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Gift Planning

Reunion Giving

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Recognize the impact Swarthmore College has had on your life — and provide extraordinary opportunities for the next generation of Swarthmore thinkers and doers — by making a legacy gift in honor of your reunion. For the 45th reunion and beyond, all documented bequest intentions count toward your class giving!

There are a number of ways to make a reunion legacy gift 

  • Make Swarthmore College a beneficiary in your estate plan (will, trust, individual retirement account, or life insurance policy) .
  • Create a flexible gift annuity, which is an advantageous retirement-planning tool that allows you to support the College and receive income in the future.
  • Use your donor-advised fund to make outright gifts or fulfill multi-year pledges.

Did you know… 

  • You can use your Individual Retirement Account (IRA) to make an outright gift, known as a qualified charitable distribution (QCD), to Swarthmore College? Some of those funds can also be used to create a charitable gift annuity. 
  • Swarthmore can be a beneficiary of your retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, donor-advised funds, or life insurance policies? 


If you have named Swarthmore in your will or trust or as a beneficiary of an account or policy, please let us know so we can thank you for your generosity and recognize you in the James A. Michener Legacy Circle.

Make a gift now to celebrate your reunion or reach out to a member of the Gift Planning team to discuss ways to leave a legacy. 

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