A Nine Network Gift Annuity Can Offer Big Financial Benefits for You... and a Significant Contribution to Our Region
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One-Life Example: What one person can do. A Nine Network Gift Annuity Our founders were visionaries. Mrs. Edwards is 85 years old and is interested in helping the Nine Network We all want to make a positive difference in the can offer big financial benefits They believed education was essential to a healthy community and hoped continue its quality educational and entertainment programs. At the same time lives of others. But sometimes we wonder what television could bring opportunities for learning into every home. she would like to have a guaranteed lifetime income. Mrs. Edwards contributes one person can do. for you... and a significant $10,000 to the Nine Network’s Gift Annuity Program and is entitled to: contribution to our region. Remember, television was a relatively new device in 1952, when our founders were Doris E. Wolff was a graduate of St. Louis University with a master’s degree in developing the idea that would become national educational television. $780 per year, or a 7.80% return, for life. advanced math. She became a math teacher at Cleveland High School and A Federal charitable deduction of $5,600. instilled a love of math in many, many of her students over the years. Her students We believe they were successful because they were guided by their principles and $640 of each year’s income is tax-free for described her as compassionate and encouraging. She was also a Sunday School their purpose. For them, television was just a tool—the technology that would approximately 5.5 years. teacher who cared very deeply about the young people she taught. help them achieve their vision for our community. Clearly Doris Wolff touched many lives through her teaching. Things have certainly changed since our founding in 1954. We now have the internet, Roku, Tivo, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and more devices than we know But she discovered a way to touch many more lives. Gift Annuity Rates what to do with. In 2013, we were very surprised to learn that Doris Wolff had created an But our principles and our purpose have never changed. 9.00% additional legacy that would affect the lives of children throughout our 10% region for many years to come. We exist to ignite the spirit of possibility in our region. And we do it by providing 8% opportunities for learning, by creating greater respect for one another, and by 7.80% The Nine Network reaches a very large audience—often the largest per capita expanding our understanding of the world. 6% 6.80% 5.80% audience of any public television station in America. And, we have become a 5.10% 4% 4.70% national leader in community engagement—demonstrating what public media Whether you experience the Nine Network on one of our four channels, on the can do to strengthen civic life in communities across our country. internet, on social media or in person, we stand for our principles and our purpose. AGE 65 70 75 80 85 90+ We have a vision. And, while our work begins with children, we know we must We have made a long-term commitment to the people of work together to create a strong and healthy community for children and our region—and that has required us to make a adults alike. long-term investment in the future that will Joint/Survivorship Gift Annuity Rates come after us. Your annuity gift to the Nine Network will work for you and for your community. AGE % RETURN AGE % RETURN “ The future belongs, not to those who have the Nine Network of Public Media 60/65 4.00% 80/85 6.10% most, but to those who 3655 Olive Street do the most with what St. Louis, Missouri 63108 65/70 4.40% 85/90 7.30% they have.” 70/75 4.80% 90/95 8.80% —Eugene P. Odum Call Roya Bromell 314-512-9129 75/80 5.30% One-Life Example: What one person can do. A Nine Network Gift Annuity Our founders were visionaries. Mrs. Edwards is 85 years old and is interested in helping the Nine Network We all want to make a positive difference in the can offer big financial benefits They believed education was essential to a healthy community and hoped continue its quality educational and entertainment programs. At the same time lives of others. But sometimes we wonder what television could bring opportunities for learning into every home. she would like to have a guaranteed lifetime income. Mrs. Edwards contributes one person can do. for you... and a significant $10,000 to the Nine Network’s Gift Annuity Program and is entitled to: contribution to our region. Remember, television was a relatively new device in 1952, when our founders were Doris E. Wolff was a graduate of St. Louis University with a master’s degree in developing the idea that would become national educational television. $780 per year, or a 7.80% return, for life. advanced math. She became a math teacher at Cleveland High School and A Federal charitable deduction of $5,600. instilled a love of math in many, many of her students over the years. Her students We believe they were successful because they were guided by their principles and $640 of each year’s income is tax-free for described her as compassionate and encouraging. She was also a Sunday School their purpose. For them, television was just a tool—the technology that would approximately 5.5 years. teacher who cared very deeply about the young people she taught. help them achieve their vision for our community. Clearly Doris Wolff touched many lives through her teaching. Things have certainly changed since our founding in 1954. We now have the internet, Roku, Tivo, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and more devices than we know But she discovered a way to touch many more lives. Gift Annuity Rates what to do with. In 2013, we were very surprised to learn that Doris Wolff had created an But our principles and our purpose have never changed. 9.00% additional legacy that would affect the lives of children throughout our 10% region for many years to come. We exist to ignite the spirit of possibility in our region. And we do it by providing 8% opportunities for learning, by creating greater respect for one another, and by 7.80% The Nine Network reaches a very large audience—often the largest per capita expanding our understanding of the world. 6% 6.80% 5.80% audience of any public television station in America. And, we have become a 5.10% 4% 4.70% national leader in community engagement—demonstrating what public media Whether you experience the Nine Network on one of our four channels, on the can do to strengthen civic life in communities across our country. internet, on social media or in person, we stand for our principles and our purpose. AGE 65 70 75 80 85 90+ We have a vision. And, while our work begins with children, we know we must We have made a long-term commitment to the people of work together to create a strong and healthy community for children and our region—and that has required us to make a adults alike. long-term investment in the future that will Joint/Survivorship Gift Annuity Rates come after us. Your annuity gift to the Nine Network will work for you and for your community. AGE % RETURN AGE % RETURN “ The future belongs, not to those who have the Nine Network of Public Media 60/65 4.00% 80/85 6.10% most, but to those who 3655 Olive Street do the most with what St. Louis, Missouri 63108 65/70 4.40% 85/90 7.30% they have.” 70/75 4.80% 90/95 8.80% —Eugene P. Odum Call Roya Bromell 314-512-9129 75/80 5.30% One-Life Example: What one person can do. A Nine Network Gift Annuity Our founders were visionaries. Mrs. Edwards is 85 years old and is interested in helping the Nine Network We all want to make a positive difference in the can offer big financial benefits They believed education was essential to a healthy community and hoped continue its quality educational and entertainment programs. At the same time lives of others. But sometimes we wonder what television could bring opportunities for learning into every home. she would like to have a guaranteed lifetime income. Mrs. Edwards contributes one person can do. for you... and a significant $10,000 to the Nine Network’s Gift Annuity Program and is entitled to: contribution to our region. Remember, television was a relatively new device in 1952, when our founders were Doris E. Wolff was a graduate of St. Louis University with a master’s degree in developing the idea that would become national educational television. $780 per year, or a 7.80% return, for life. advanced math. She became a math teacher at Cleveland High School and A Federal charitable deduction of $5,600. instilled a love of math in many, many of her students over the years. Her students We believe they were successful because they were guided by their principles and $640 of each year’s income is tax-free for described her as compassionate and encouraging. She was also a Sunday School their purpose. For them, television was just a tool—the technology that would approximately 5.5 years. teacher who cared very deeply about the young people she taught. help them achieve their vision for our community. Clearly Doris Wolff touched many lives through her teaching.