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Using Czech and Slovak history, the NCSML helps everyone understand how people and cultures can live in harmony. Whether you are passionate about your family’s history and culture, you want to impact your community, or you value education for the next generation, you can make a difference today.
Your year-end gift can impact every part of what we accomplish together. Gifts made by Dec. 31 could provide you a tax benefit, and gifts of any size help prepare the NCSML for an even greater future.
Read President and CEO Cecilia Rokusek’s year-end letter to the NCSML community here.
What will be your legacy?
What inspires you? What are you passionate about?
Passions shape your life; they shape the decisions you make and affect how you feel about those decisions. The people, causes, and organizations that are important to you receive your passionate support.
Legacy Society members have made provisions to support the NCSML through planned gifts — wills, trusts, or estate plans.
Through the passionate support of its Legacy Society members, the NCSML is able to fulfill its mission to inspire people across the country to connect to Czech and Slovak history and culture, to make sure the stories of these people are not lost in time. Legacy Society members insure that the NCSML’s work will be relevant and vibrant today as well as tomorrow.
Planned gifts can provide financial security for your family now and support the NCSML’s mission in the future. Most planned gifts offer a form of estate charitable tax deduction, and can be given as an unrestricted or designated gift. Our development officers can work with you and your financial advisors to identify the best plan for you.
The most familiar planned giving options include:
- Wills and Bequests: These are the easiest and most common legacy gifts, and usually involve naming the NCSML as a beneficiary in your will or trust. Types of bequests may include a specific amount or a specific asset, a percentage of your estate or trust, or the balance of your estate or trust after gifts to other beneficiaries have been made.
- Charitable Remainder Trust: A legal trust is created providing you and/or your loved one(s) a regular fixed payment for a specified period of time or for life. Income, capital gains, and/or estates taxes can be reduced or eliminated. At the conclusion of the period of time, or upon your death, the remaining assets within the trust transfer to the NCSML.
- Charitable Gift Annuity: This is similar to Charitable Trusts, but simpler. With a charitable gift annuity, you transfer cash or marketable securities to the NCSML and, in return, the NCSML issues an annuity contract to pay a fixed payment for life to you and/or your beneficiary. Upon your or your beneficiary’s death, the fund transfers to benefit the NCSML.
- Gifts of Life Insurance: There are a number of ways to utilize life insurance as a planned giving tool. The most common include, but are not limited to, donating a policy’s accumulated cash value, listing the NCSML as a beneficiary, or assigning ownership of a policy listing the NCSML as that policy’s beneficiary.
- Gifts of Appreciated Stock: Making a gift of appreciated securities can provide you with significant tax benefits. One benefit is that you do not pay the capital gains tax on the appreciation that otherwise would have been required had you first sold the stock and then made a cash gift.
Share your passion. Inspire others. Create your legacy.
You can notify the NCSML of your intentions or further discuss these and other planned giving options by calling 319-362-8500 or emailing development@ncsml.org with your inquiry.
Any planned gift qualifies you for membership in the NCSML’s Legacy Society. Enrolling in the Legacy Society is easy. It simply requires the completion of a form indicating that you have made provisions in your estate to benefit the NCSML. The form is a formal notification of your intentions for NCSML records; it is not legally binding and can be revoked at any time. You can find this form on the NCSML website at www.NCSML.org, or we can send you a hard copy via mail or an electronic version via email.
As a member of the Legacy Society, you will receive a recognition gift, and your name will be included on the NCSML’s Legacy Society Wall of Recognition and website. You will also receive member updates and invitations to annual donor appreciation events. If you wish your identity and/or your intentions to remain anonymous, the NCSML will honor this request.
Join the Legacy Society today to insure that the museum’s work impacts the future. Share your passion and inspire others to connect with these stories.
Download for more information or enrollment:
Planned Giving Info Legacy Society EnrollmentLegacy Society Members 2018
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John (’17) and Joyce Anderson
Daniel Baldwin
Henrietta S. Bartizal * (’08)
Ed Baum
Robert Baumruk * (’13)
LeeAnn Benischek *
Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret *
Francis F. (’99) & Mary N. Bozanek (’16)
Terry L. Brosh *
Joanne * and Ernie Buresh *
Sandra J. Buresh * (’12)
Velma M. Burian (’09)
Marie Cada (’12)
Blanche Cuhel (’13)
Thomas and Elizabeth DeBoom
George L. * (’13) and Evelyn M. Dlask (’16)*
Joan Elliott-Green (’16)
Joyce Faltis
David and Joann Faribault
Veronica Hall Frost *
Donald * and Irene Hamous *
Margaret Haupt (’16)
Robert Hejkal
Paula Hughart
Alicia Dee Dvorak Jackson
Marie Jadrnicek (’13)
James and Sheri Jandik
Eleanor Jewett (’06)
Ray Jiruska (’07)
Kenneth L. * (’15) and Mildred M. Johnson * (’06)
Eugene and Beverly Kadlec
Kristine Kadlec
George * (’06) and Louise Kalous * (’12)
Robert F. and Janis L. Kazimour
Marianne Klinsky (’13)
Irene B. Konecny *
Anthony * and Cathy Korvas *
Edwin T. Kral (’07)
Grace Helen Krob (’09)
Margaret Rae Krska (’14)
John Albert Kuba *
David Kubicek
Theodore and Margaret Kubicek
Robert * and Caroline Kucharski * (’10)
Mary Jo Langer (’13)
Dr. Vera Laska * (’05)
Jirina M. Lavine (’15)
Roger (’00) and Thea Leslie
Doris S. Looney (’07)
George Machacek * (’07)
Gene * and Sharon Machacek *
James and Carolyn McAuliffe
Janelle Votroubek McClain
Ernest Melichar
Guenter (’13) and Donna Merkle
Ann Michaels
Wallace * (’17) and Betty Milden * (’10)
Frank * and Cheryle Mitvalsky *
Leo * (’11) and Irma Modracek * (’08)
Isabel D. Morrison *
Gail and Dennis Naughton
George J. (Max) Naxera, Jr. * (’10)
Janice (’17) and Victor Naxera
Duane M. and Kay Nesetril
Jerry Netolicky (’12)
Margaret Netolicky (’15)
Frank W. Novotny * (’04)
Deborah O’Connor
Milo Pecina (’06)
Robert Petrik
Henrietta Bartizal Pons
Marc-Andre Pons
Jack * and Jackie Roland * (’09)
Gary R. Rozek
Carolyn Shimek (’11)
William D. Severa
Kyle Skogman
Ray Snitil
Merle Sykora
Leni Lee Stastny (’13)
Ben H. Thieme *
Robert and Rita Tomanek
Edward J * (’05) and Carol Vavra *
Dorothy Votroubek
Doug and Lori Wenzel
Jason and Leslie Wright
Gary Zabokrtsky
Leora E. Zahorik *
Anna M. * and Jerome Zajíc *
Arlston Joseph (A.J.) * (’10) and
Marge Ziskovsky *
*Denotes Charter Member
President’s Society
The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is grateful for the support of its annual giving society members. President’s Society members support the NCSML’s ambitious programming, world-class exhibitions, and educational initiatives.
The President’s Society honors those individuals who give $1,000 or more annually to support the mission and programs of the NCSML. Members of the President’s Society will be invited to attend the annual President’s Dinner scheduled in the spring of each year.
This Society is the museum’s chance to recognize and show appreciation for the members and donors who support the NCSML at this highest levels. The Society offers unique benefits above and beyond those of the average donor or member, and our hope is that Society members find this society meaningful and informative.
Download Gift/Pledge FormPresident’s Society Members 2017
The Honorable Madeleine Albright
Bruce and Shirley Alexander
Joyce and John Anderson
Robert D. Becker and Diane Handler
Raymond Capek
Terri Christoffersen
Tom and Beth DeBoom
Mary Ann and William Dilla
Mary Donohue
George and Beth Drost
Carey Downs Gibson and Terry Gibson
Don and Irene Hamous
Thomas and Mary Hansen
Thomas Hosmanek
James and Sheri Jandik
Paul Jasa
Rita Jelinek
Rod Jiruska
David Jiruska
Eugene and Bev Kadlec
Thomas and Le Ann Kadlec
Kim Kazimour
Anthony and Cathy Korvas
John and Wende Kotouc
Judith Lovaas
Milan Maliarik
Pat and Mary Kay McGrath
Kaye Drahozal
DeeAnn Drahozal
Ernest and Rose Marie Melichar
Steven Michalicek
Frank and Cheryle Mitvalsky
Gail and Dennis Naughton
Vic Naxera
Duane and Kay Nesetril
Scott and Penny Olson
Sue Plotz Olson and Ron Olson
Chuck and Mary Ann Peters
Robert Petrik
Stanley Pidima
Richard and Barbara Pivnicka
Henrietta Pons
Marc-Andre Pons
Margaret Probasco
Gary and Cathy Rozek
Col. Joseph D. Rozek
Donald and Barbara Schmitz
Deborah Sedlacek
Michael Seng
Kyle and Susan Skogman
John and Dyan Smith
Sally and Richard Spacek May
Galen and Rebecca Stahle
Tom and Amy Stanczyk
R Vladimir Steffel
Ludvik and Katherine Svoboda
Merle Sykora
Lisa Winterberg and Terry Tesar
Joan Thaler
Robert and Rita Tomanek
Randy Ramlo
Lida Urbanek
Carol Vavra
Jan and Marica Vilcek
Richard and Marilyn Vitek
Doug and Lori S. Wenzel
Peter and Cynthia Winkler
Marge Ziskovsky