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CREATING A LEGACY

Like your everyday actions, your charitable gifts have an impact on others.

Perhaps you have considered a charitable legacy to continue your philanthropy beyond your lifetime, to have your family remembered, and your philanthropy woven into the lives of others. With a legacy gift, you can.

We invite you to make your philanthropy endure through a planned gift to Open Medicine Foundation and join the Healthy Futures Society.

I’ve had ME/CFS since 1980. OMF's collaboration with researchers and with those who suffer from this disease is amazing! After decades of suffering, we’re finally being taken seriously. I encourage those who can to donate to OMF and this urgently needed research.
Joanne

THE HEALTHY FUTURES SOCIETY

The Healthy Futures Society was established to recognize and thank those individuals who have identified Open Medicine Foundation as the best partner in the creation of a personal legacy through a planned gift. The Healthy Futures Society is our way of acknowledging their commitment to the future of Open Medicine Foundation today.

Gifts of all sizes are appreciated, and there are several ways to structure your gift.

Membership in the Healthy Futures Society serves as an example for others to follow, though if you prefer, we honor any requests for anonymity. Have you already added OMF to your estate plans? Please take a moment to inform us of your wishes, so that we can ensure your plans are honored.

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The  Healthy Futures Society Annual Meeting brings together members for a “State of the Foundation” presentation from CRC researchers.

With permission, Healthy Futures Society members are featured on Open Medicine Foundation’s website and highlighted in our Community Newsletter.

Options for Including Open Medicine Foundation in Your Estate Plan

There are a variety of options for creating your charitable legacy, including ways to help you save on taxes and make your contributions go further.

Consider how these choices best fit your individual needs and goals:

Name Open Medicine Foundation as a beneficiary of your estate. Where there’s a will, there’s a way to honor your personal legacy of compassion.

Example:

Bequeath a specific dollar amount, an asset, a percentage, or the residue of your will or trust to Open Medicine Foundation. Because this portion of your estate is tax deductible, your donation may significantly reduce taxes otherwise payable by your estate.

Retirement Plans and Individual Retirement Accounts offer great tax benefits while you are living. However, at your death, the tax costs of these assets can be immense. One way to save your family and heirs the burden of these costs is to make a charitable contribution using these assets.

 

Examples:

  1. Name Open Medicine Foundation as the beneficiary of your IRA or Retirement Plan so that your heirs will not have to pay the income taxes you have avoided during your lifetime. In addition, your heirs will not have to pay estate taxes on the value of your retirement vehicles. By naming Open Medicine Foundation as the beneficiary of your Retirement Plan or IRA, your family and heirs will avoid this double taxation.

  2. The IRA Charitable Rollover allows individuals age 70½ and older to make direct transfers totaling up to $100,000 per year to 501(c)(3) charities, without having to count the transfers as income for federal income tax purposes.

You may choose to designate Open Medicine Foundation as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy.

Example:

  1. Your existing life insurance policy may be assigned, all or in part, to Open Medicine Foundation. Or, purchase an additional life insurance policy naming Open Medicine Foundation as owner or sole beneficiary of this new policy.

This charitable strategy pays the donor and named beneficiaries income now until the trust matures, when the remainder passes to Open Medicine Foundation. Cash, securities and appreciated real estate are transferred to the trust and a diversified investment portfolio is established to generate income for the donor. The donor receives an income tax deduction for a portion of the assets contributed to the trust and pays no capital gains tax on the transfer.

There are two types of Charitable Remainder Trusts

 

  1. Annuity Trust   You receive stable, predictable income annually based on a fixed percentage of the original assets donated.
  2. Unitrust Trust  You receive income annually that varies based on a fixed percentage of the value of the investments, which are re-valued annually.

One of the most elegant ways to assure that your loved one’s name will be remembered is through a Named Gift to commemorate, memorialize or celebrate a family member or friend either in perpetuity, or over a fixed period of time.

Open Medicine Foundation offers opportunities to honor loved ones by affixing their names to grant programs, making them partners in a Healthy Future, for generations to come. Click here to learn more.

FACILITATING YOUR WISH
TO MAKE A LASTING CONTRIBUTION

Open Medicine Foundation’s staff welcomes the opportunity to meet with you personally in order to understand and facilitate your wishes for the future. We also recommend discussing your wishes with an estate planner or other professional advisor.

To discuss adding Open Medicine Foundation Canada to your estate plans, please contact us at Legacy Gifts, Phone: 650-242-8669

VALUABLE INFORMATION

Legal Name:  Open Medicine Foundation Canada

Charity Registration ID: 74926 5518 RR0001

2987 Baynes Road

Victoria BC V8N 1Y4 Canada

It is an estate planning best practice to include both the legal name and tax identification number in any will or trust documentation.

My wife has been sick with ME for about five years. Like most people with ME/CFS, she cannot work and has given up most things from her previous life. OMF does top-quality and groundbreaking research. They are the best hope for the millions of people who have had their lives upended by ME/CFS.
John
Proteomics
The large-scale study of proteins, which are large, complex molecules that are required for structure, function, and regulation of the human body's tissues and organs.
Microvesicles and viral sequencing
Microvesicles are a type of extracellular vesicle that is released from the cell membrane. Vesicles are small, fluid-filled sacs or vacuoles within the body. Sequencing is a technique used to determine the exact sequence of bases (A, C, G, and T) in a DNA (or viral) molecule.
NMR Metabolomics
NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) is an instrument/tool used to perform metabolic studies, metabolic profiling, and metabolomics in biofluids and tissues for more than 40 years using magnetic fields. There is a very close connection between metabolic measurements and NMR. This connection has flourished because of NMR’s many unique strengths for characterizing complex mixtures’ chemical composition.
Autoantibodies
Antibodies that react with self-molecules and that occur in healthy individuals and are referred to as natural antibodies or autoantibodies.
Extracellular DNA for viral reactivation and Mitochondrial DNA
exDNA (extracellular DNA), exDNA is often secreted actively and is used to perform several tasks, thereby offering an attractive target or tool for biotechnological, medical, environmental, and general microbiological applications. Viruses are intracellular parasites that rely to a significant extent on the host cell for replication. Viral reactivation occurs when an active replication of the viral genome results in a lytic (degradation of the cell) infection characterized by the release of new progeny (descendant) virus particles.
Immune cell profiling
The immune system has many important regulatory roles in disease development and progression. Given the emergence of effective immune therapies, reliable predictors of response are needed. Immune cell profiling determines response by evaluating immune cell populations from treated and untreated samples. For our purposes, we will evaluate the white blood cell response to the viral infection using a process called “Cytof.”
Leukocyte Genomics
A leukocyte is a colorless cell circulating in the blood and body fluids and is involved in counteracting foreign substances and disease. A genome is all genetic material of an organism. Genomics is a biology field focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. Therefore, leukocyte genomics is the study of all genetic material of leukocytes.
Metabolomics
Metabolomics is a way to study metabolism – that is, through measuring amounts of the metabolites (small molecules) produced by our bodies as we convert food into energy and other molecules that our cells need to survive. Metabolomics technology is ‘large-scale,’ meaning that several thousand metabolites can be measured from a single sample of e.g., blood or urine.
Micro RNA
Cells use Micro RNA to control whether a particular gene is making too much, too little or the normal amount of its protein at a particular time.