Planned Giving and Estate Planning
Ensure Clarke’s excellence for generations to come with a legacy gift.
Clarke honors and recognizes those extraordinary people who have provided for Clarke in their estate plans by means of a bequest, charitable trust, annuity, life insurance policies, retirement plans and other vehicles.
If you have included Clarke in your estate plans, please let us know. We would like to thank you for your generosity; make sure the purpose of your gift is understood and documented.
Planned giving includes leaving a bequest in your will, trust or from your retirement plan to provide a continuation of the giving you attended to during your lifetime. After you are gone, you may want to provide a legacy to Clarke to perpetuate funds needed to continue the mission initiated many years ago. And the gift may be tax deductible!
My attorney suggested that I might enjoy the act of giving my legacy gift today. Becoming a member of the John Clarke Legacy Society has been a very satisfying experience. My mother-in-law, Marion Wood, was a teacher at Clarke for many years and my gift honors her dedication to teaching children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
She taught people by how she lived, even in how she left her estate. The best we can do is be receptive to these lessons.
To her, Clarke saved her. She loved it there. Once she got there she blossomed.
For more information on these meaningful gifts, please contact develop@clarkeschools.org or 413.584.3450.
Salvatore
Salvatore, born with severe to profound hearing loss, started with Clarke through the Birth to Age Three Program at four...
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Joey
Joey was diagnosed with moderate severe sensorineural hearing loss in both ears within her first week of life.
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Allison
Allison, diagnosed as profoundly deaf at birth, soars in high school with Clarke’s Mainstream Services.
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Perkins School for the Blind Visits Clarke Boston, Resuming Educational Collaboration Since Covid-19
Scholars in the Perkins School for the Blind Education Leadership Program join Clarke Boston team members for a photo. Twelve international scholars from Perkins School for the Blind visited Clarke Boston for a tour and to discuss innovations in hearing
Clarke Teams Up with Kilwins Jacksonville and Raises Over $100,000
More than 670 runners and walkers participated in the 2023 Kilwins Jacksonville Ice Cream Run!
Clarke Teacher of the Deaf Authors Reflection Piece on the Power of Accommodations for Hearing Loss
Joo Young Hong, a teacher of the deaf at Clarke, has authored a reflection piece in the Hearing Impairments chapter of “Exceptional Lives: Practice, Progress, & Dignity in Today’s Schools,” 10th edition titled “My Voice: The Power of Accommodations for
