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To make your gift online, please visit: https://www.hchc.edu/give/give-online/.
Credit cards must be run before midnight on December 31, 2025 to qualify as a 2025 tax-deductible gift.
Please note: Envelopes must be postmarked by December 31, 2025 to qualify as a 2025 deductible gift.
Checks be made payable to: Hellenic College, Inc.
Please mail your check to:
Hellenic College Holy Cross
Office of Institutional Advancement
50 Goddard Avenue
Brookline, MA 02445-7415
For a standard wire transfer or Automated Clearing House Transfer, please provide your bank with the following information:
Make a gift from your IRA through a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) and the transferred amount will be excluded from your taxable income. If you are age 72 or older, this QCD can satisfy all or a portion of your required minimum distribution.
For your gift to be recognized as a QCD:
For your gift to qualify for the current year, instruct your IRA administrator to mail or arrange a direct transfer to Hellenic College Holy Cross (Hellenic College, Inc.) before December 31. Please also authorize your IRA administrator to identify you as the donor.
Hellenic College Holy Cross
Greek Orthodox School of Theology
50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA 02445-7415
Tel: 617-850-1320
advancement@hchc.edu
www.hchc.edu
To have a gift of stock electronically transferred,
If your broker has questions about making an electronic gift of securities, please have your broker contact Kyle Gilbert, Chief Financial Officer, at kgilbert@hchc.edu.
Please Note: It is important that your broker does not sell the securities and send us a check. If the broker does this, the tax advantages of making a gift of appreciated stock may be eliminated.
Financial institutions do not automatically transmit the sender’s name or the purpose of the wire. Without this information, we are often unable to identify or acknowledge your wire properly. Including this information ensures your gift is processed accurately and in a timely manner.
After a wire has been completed transferring securities and/or other gift-related matters, please email: Carolyn Evangeline at cevangeline@hchc.edu and Kyle Gilbert at kgilbert@hchc.edu and include:
Matching gifts are an organization’s way of multiplying the benefits of their employees’ charitable gifts. If you or your spouse works for a company that offers a matching gift program, your gift to Hellenic College Holy Cross could be doubled or even tripled. In most cases, all you need to do is complete a form available through your employer.
Gifts are not automatically matched. You will need to fill out the matching gift form available at your human resources office or complete an online request.
The easiest and most common way of making a planned gift is through a bequest in your will. You can designate a specific amount of money, a percentage of your estate, or a specific asset. Hellenic College Holy Cross could also be named as a contingent beneficiary.
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Gifts such as a charitable gift annuity or a charitable lead trust provide you and/or your designated beneficiary income for life. Upon your passing, HCHC receives the gift.
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Life insurance can be used to make a sizeable gift to Hellenic College Holy Cross.
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You can deed your home, vacation property, or condominium to Hellenic College Holy Cross and retain the right to live in the property and/or receive income from the property for as long as you or your beneficiaries live.
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By naming Hellenic College Holy Cross as the beneficiary of the remainder after your death and/or the death of your spouse, 100 percent of the plan’s benefits would avoid both income and estate taxes.
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An outright gift of appreciated property, such as publicly traded securities or closely held stock, provides an extra tax benefit if you have owned the asset for more than one year.
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Any type of property, including cash, securities, real estate, and works of art and jewelry, among others, may be given to Hellenic College Holy Cross through you will.
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Should you have any questions for the Office of Institutional Advancement, please contact:
Carolyn Evangeline
Phone: (617) 850-1320
Email: cevangeline@hchc.edu