Other Ways to Give

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Hill-Stead welcomes gifts to the Annual Fund year-round. Annual Fund gifts are fully tax-deductible and are put to immediate use, funding Hill-Stead’s priority plans and needs.

Hill-Stead CARES

Don’t miss the opportunity to make a cash gift in 2020! Your gift will have a greater impact for both you and Hill-Stead as the CARES Act’s time-limited tax provisions come to a close in 2020. Learn More

Annual Fund

Donors supporting Hill-Stead Museum with gifts to our Annual Fund help support education and the arts, and provide for our future.

Matching Gifts

Many corporations offer matching gift programs to their employees, retirees and board members. Check your employer’s website to learn more about your company’s matching gift program. You may be able to double your contribution.

Donor Advised Fund

A Donor Advised Fund (DAF) is a type of giving program administered by a third party (such as Bank of America Charitable, Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, etc.). It allows you to combine the most favorable tax benefits with the flexibility to easily support your favorite non-profits, and is created for the purpose of managing charitable donations on behalf of an organization, family or individual. Learn more

Include Hill-Stead Museum in your Estate Plans

Including Hill-Stead Museum in your estate plan is a wonderful way to make a well-considered and enduring gift. Individuals who have included Hill-Stead Museum in their estate plans become part of The Legacy Society.

For more information, contact Kathanne Wray (860.677.4787 x111 or wrayk@hillstead.org).
[expand title=”Make a Tribute Gift”] Making a gift to Hill-Stead is a lovely way to honor or memorialize a friend or loved one. Please enclose a note with your gift specifying whom to honor, and include contact information for those you would like to have notified of your gift.

Making a gift to Hill-Stead is a lovely way to honor or memorialize a friend or loved one. Please enclose a note with your gift specifying whom to honor, and include contact information for those you would like to have notified of your gift.

Please send to:
Development Department
Hill-Stead Museum,
35 Mountain Road,
Farmington, CT 06032.

If you would like to discuss your contribution in more detail, please do not hesitate to contact Development staff at 860.677.4787 ext. 181.[/expand] [expand title=”Donate to Poetry Programs”] Hill-Stead Museum welcomes support for the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival all year long. Make sure this wonderful tradition of poetry and music remains a high point of each Hill-Stead summer.

Phyllis Joffe Memorial Poetry Fund

DONATE TO THE PHYLLIS JOFFE MEMORIAL POETRY FUND

Established by Sara Niego, daughter of the late Phyllis Joffe, the Phyllis Joffe Memorial Poetry Fund has provided support for the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival since 2010. The fund has been instrumental in helping the museum to present ground-breaking performances and nurture emerging poets. For more information, contact Megan Olver, Senior Manager of Administration (olverm@hillstead.org or 860.677.4787 x181)
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Sharon Stotz Object Conservation Fund

DONATE TO THE SHARON STOTZ OBJECT CONSERVATION FUND

At the museum’s 2013 Annual Meeting, it was announced that in lieu of a gift in honor of her 40 years of service to Hill-Stead, Sharon Stotz suggested that a fund be established to benefit the Museum’s ongoing conservation needs.  Sharon launched this fund with a generous contribution, and to date, many have joined her in helping to preserve the beautiful objects in our collection so that they may be enjoyed by visitors of all ages for years to come.  For more information please contact the Development Staff at  860.677.4787 ext. 181.[/expand] [expand title=”Donate to Save the Stone Walls”]

DONATE TO SAVE THE STONE WALLS

Hill-Stead’s landscape is defined by its iconic stone walls, built from area basalt and trap rock, and stones from the walls of farms that had previously been on the property. We have recently learned that a part of the stone wall surrounding the sunken garden will soon be in need of some critical care. This part of the wall must be rebuilt, and we anticipate that this repair will cost $35,000.  Every gift will make a difference and be used specifically to support the stone wall restoration.[/expand]

 

Photograph by Deborah Key.

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