When you choose to give to Bicycle Colorado via planned giving, you invest your legacy in a shared vision of a Colorado where everyone can ride safely. Your generous support of the movement will make Colorado a better place to live and ride.
At Bicycle Colorado, we’re grateful for every gift we receive—no matter the size—but we understand that not everyone can make a substantial gift today. Planned giving allows you to contribute to causes you care about, often in a more substantial way than you might be able to during your lifetime. Planned giving offers tax benefits and you may enjoy other financial benefits—all while helping to make bicycling safer and more accessible in Colorado for years to come. Thank you for considering this generous way of giving.
Planned giving via a beneficiary designation provides increased flexibility by using:
Setting up a beneficiary designation is quite simple. In fact, it only takes three simple steps to make this type of gift. If you are interested in designating Bicycle Colorado as a beneficiary of your estate, these instructions will help you get started:
If you have included Bicycle Colorado in your estate plans, let us know. We would like to thank you for your generous commitment to the future of better biking in Colorado.
Consider naming Bicycle Colorado as a beneficiary, or a contingent (secondary) beneficiary, in your retirement account. Although most of us plan to leave our assets to our family, perhaps they would be supportive of you leaving a small percentage of your IRA, 401k, or 403b to continue the good work we do. This is easily accomplished through a beneficiary designation form that can be downloaded from your Retirement Plan custodian and can easily be updated if you change your mind.
I finally got to a point in my life where I was thinking about my own planning. Where did I want my assets to go at the end of my life? What did I want my personal legacy to be? … In considering my legacy, I thought about the nonprofit organizations that have been most meaningful to me in my life. Bicycle Colorado was among the organizations on that fairly short list.”
