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The Three Great Gifts

• Be a Friend: Make an Annual Gift
  
• Vow Support: Make a Three-Year Pledge
  
• Name the Love: Remember SSJE in your Will

 

Levels of Giving

The Brothers welcome and appreciate all gifts of any amount. If you are able, please prayfully consider an annual commitment of $500, under $10 a week, or more. Gifts can be made annually, monthly by credit card or direct debit, by stock gift.
SSJE will acknowledge all donors by name, but not amount in our Annual Fund report. 

Currently the Brothers are supported by donors giving at the levels of:

• Annual gifts up to $500
• Annual gifts of $500 - $999
• Annual gifts of $1,000 - $2,499
• Annual gifts of $2,500 – $4,999
• Annual gifts of $5,000 and above

 

Be a Friend: Make an Annual Gift

The Brothers receive no regular institutional support. The gifts of Friends quite literally perpetuate their life and love. In this, the Brothers are upheld in their ministry by the generosity of those who have experienced their love and care. They are upheld by our prayers and our love, but they count on our generosity. Our generosity is like another hand, another pair of hands, given to them to do their work.

Please enter the stream of love that flows from Christ and out through the hands of the Brothers, by joining the Friends of SSJE and making a gift.

• Make a gift now

 

Vow Support: Make a Three-Year Pledge

The reasons to make a three-year pledge to SSJE begin with the simplest and most practical: a three-year pledge helps the Brothers not have to worry about calling, writing, doing all the institutional stuff that they otherwise need to do to survive. But, even more, a long-term gift like a three-year pledge strengthens and affirms your loving connection to their work. Such a gift is like a vow or promise, it’s something they can count on, for strength.

A long-term gift returns its own gift to you as well. As human beings we all long for some kind of constant community, a partner or a spouse or a dear friend. The community associated with the Brothers meets this longing and satisfies our desire to reach up towards the light and towards something larger. The constancy of our love returns to us in the constancy of love we receive from the Brothers and the community they gather around them.

• Make a Pledge today (download)

 

Name the Love: Remember SSJE in your Will

All gifts, because they come out of love, never simply stop. By giving to the Brothers now, in any gift, your love is reaching the kind of people that you would not have a chance to reach out to yourself. When you make a gift, you enter a stream of love that takes you beyond today, beyond tomorrow.

A bequest lasts even longer, because it is not just a now gift, it is a forever gift. After you leave this world, a bequest can continue radiating love, leaving a mark of love on your life. If you want to leave a mark of love behind, there is no institution that we know of that radiates love the way the Brothers do.

• Bequest information

The Fiscal Facts

The Brothers of SSJE depend on friends and benefactors for the financial support of their life and ministry.

In round numbers the Society of Saint John the Evangelist has a two million dollar budget that covers running two large properties which serve as retreat centers (the Monastery in Cambridge and Emery House in West Newbury, MA), looking after 17-21 monks and staff, and funding all SSJE ministries. The brothers have an endowment whose draw is limited to the prudent level of 4.5%-5%, which funds about 35% of the annual budget. Guesthouse income contributes about 15% of the budget, and 5% comes from other sources. This means that the Community relies on Friends who donate to the Annual Fund to fund 45% of the budget. Friends’ gifts make it possible for the Brothers to welcome all.

 

Ways of Giving

• To make a one-time or monthly donation with credit card
  
• For information on sending a check to SSJE
  
• For information on making a gift of stock
  
• To make a Three Year Pledge
  
• Information for Canadian, UK & German donors on making gifts
  
• For information on estate planning and how to include SSJE
  
• For estate planning products such as charitable remainder trusts

 

Check Information

Please make checks payable to:
The Society of Saint John the Evangelist or SSJE
Send to:
The Society of Saint John the Evangelist
Donations
980 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02138-5717

Canadian, UK and German Giving

SSJE Friends in Canada can make tax deductible donations through The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust. At this time we cannot accept Canadian gifts paid by credit card. Please make checks payable to: SSJE and send to:
“SSJE” c/o Scotia Trust Co., Attn: Mrs. Vi Bunclark, Trust Administrator
The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company, Exchange Tower, PO Box 430,
Stn First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario M5X 1K1

UK Giving

 SSJE Friends in the UK can now donate gifts of GBP 250.00 or more, through Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). This method allows SSJE to reclaim the taxes paid by the donor as is allowed under UK tax law. You can open a CAF Charity Account either online at www.cafonline.org or by calling 01732 520 050. Please specify The Society of Saint John the Evangelist, Boston when
making your gift.

Donations from Germany

Donations may be given by way of:
Maecenata International e.V.
Büro München, Herzogstrasse 60, D-80803 München
Tel.:+49-89-28 44 52 /Fax: +49-89-28 37 74

Geschäftsführer: Rupert Graf Strachwitz
Informationen / For information see: http://www.maecenata.eu

Account nr.: 13 38 53 500
BLZ: 700 303 00
Bank: Bankhaus Reuschel & Co.
Reference: "Society of Saint John the Evangelist" or "SSJE"

Please remember to write your address into the reference field of the transfer voucher so that Maecenata can send you a tax receipt.

 

Gifts of Stock and other Securities

We ask you to consider making gifts by Stock only if your gift is of $1,000 or more in value because of the fees and transactions costs the Brothers have to pay.

Email Information to my broker

• Agent Bank: State Street Bank & Trust Company
• Agent Bank Number: 22319
• Agent Bank Clearing Number: DTC 2319
• Agent Bank Account Number: 45-23072
• Agent Bank Account: Society of Saint John the Evangelist

AND please reference the following:
FFC: BZ99/Society of St. John the Evangelist a/c#4523072

We shall need certain information to properly process the stock transfer. This information can either come directly from you or from your broker, but should be done before the actual transfer is made. Please telephone, fax, or email the Treasurer's Office with the following information:

1. Your name
2. Name of stock
3. Exact number of shares being transferred
4. CUSIP number for the stock
5. Company name & DTC broker number
6. Any designation for the use of the gift

We will gratefully acknowledge your gift and send a statement stating its mean value.

Treasurer's Office
The Society of Saint John the Evangelist
980 Memorial Drive
Cambridge , MA 02138 U.S.A.
tel: (617) 876-3037, ext. 16
fax: (617) 441-8156
email: treasury@ssje.org

 

Estate planning Information

Specific Amount for General Purposes
"I give, advise, and bequeath to the Society of St. John the Evangelist, in the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the sum of $______ to be used at the Society’s discretion for the general objectives and purposes of said Society."

Percentage Amount for General Purposes
"I give, and bequeath to Society of St. John the Evangelist, in the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, ___% of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, to be used at the Society’s discretion for the general objectives and purposes of said Society." 

Unrestricted Bequest to SSJE’s Endowment
"I give, and bequeath to Society of St. John the Evangelist, in the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, ___% of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate, to be placed in the Society’s Endowment Fund, for use at said Society’s discretion."

These are only samples for your consideration. Your legal counsel can help you to refine the bequest language to suit your specific wishes for SSJE. If you do have specific wishes please contact James Coats, Director, Friends of SSJE, (617) 844-2244 or friends@ssje.org. If you do decide to include SSJE in your will, we would find it very helpful to have a copy of that portion of your will for our records.