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Giving to Collegium
Despite our affiliation with Harvard University, Collegium relies on outside funding to support concerts, new music commissions, tours, subsidized student voice lessons, and other programming. As a result, alumni as part of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Foundation must raise a significant proportion of the budget each year. The Foundation needs your financial support so we can continue to make the Collegium experience accessible to all.
$2,000
enables Collegium to commission and perform a world premiere
$30,000
allows Collegium to hire a professional orchestra for a major work
$315
funds a Collegiite’s voice lesson scholarship for a semester
Join Collegium Infinitum
Join the Foundation’s new sustained giving society, Collegium Infinitum, with a bequest or large gift commitment.
There are many ways to give
Consider making a memorial gift to honor a loved one who sang with Collegium.
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Make a gift today by credit card or PayPal. Consider setting up a monthly or annual recurring donation.
Donate via check made out to HRCMF and mailed to:
Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 381987 Cambridge, MA 02238
Matching gift
Double your impact through your employer’s matching gift program.
Make a bequest
Free wills and trusts
Create a free, legal estate plan with our alumna-founded partner, FreeWill, and include a lasting gift for Collegium.
Existing wills
Add Collegium to an existing estate plan by directing your attorney to add this language as a codicil: “I give ( _____ dollars or _____ percent of the residue of my estate) to the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, a Massachusetts charitable corporation, for its general purposes.”
Assets outside of wills
Designate the Foundation a beneficiary of non-probate assets such as life insurance that are outside of an existing estate plan here.
Tax-advantaged giving
Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs)
Your contribution to a DAF makes you eligible for an immediate tax deduction. You can then make a one-time gift or set up ongoing sustaining gifts to the Collegium Foundation.
Appreciated securities
When you transfer ownership of long-term holdings to the Collegium Foundation, you receive a charitable deduction for their full market value at the time of the gift, avoiding steep capital gains taxes.
Qualified Charitable Distributions (QCDs)
If you are 70½ years old or older, you can take advantage of a QCD from your Individual Retirement Account. A QCD allows you to transfer up to $100,000 directly to Collegium Foundation without the distribution counting as taxable income. If you are subject to Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs), the donation counts towards your RMD for the year.
Contact plannedgiving@hrcmf.org with questions or for help making your gift. Thank you for your generosity!
The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code (EIN #04-2648126).