Betty Azar TAAF receives $15,000 gift TAA member Betty Azar has made a $15,000 unrestricted gift to the TAA Foundation. Azar, the author of the bestselling Azar Grammar Series, published by Pearson Longman, said she hoped her gift would encourage other textbook authors of perennial bestsellers to support the Foundation... click for more

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Support your association by including a gift to the TAA Foundation in your will. By doing so, you will ensure that TAA's good work on behalf of text and academic authors continues into the future. A bequest is an easy and convenient way to support the association while receiving valuable tax benefits for your estate.

Please notify us by letter of your intentions. Include your name, address, phone and e-mail address; whether you would like your gift to go into general TAA operating funds to be used at the discretion of the Foundation's board of trustees, or whether you would like to restrict your gift to some specific purpose; and whether you would like your gift to remain anonymous or whether we could include your name as a donor.

Mail to: Text and Academic Authors Association Foundation, P.O. Box 76477, St. Petersburg, FL 33734-6477.

Contact your attorney, banker or tax advisor to establish a will or to leave a bequest in your will.

Sample language for including TAA in your will (do not use this language without consultation with your estate planning attorney. Not coordinating the bequest with an underlying estate plan can cause problems regarding carrying out the intent of the estate plan):

"I hereby gift and bequeath (____% or $_________) of my estate to the Text and Academic Authors Association Foundation." Or, "I hereby gift and bequeath the residual or ____% of the residual of my estate to the Text and Academic Authors Association Foundation."

Other ways to benefit TAA in your estate planning include:

• Setting up a CD with the beneficiary designated as TAAF. This method is best if you're leaving an amount less than $10,000. It would preserve the money for an unforeseen need by you, and transfer it without probate to TAAF upon your death.
• Designate TAAF for an amount of your IRA or 401K plan by obtaining a "beneficiary designation" from your IRA or 401K administrator. This type of gift would pass to TAAF tax free as opposed to a possible 60 cents on the dollar to an heir.

For more information, contact Michael Lennie, TAA Foundation President, at (619) 515-5456 or mlennie@aol.com

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