Memorializing Someone

Gifts to the Louisiana Research Collection are a wonderful way to preserve someone's memory.

While gifts in honor of someone can be of several types (bequests made through a will; deferred gifts that provide you or others with a life income and then benefit the library; or outright gifts, such as cash or marketable securities) one of the more common ways to permanently remember someone is by creating an endowed fund.

An endowed fund keeps the principal intact and uses only the income. We can establish a new endowed fund for a minimum of $25,000 in your name or the name of someone you wish to memorialize. Friends or family who wish to remember a loved one can then make additional donations to the fund.

LaRC has other naming opportunities available in addition to endowed funds.

Two specific goals are a LaRC named directorship ("The Jill Jones Director of the Louisiana Research Collection") and a named department ("The John Jones Center for Louisiana Research"). Either would be a wonderful way to share one's commitment to supporting scholarship and preserving our past.

Tulane's Office of Planned Gifts will be happy to discuss such gifts with you. Please contact their office to learn more.

Tulane University Office of Planned Gifts 504-862-8577 or toll free (800) 999-0181 fax (504) 862-8570