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Dear Friend:
Charitable giving can be one of the most rewarding things you do in your life. In this web site, we hope to give you a feel for the range of good things that you can accomplish with your giving, as well as give you some ideas for the best ways to go about it.
For many successful people, a private foundation forms the basis of their charitable strategy. With a private foundation, you can:
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Enhance your ability to make the world a better place, because a private foundation helps create focus, structure, and continuity for a well-thought-out charitable plan.
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Create a unique and permanent legacy. An effective foundation not only bears your name, it carries your vision and ideas far into the future.
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Teach your values and share your vision for a better world with your children or grandchildren, by involving them actively in your charitable activity while you are fully able to participate with them.
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Get a tax break today, and give money to your favorite charities later. You maintain full control over the money in your foundation. You can invest it and let it grow, free of income tax, and give it to charity over the course of many years.
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Achieve additional tax savings each year, and avoid gift and estate taxes altogether.
We created Sterling Foundation Management to help busy executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals - people like you - understand and take full advantage of the benefits offered by private foundations.
We met nearly 20 years ago at Stanford University as undergraduates. Ever since then, we have wanted to combine our business activities with our desire to make the world a better place. We found a perfect way to do this: helping other successful people create and manage their own private foundations.
Over the years, we have worked with a broad range of clients to help them achieve their philanthropic, family, and financial goals through the effective use of private foundations and other charitable planning vehicles. Along the way, we have acquired a great deal of experience in helping successful people maximize the effectiveness of their charitable efforts.
Here's how one client of ours, a Virginia entrepreneur, summarizes the benefits of his private foundation and our work:
"I want to leave my children more than just money. I want to teach them my values, and share with them my vision for a better world. Thanks to Sterling, my private foundation is the ideal vehicle for doing this. Sterling takes care of everything, and that allows me and my family to spend our time focusing on how to make the world a better place. And that's really what it's all about."
As you read through this web site, please keep in mind that our goal is to help you achieve your philanthropic goals. If you have any questions, something piques your interest, or you just want to discuss some point, please feel free at any time to pick up the phone and call us. We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Roger D. Silk, Chief Executive Officer
James W. Lintott, Chairman
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