Planned Giving and Estate Planning
Make a Planned Gift, Make an Estate Plan
Honoring the Past, Investing in the Future
Plan Your Legacy
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!
Meet Legacy Donors
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.
Make a Planned Gift, Make a Difference
For more information on these meaningful gifts, please contact develop@clarkeschools.org or 413.584.3450.
Our Stories
Leah
Leah was diagnosed with bilateral severe sensorineural hearing loss and was just under 10 months old when her family began...
Read More »
Muhammad
Muhammad has a bilateral hearing loss and began working with Clarke as a preschooler. In addition to his classroom experience,...
Read More »
Leighton
Like most caregivers who discover their child was born with a hearing loss, Nina and Spencer worried at first how...
Read More »Recent Clarke News
A Research Opportunity for Families with Infants Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Help researchers explore whether early language experience impacts how infants who are deaf or hard of hearing develop their ability to recognize differences between quantities. In this study babies are shown a series of images on the left and right sides of the screen.
Seasonal Hearing Health Tips
Audiologists at the Clarke Hearing Center compiled tips and best practices to support hearing health throughout the fall and winter seasons when the weather can be cooler, and more people gather indoors.
Clarke Audiologist Shares Why Hearing Health Matters
Hear Christine Kelley, audiologist at the Clarke Hearing Center, explain why hearing health matters on WACE AM 730 radio. Christine shares signs for getting your hearing checked and why it’s important to have an audiologist assess your hearing, as well as the inspiration for her career path.
