• Providing planned gifts that benefit you and your family
  
• Bringing immediate and deferred tax advantages to both you and your heirs
  
• Having a meaningful impact on Brown and our goals and interests, beyond your own lifetime and far into the future

Take a look around and explore the site. Learn about the many opportunities to support Brown through charitable giving. Have your planned giving questions answered and page through the glossary for detailed definitions of terms.

The gift calculator is designed to enable you to determine the right gift amount for you. And, the Web site allows you to request ebrochures for in-depth information on a broad range of planned giving topics.

We encourage you to consider the planned giving site for Brown University a resource for all of your charitable giving needs.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss your planned gifts, please contact Office of Planned Giving at 401-863-9119, or via e-mail at Planned_Giving@brown.edu.

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