Legacy Giving provides a significant portion of the support NewYork- Presbyterian receives annually.

The quality of care, facilities, clinical research, and staff are supported by these gifts. Legacy gifts enable us to provide the finest compassionate health care available, and maintain state-of-the-art facilities for patient care and clinical research. Your legacy benefits our patients, our medical staff, and our community for generations to come. Legacy Giving is Choosing to make a legacy gift offers numerous an act of healing advantages beyond the impact of the gift itself: that continues into ■ You remain fully in control of your assets until the bequest is realized. the future.

■ Unlike some other forms of giving, you may modify To explore the benefits of Gift Planning for you and your family, When you create a legacy at your bequest at anytime during your life. visit our website at: www.nyp.org/give/plannedgiving NewYork-Presbyterian by making a gift through your will ■ Your gift — no matter the amount — can be fully deducted for the purposes of estate taxes. or living trust, you become part Create a Legacy of Healing of a tradition that symbolizes the ■ Your assets will be distributed according to your wishes. spirit on which the hospital was founded: the belief that the health of tomorrow is created today. For additional information, please complete this reply card and return it to the address Benefits of Membership Suggested Bequest Wording below. All responses are confidential. In addition to the gratification afforded by knowing To make a bequest to NewYork-Presbyterian, we suggest the impact you will have on the future of medicine, the following language: NAME NewYork-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center membership in the Whitney-Harkness Society includes: “I give, devise, and bequeath to NewYork-Presbyterian ADDRESS ■ Invitation to the Whitney-Harkess Society’s annual Fund, Inc., a corporation created under the New York State What began with recognition event Not-for-Profit Corporation Law and located in ■ City, New York, (the sum of $___or ___% of my residuary Member access to select health education seminars STATE ZIP estate) to be used for the general corporate purposes of Whitney and Harkness ■ Acknowledgement and recognition in the NewYork- continues because of you. Presbyterian Hospital Annual Report, as well as New York-Presbyterian Hospital as its Board of Trustees PHONE (PLEASE INCLUDE AREA CODE) associated Hospital print and online publications shall determine.” E-MAIL It was the generous gifts of two men, Edward Harkness ■ A subscription to the Whitney-Harkness newsletter (NewYork-Presbyterian Fund, Inc. exclusively supports NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The Tax Identification Please send me information about creating a legacy and Payne Whitney, that provided the land and funds There is no minimum gift requirement and, should you Number for NewYork-Presbyterian Fund, Inc. 13-3160356.) for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital by means of: necessary to build our Hospital. Were it not for their choose, your membership may be anonymous. belief in the importance of leveraging New York’s A gift through my will or living trust outstanding medical schools for the benefit of the Questions? A gift that pays life income community, and their willingness to give selflessly, we Please contact us. We would be pleased to consult with A gift from my IRA, Keogh, or other retirement plan would not be the hospital we are today. Today, their you and/or your advisors, in confidence and with no A gift of real estate legacy lives on through the Whitney-Harkness Society, a obligation, about making a bequest to support I have included NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital symbol of the values that make our work possible. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. For additional in my estate or financial plans. (Please describe or information about bequests or any other planned gifts enclose a copy of the relevant document so that we Inclusion in the Whitney-Harkness Society is one of the please contact: can properly thank you.) benefits of making a legacy gift to NewYork-Presbyterian. NewYork-Presbyterian/ Nicholas R. Pitaro Return to: Medical Center Director of Planned Giving Nicholas R. Pitaro NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Director of Planned Giving 646-317-7323 NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital [email protected] 525 East 68th Street, Box 123 New York, NY 10065