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Legacy Giving

Gift in Your Will

You can make mental health a priority now and in the future

A gift in your will to the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services could help stop the stigma associated with mental illness. It could help prevent a suicide. It could help someone with mental illness live on their own. It could help someone gain the confidence to find a job.

While we continue to make strides in tackling the stigma of mental illness, we have much more work to do! The struggles are real. We lose too many people to suicide. Like a physical disease, such as diabetes or cancer, mental illness should be treated the same way. Your gift can help us get there and make mental health matter!

When you leave a gift in your will, you pass on the values that you believe in and stand for during your lifetime. Your legacy gift, whatever its size, will help improve access to innovative mental health programs for future generations.

What you need to know

A charitable bequest to the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services in your will is one of the most popular and simple ways of ensuring that your values and beliefs live on to benefit future generations. Whether you are having your first will drafted or are revising your current will, including a bequest to CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services is easier than you think.

1. Contact your lawyer, financial advisor or tax consultant today to discuss your options. They will take care of the details!

2. Tell us you are making a gift in your will. It gives us the chance to say thanks and we can answer any questions about where your gift will go! 

3. Know that you are making mental health matter for generations to come!

Sample wording for wills:

  1. I direct my Executors to give ______% of the residue of my Estate to the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services for where it is needed most as determined in the absolute discretion of the Directors of the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services.
  2. I direct my Executors to give to the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services the sum of $_____ to be used where it is needed the most as determined in the absolute discretion of the Directors of the Canadian Mental Health Association Middlesex.
  3. I direct my Executors to give to the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services the sum of $_____ (or_____% of my residue) to be used for the purpose of _____________ (examples could include: Mental Health Assistance Fund, Rural Mental Health Fund, My Sisters’ Place Program, or another program at CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services, etc.), provided that if such purpose ceases to exist or ceases to be provided by the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services, then the legacy shall not fail but the Directors of the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services shall use such legacy for a purpose which most closely resembles the purpose set out above.
  4. I direct my Executors to give to the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services, _____________ (real estate, securities, etc.) for use where it is needed most as determined in the absolute discretion of the Directors of the CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services.

Disclaimer

The information on this page is provided for general information purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice and assistance from your lawyer, financial advisor, or tax consultant. We recommend that you discuss your plans and your will wording with your lawyer and/or financial advisor before proceeding with a gift in your will.

Please note

As our needs change from year to year, it is appreciated if an “undesignated” gift can be made. If restrictions are placed on your gift, they should be made generally and with some flexibility or an “out” clause, should the need no longer exist at the time of your death (please see option No. 3 as an example of this flexibility).

Questions

Have any questions? Your donation to the Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services helps us improve important programs and services that assist individuals managing mental health and addictions in our community. Find out more here with our Donation FAQ, or questions can be directed to donate@cmha.tv. Like more information? Contact us! Call 519-668-0624 ext. 1049 or email donate@cmhatv.ca. Our charitable registration number is: 118834217 RR 0001.

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