Incessantly Requested Questions: Legacy Giving with the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society

November is “Make a Will” month and a time we frequently obtain inquiries from kind-hearted animal lovers who need to know extra about how they will make a distinction within the lives of animals, even after they’re gone.  

 If you’re contemplating making a legacy present to the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society, we’ve got compiled solutions to often requested inquiries to information you. Listed below are some issues chances are you’ll need to think about in case you are planning on leaving a legacy present in your will to assist animals in want. 

How do I am going about leaving a present in my will? 

First, it’s a good suggestion to speak to your executor so they’re conscious of your intention to depart a legacy present. When making ready your will, make sure that you embody the kind of present you propose to depart (certain amount or residue portion of your property) to the Ontario SPCA. Embody our identify, charitable donation quantity, and any particular directions (applications, areas of curiosity, and many others.) you want to depart.  

For extra details about legacy giving, learn right here. 

What does my donation help? 

Your beneficiant present will help plenty of totally different life-changing initiatives, together with pressing medical look after animals, day-to-day care and enrichment whereas animals wait for his or her eternally households and spay/neuter applications to assist scale back pet overpopulation. It’s going to additionally help caretakers in managing feral cat colonies, enable us to move animals who want houses to areas of the province the place households are ready to undertake, and it’ll make sure that our teaching programs proceed to create a brighter future for animals.  

Whereas we’ve got quite a few applications designed to help and look after animals in want, your charitable bequest might be directed to a selected to a program you want to help. 

Click on right here for extra details about our applications and the help we provide to animals. 

What’s the Ontario SPCA’s authorized identify?

Our authorized identify is the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and/or Ontario SPCA and Humane Society. When leaving a present for the animals in your will, please guarantee to incorporate our identify in your written directions.  

What’s the Ontario SPCA’s charitable donation quantity? 

Our charitable donation quantity is: 88969-1044-RR0002. You will need to embody this quantity in your will, as it’s distinctive to our charity and ensures that your present involves the appropriate place. 

What sort of present can I depart? 

You’ll be able to depart items in any quantity to the Ontario SPCA to assist help animals in want. Items in wills, in any other case generally known as a charitable bequest, can create a long-lasting change that may enhance animal welfare for generations of animals. It may be a certain amount or a portion of the residue of your property.  

As you permit your mark on the welfare and care of animals, you may as well select the precise location on your present. This manner you possibly can select to help a selected animal centre. We’ve 12 animal centre areas throughout Ontario.  

The place can I get extra data? 

Go to ontariospca.ca/how-to-help/leave-a-gift-in-your-will/ for extra data on methods to depart a present in your will.