Planned Giving and Estate Planning
Make a Planned Gift, Make an Estate Plan
Ensure Clarke’s excellence for generations to come with a legacy gift.

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!
- Hy Darling, chair of the estate planning and elder law department, Bacon Wilson, P.C. and a Clarke donor
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.
- Joyce Gare






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.
- Jane Berger, about her friend Bluma Cohen who made a legacy gift to Clarke. Read about a legacy gift from Bluma.






To her, Clarke saved her. She loved it there. Once she got there she blossomed.
- Mildred, about her mother Amelia Ragis who attended Clarke and left a legacy gift. Read more about Amelia on page 22.






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
Salvatore
Salvatore, born with severe to profound hearing loss, started with Clarke through the Birth to Age Three Program at four...
Read More »Joey
Joey was diagnosed with moderate severe sensorineural hearing loss in both ears within her first week of life.
Read More »Allison
Allison, diagnosed as profoundly deaf at birth, soars in high school with Clarke’s Mainstream Services.
Read More »Recent Clarke News


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