Many park supporters and visitors make gifts to preserve the Bay Area's beautiful national parks for future generations.

Please consider joining these extraordinary individuals and leave a legacy to support our parks.

Not only will you have the satisfaction of making an important contribution to the future of your favorite national parklands but your legacy commitment will entitle you to special benefits as a lifetime member of the Silver Lupine Circle.

Benefits of membership in the Silver Lupine Circle include:

• Acknowledgment in Parks Conservancy publications such as the annual report and in the quarterly Gateways, inspiring others to make a similar commitment,
• Invitations to special events throughout the year,
• Quarterly insider letters that inform you of interesting and important happenings in the parks, and
• A special gift of a book or a silver lupine plant.

If you already have included the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy in your estate plans, please let us know so that we may include you in the Silver Lupine Circle…our proper and personal thanks to you.

We welcome your interest in and questions about our planned giving program. We’d be happy to talk with you or send you information about how your legacy gift can benefit you and your estate as well as the Golden Gate National Parks and its visitors. Feel free to contact us – your inquiry will remain confidential, and there is no obligation.

Gift Arrangements are another way in which you can give to the Golden Gate National Parks.

The Giving Pledge

Intending to make a difference in charitable giving while challenging their peers, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have challenged their fellow billionaires to commit half of their assets to charities through The Giving Pledge. To date, forty have publicly pledged to do so, although it is hard to know how this will play out in terms of fiscal impact over the course of an unknown number of years.

Presumably, most if not all philanthropists make outright contributions, individually or through their foundations, as well as have set up bequest arrangements.

In any case, this challenge has generated discussion about how to leave a legacy and, as a giving community, to make an impact. And it is not just the super-wealthy who can make a significant difference. Whether we make an immediate gift of cash or property or we remember our favorite causes in our estate plans, we are sending a message about our interests and priorities and influencing others to give as well as making a tangible contribution to good work.