How We Can Work Together To Protect Farmland

Your contributions to California Farmland Trust will help to ensure that our food stays local. By protecting our finite resource of productive farmland in California, we can ensure our family farmers can continue to care for and steward viable farmland while providing an abundant safe and nutritious food supply that helps feed your family and mine.

By working together, the permanent protection and conservation of farmland can continue. We will remain steadfast and committed to protecting not just farmland, but California’s valuable agricultural industry that produces more than 400 commodities. With your contribution, you are leaving your legacy to ensure that your children, grandchildren, and the generations to come will live in a place that produces the freshest, healthiest, and safest food by local family farmers.

Consider a gift today to California Farmland Trust and leave YOUR legacy! Ways to Partner with California Farmland Trust

• IRA Gift/Qualified Charitable Distributions - If you are 72 1/2 years or older, you have additional donation options that can greatly benefit California Farmland Trust and provide some tax benefits to you. You can give any amount, up to $100,000 per year, as a qualified charitable distribution (QCD) from your IRA, also known as an IRA charitable rollover. This donation is tax-free if it is paid directly to a qualified charity, such as California Farmland Trust. Please talk to your plan administrator or tax advisor for more information.

• Donor Advised Fund Gifts - A donor-advised fund (DAF) is a charitable program where a donor makes a tax-deductible contribution to a public charity (like Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, etc.), and then can recommend grants over time to one or more of their favorite non-profits. DAFs have quickly become a popular vehicle to help donors simplify their philanthropic goals and make their giving more strategic.

• Employer Match – Do you know if your company offers a gift matching program? Many times, employers will give where you give – doubling the impact of your gift. Check with your HR department to see if these options are available to you.

• Giving Tuesday – Tuesday, November 28 is Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving and generosity. Everyone’s act of kindness counts and makes a difference no matter how large or small. To give on Giving Tuesday visit our website www.cafarmtrust.org and click “Donate” or simply include a donation in the envelope inserted in this issue of Legacy.

• Year End – A tax-deductible gift before December 31, 2023 will help further CFT’s mission and will be leveraged to help us secure additional grants and funding to protect additional farms and farmland.

You can make a donation online, using our fast, safe and secure system. Mail a check payable to California Farmland Trust to our office at P.O. Box 1960, Elk Grove, CA 95759, or by calling Gerad Borrego, Development Director at 916-430-6802 or Amy Wolfe, Strategic Marketing and Development Manager at 209-499-4091. They can provide additional details and take your payment over the phone.