Thank you for your interest in Cal State University Sacramento. Our hope is to serve you and your family with helpful information. We have an increasing number of friends who now are benefiting from life income gifts, gift annuities and other plans. Thank you for taking the time to explore the benefits of gift planning.

Trusts can be quite useful for protecting children. However, for some children, the trust serves an additional function: It protects the principal from being rapidly spent by a child. These trusts have a...
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A legacy for a loved one, financial help for students and support for multilingual education. The potential for this win-win-win situation persuaded Nadeen Ruiz and husband Bob Thiele to establish a Charitable...
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"I would like to get my personal and financial information organized so my kids will know what's going on if I die or become incapacitated. Any tips would be appreciated." Organizing your important...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is negotiating with other Washington leaders to extend the payroll tax cut. Under the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 (H.R. 3765), the employee contribution for January and February of 2012 was reduced 2% from 6.2% to 4.2%. The White House, Reid and other leaders are proposing to extend this tax reduction for all of 2012.

This week in Washington, an aide to Sen. Reid indicated that he favors including the tax extenders in the payroll tax cut bill. The tax extenders are 40 provisions have been passed each year for the past two decades. A provision of particular importance to philanthropy is the tax extender that...
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