A provision in your will or living trust that directs a gift from your estate to CED is called a bequest. A charitable bequest may allow you to make a more generous gift than your lifetime resources would allow. If your estate is subject to estate tax, a bequest could reduce or eliminate your estate tax liability.

There are many ways to make a bequest: you can arrange to give CED a percentage of your estate or residuary estate, a contingent gift, a specific amount of money, or a specific piece of property. Percentage gifts will keep your gift in proportion to other gifts for family and friends as your estate grows or declines. Residual and contingent bequests provide first for your family, and then, if circumstances permit, for the University.

The following suggested bequest language can be used in your will or living trust. You may wish to provide this language, as well as our contact information, to your attorney.

Suggested bequest language:

I give _________* to the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, FOUNDATION to support the College of Environmental Design _________ (e.g., discretionary fund, undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, faculty chair or research) on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.

*For example, ____ percentage (or all) of my estate, or ____ percentage (or all) of the residue of my estate, or $____.