Bequests

Please Consider Including NOFA/Mass in Your Estate Plan

The financial support you provide for NOFA/Mass is crucial to our work. Without your help, we couldn’t do it. Planned giving is a way for you to perpetuate your support by remembering NOFA/Mass in your will. It’s a simple process.

The simplest and most widely used venue for leaving a financial gift is through wills. These gifts can include cash, appreciated securities, or personal property.

  • Here is some language you may use when preparing your will:
  • I give, devise and bequeath $_______, or
  • I give, devise and bequeath ____% of my estate, or
  • I give, devise and bequeath ____% of the rest and residue of my estate to The Northeast Organic Farming Association/Massachusetts Chapter, Inc., PO Box 60043 Florence, MA 01062 for the purpose of educating about organic agriculture in Massachusetts

You may also list NOFA/Mass as the beneficiary of your bank accounts, retirement plan and life insurance. Contact your financial institution, plan administrator, or life insurance agent for the procedures required to revise your beneficiary designations.

Once that information is provided, enter the following in the space provided on the beneficiary designation forms:

The Northeast Organic Farming Association/Massachusetts Chapter, Inc., PO Box 60043 Florence, MA 01062

If you wish to discuss other methods of providing gifts to NOFA/Mass, such as through Trusts, please contact Jocelyn Langer, Executive Director, jocelyn@nofamass.org.