Including Transportation Alternatives in your will or living trust will help ensure that future generations of New Yorkers will enjoy safer streets, cleaner air, and healthier lifestyles. A gift through your will or living trust is fully deductible from your estate, and may significantly reduce taxes on the balance of your estate. Sample language is below.

There are several ways to make a bequest through your will or trust

• An explicit bequest of an amount of money or specific property (stocks, real estate, etc.)
• A percentage bequest listing the percentage of your estate you wish to leave
• A residual bequest for the remainder of your estate or a percentage of the remainder after you have made your specific bequests.
• A contingent bequest naming T.A. as the recipient should another beneficiary not survive you

If you would like more information on this or any other special giving option to Transportation Alternatives, please feel free to email Abby King or call her at 212-629-8080.

Legal Counsel
Because of the complexity of estate planning, it is important that your attorney structures your estate and writes your will or trust so your wishes are clearly articulated. Transportation Alternatives cannot act as executor of a donor's estate.

Suggested Language
"I give (specific amount, percentage or residue) to Transportation Alternatives, organized and existing under the laws of New York, having its offices at 127 W. 26th Street New York, NY 10001, for its general purposes."

Charitable bequests are excluded from your adjusted gross estate for estate tax purposes. Transportation Alternatives is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and our tax identification number is 51-0186015.

To make sure all legal requirements are met, it is important that you have an attorney draft or revise your will.