donations
The GPWHP welcomes contributions from everyone interested in supporting our mission. Since we are a 501c3 non-profit charitable corporation, your contributions are tax deductible under the IRS rules.
Your donations will help preserve the history of Welsh settle- ments all across the North American prairie lands. The Great Plains Welsh Heritage & Culture Centre, Inc. is the only repository of this heritage. Please contribute generously to help preserve the memories of our brave ancestors who left their homeland, endured a hazardous ocean voyage, and broke the prairie, so that we, their descendants, could have a better life!
The GPWHP Endowmnet Trust has been established to provide a perpetual income for the parent GPWHP. It has been formed as a Supporting Organization to the GPWHP and is permanently required to support only the parent organization. It operates under the GPWHP 501c3 non-profit status.
Initial Trustess of the Endowment Trust are Dr. Berwyn E. Jones, PhD of Lincoln, Mr. Robert Minish, esq. of Minneapolis, Minnestoa, Dr.Ada Mae Lewis, PhD of Ames, Iowa, Mr. Kenneth R. Jones, Jr., retired insurance executive of Lincoln, Nebraska and Mr. Jeffery Nelson, businessman and community activist in Wymore, Nebraska.
The endowment is constrained to pay the GPWHP a minimum the lesser of the annual income of the fund or 8% of fair market value of the endowment. Additional funds may be paid only by majority vote of the Trustees, with those who are also Trustees of the GPWHP abstaining. At present that would require an unanimous vote of the remaining Trustees.
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You may designate your gift to be used for Current Expenses (Some one has to pay the bills of operation) |
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As a Memorial to a beloved ancestor or friend (Many Welsh American families have designated the GPWHP as the beneficiary of funeral memorial gifts after the death of a loved one) |
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Endowment Funds (These gifts will be placed in a trust, from which we are authorized to spend only the income. The principal is preserved except in case of extreme circumstance. As the endowment grows, it will provide us with a steady income to pursue our goals) |
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Special Memorial Gifts (For uses such as garden benches, museum exhibits, that bear the loved one's name) |
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We especially urge all of our committed members and friends to add a bequest to the GPWHP in their wills. Often, we are able to make more sizable gifts as bequests than during our lifetimes, while we still need our resources. Please notify us when you have done this, so will be aware of the forthcoming gift) If each of you who is interested in the GPWHP would bequeath the Project just 10% of our estates, we would ensure that the Project would prosper for generations to come and would continue to honor our Welsh pioneer ancestors. |
Now the really hard work begins for the GPWHP and we are asking for your help. So that Wymore may have a truly first-class chronicle of its story and the Welsh settlement of the Great Plains, we wish to create more modern, interactive museum exhibits.
We hope you
will join us by making a donation in the highest amount your family budget
can afford. Your name will be added to the list of 275 donors who have already contributed. Remember donations
are tax deductible. Fed. ID #47-0844022
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