Support
Ways to Give
Outright Gifts
Gifts of Securities
Gifts of Property
Planned Gifts
Matching Gifts
Gift Pledges
There are many creative ways to make a gift to the Vermont Studio Center. Gifts to the VSC Fellowship Fund allow our artistic juries to offer full fellowships to the most promising artists and writers in VSC’s applicant pool. Directed gifts allow you to designate your gift to artists and writers from a particular region, school, or artistic medium. Your annual gifts can be added to funds that already exist for international artists, cancer survivors, artists with disabilities, and more.
You also have the option of designating your gift for current use or for endowment. Current-use gifts provide funds and flexibility over the short term, whereas endowment gifts provide security over the long term by expanding the Center’s permanent financial base and creating a predictable source of future income for all aspects of our arts program.
Types of Gifts
Gifts of every size and shape keep our community thriving year after year. If you would like to make your donation by check, please send it to:
The Vermont Studio Center
P.O. Box 613
Johnson, VT 05656
You may also choose to contact us at 802-635-2727 and make a donation by credit card, either by making a one-time gift or by establishing a recurring charge to your account.
Gifts of appreciated securities, stocks, and bonds also provide considerable tax advantages when transferred to VSC before they are sold. If you have held your securities for more than one year, you may find that your gift will provide a twofold tax benefit, creating an income-tax deduction as well as helping avoid the capital-gains tax that would have been due on their sale.
If you wish to transfer stocks from a broker’s account, please have your broker call the VSC Development Office (link to development@vermontstudiocenter.org) for further details and information.
If you wish to make a gift of physical securities on hand, physical stock certificates may be sent by certified mail or overnight express:
Vermont Studio Center
c/o Jill Leininger, Development Director
80 Pearl Street
Johnson, VT 05656
Your endorsement on the back of the certificate(s) should be exactly as stated on the face of the certificate(s) and no other blanks are to be filled in.
Gifts of real estate — including personal residences, second homes, income property, and vacant land — offer a wide variety of tax and other benefits. Whereas most people give their entire interest away, it is also possible to give only a portion of the property (an undivided percentage interest) while retaining the rest for other purposes.
Gifts of personal property — including rare books, works of art, valuable collectibles, and tangible items of demonstrable value — in some cases may enable you to make a significant gift to support VSC with outstanding tax benefits to you.
Planned Gifts
To learn about deferred or planned gifts, including bequests, life-income plans, and other options for your estate — and for information about increasing your income, earning valuable income-tax deductions, and reducing your estate taxes — please contact Jill Leininger jill@vermontstudiocenter.org, Director of Development, (802) 635-2727.
Matching Gift Programs
An easy way to double or even triple your donation to VSC is to find out if your company has a matching gift program. Such programs typically match all or a percentage of employee contributions to charitable organizations, making the employer a partner in employees’ personal philanthropy. Simply obtain a matching gift form from your employer’s personnel office, fill it out, and provide it to us with your contribution.
Gift Pledges
VSC welcomes your gift through a pledge — a formal statement of intention to make a gift to the Studio Center. With a pledge, you may complete your gift by making regular payments over time, allowing you to give more generously than you originally may have considered. What is more, each payment on your pledge is eligible for an income-tax charitable deduction.
