Giving Through Your Will

A will is perhaps the easiest and most effective means to ensure that you fully provide for your family and that your assets are distributed as you wish. Gifts both large and small have been important to LSS since its founding.

Many faithful friends have remembered LSS in their will while providing for their family. Gifts in this manner are faithfully preserved in the LSS Foundation and provide a major source of LSS's funding each year. When your gift is received, the LSS Foundation will carefully invest it, and each year thereafter grant 5 percent of the earnings to the ministry of LSS of South Dakota. A gift through your will provides continuing support of the ongoing work of LSS.

If you choose to make a gift through your will to LSS, the following language will be helpful to you and your attorney.

"I give, bequeath and devise _____% of my estate [or $_____] to Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota."

When making a gift to LSS of South Dakota through your will, please consult your legal and tax advisors.

A gift to LSS through your will has several advantages:

Charitable gifts made through your will are 100 percent
deductible for estate tax purposes.
A charitable gift may place your estate in a lower tax
bracket.
Once you notify LSS of South Dakota of your gift intention, you qualify for membership in our LSS Foundation Founders Family.

Resource Development
Heidi Schultz, Vice President, Resource Development
705 East 41st Street, Suite 200
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
1-605-357-0103
1-800-568-2401 Ext. 103
Fax: 1-605-357-0140
Email: Heidi Schultz