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Making A Gift To Western Oregon University

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The WOU Foundation accepts gifts for any approved program or activity at Western Oregon University.

Outright Gifts.

The most common gifts received by the WOU Foundation are outright gifts. Most frequently these gifts are cash, but the foundation also welcomes gifts of securities, real property, and personal property.

Planned gifts

Planned gifts, including deferred gifts, are arranged during the donor's lifetime, but the principal does not accrue to benefit WOU until later, usually after the donor or named beneficiaries are deceased. Bequests are the most common deferred gifts; others include life insurance policies and life income agreements (gift annuities, unitrusts, annuity trusts, lead trusts, and revocable trusts).

Matching Gifts

Many companies offer matching gift programs to their employees, employee spouses, or retired employees. Contact the personnel office in your company or call WOU's Office of University Advancement at 503-838-8281 to discover if this program is available to you.

Make Out Your Checks To The WOU Foundation

When you make a charitable contribution to Western Oregon University, make out your check to the WOU Foundation. If you wish to restrict your contribution to a particular school, department, program, or special area such as scholarships, faculty development, library, or athletics, list that program on the memo line or in an accompanying letter.

Gifts may be sent to

The WOU Foundation, The Cottage, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR 97361. Or call us at 503-838-8281 to receive more information about giving to WOU.

The Western Oregon University Development Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. It operates on the WOU campus and with university support under the auspices of a 1990 agreement between the foundation, the university, and the Oregon University System. It is managed by a 24-member board of directors composed of members-at-large and representatives from ancillary fund-raising and campus groups.

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