In addition to knowing that you are helping to conserve stream and lakeshores, a gift to VRC can have other benefits to you!

Kinds of Gifts that You Can Make and their Potential Implications:
Please contact the VRC office, Steve Libby, Executive Director, (802-229-0820), as well as your tax advisor regarding all of the opportunities listed below...

• Cash Gift
  Make a cash gift. You can also receive an income tax deduction to the full extent that the law allows. Go to printable mail-in contribution form...
• Honorary Gifts
  Are you searching for the perfect gift for someone special? Consider an Honorary Gift Donation to VRC in the name of a friend or relative to celebrate the holidays, a birthday, anniversary or other special occasion. Please include with your donation the name and address of the person on whose behalf you are making this gift. We will send a beautiful card with splendid photos of VRC protection projects to notify the recipient of your donation. Please also include your name and address so we can acknowledge your contribution. Honorary gifts to VRC may be made by mail, or securely online through Network for Good.
• Memorial Gifts:
  Honor the memory of a friend or loved one who loved Vermont’s waters with a Memorial Gift Donation to VRC. Please include with your donation the name of the person whose memory you wish to honor, as well as any special message you may wish to include with your gift acknowledgement. Memorial gifts to VRC may be made by mail, or securely online through Network for Good.
  
• Appreciated Securities
  Appreciated stock, other securities or property that have increased in value since you purchased or inherited them, can create a capital gains tax when you sell them. Gifts of appreciated securities may provide you with the opportunity to pay no capital gains tax while taking the market value as a charitable deduction. The full market value can be put to work by VRC to conserve more of Vermont’s water-related landscape.
  The VRC maintains several vehicles for receiving such gifts. For details on making such a gift and receiving full acknowledgement for your generosity.
  If you would like to explore the possibility of increasing the value of your contribution (appreciated stock, cash or other item of value), please contact the human resources department at your company to find out if it will match your charitable gift.
• Personal Property
  Before making a gift of personal property such as real estate or another
  item of  significant value, it is essential that you contact your financial advisor and VRC so that it can be determined that the property is one that VRC can accept and that, if so, an appraisal is performed correctly.
  
• A Bequest in Your Will
  If you wish to defer a gift until after your lifetime you may be able to reduce estate taxes and leave a wonderful legacy for the generations that will follow.
• Charitable Remainder Trust
  This gift involves close consultation with our staff and with your financial advisor. Once a charitable remainder trust is established you secure an income for life and avoid market risks.
• Your Time
  The Vermont River Conservancy will need volunteer help increasingly in the future. Volunteering allows you to give to Vermont’s environment and, in return, you share or gain a new skill.
  You can work on your own or with others in the office or in the field.
  You can use your talents or we can train you to use new ones. Please call our office at 802-229-0820 to discuss volunteer opportunities.
  

For more information, please contact us at:

Vermont River Conservancy
29 Main Street, Suite 11
Montpelier, VT05602
802-229-0820
VRC@VermontRiverConservancy.Org

Here are a few examples of volunteer work that we really need help with now.
This List is updated from time to time:

• Easement Monitoring
  The VRC staff will train you in easement monitoring. This is a vital function of a land trust. Map reading, note taking, understanding the conditions of the easement and photography will become second nature to you as you examine one or more parcels.
• Leading or Helping with Field Trips
  Field trips to VRC conserved parcels help members understand the true value of our conservation accomplishments. Field trips involve taking members or prospective members on bird walks, hikes, wildflower and wildlife sign trips, and interpreting the natural history of the landscape. Other important aspects of field trips include teaching photography, teaching painting and observing changes on the parcels that have taken place since previous visits. VRC promotes your field trip and handles registration.
• Land Record Research
  One VRC goal is to piece together and conserve large unfragmented parcels along our waters. We notify contiguous landowners of project parcels to determine their possible interesting conserving their own land. Volunteers gather tax maps, copy deeds of adjacent lands and request grand lists from the town clerks. Apply a skill using GIS to an important task.
• Surveying
  Some surveyors who work for VRC accept high school students and adults to work with them in surveying parcels. This is an invaluable experience for young people considering what careers they would like to pursue.
• Display Board
  VRC is in need of a display board and table that can be taken to public events to feature our accomplishments. We are seeking a creative person or persons who would take on this project.
• Writing
  If you have writing skills that can make words jump off the page, we need your help in preparing press releases, newsletters, and brochures.
• Special Events
  This task is second to none in bringing VRC into contact with the community. Parties are a wonderful way to have fun, build our membership and help people understand what we have accomplished and what we aspire to do. If you have a skill in organizing parties, you can be a tremendous asset to VRC and to conserving special places in Vermont’s environment. You will also help build an understanding for land conservation in your community.
• The Mailing Team
  When you receive a letter from VRC be assured that it was not mass-produced by a machine. Each name was considered, discussed, the letter written on by an acquaintance and finally committed to the post. Of the thousands of individuals on our list we now have over 380 members. You count and you know who you are. We appreciate your membership and we are grateful to everyone who faithfully serves on the Mailing Team.

To become involved in any of these activities please contact us at:

Vermont River Conservancy
29 Main Street, Suite 11
Montpelier, VT05602
802-229-0820
VRC@VermontRiverConservancy.Org

“Many hands make work light!”
Join our team and feel really good about it!

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