Live On: Build Your Jewish Legacy

Live On: Build Your Jewish Legacy was so successful that Rose Community Foundation offered participating grantees the opportunity to apply for two more years of support for 2008 to 2010. There are 18 organizations participating in this initiative.

Between 2005 and 2007, Live On agencies, schools and synagogues secured 320 bequests and other planned gifts. The estimated value of these estate gifts is $21 million. In addition, during those two years Live On organizations received nearly $1 million in paid bequests. Donors responded generously to the hard work of staff and volunteer solicitors. Together they are securing the future of the organizations they love by leaving the legacy of an endowment gift.

Live On 2008-2010 has added these goals to help grantee leadership teams:

• Continue stewarding legacy donors secured in the past two years.
  
• Cultivate and solicit new donors.
• Institutionalize bequest solicitation and stewardship of bequest donors.
• Secure full board engagement in giving and stewarding bequests.