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is UW–Porter Falls Foundation & Alumni Relations (Welcome Center at the Depot). Call (715) 555–0280 or email foundation@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.