Planned Giving and Endowment
Creating your own legacy can be accomplished with a planned gift or endowment. By creating your legacy gift you will be helping WellSpan Evangelical plan for the future and continue providing vital health and wellness services for your family, friends, and neighbors.
Planned Giving
There are many options for planned giving including: beneficiary designations, life insurance gifts, IRA rollovers, and options that provide immediate tax deductions and income for life. The Gift Planning Guide summarizes some of the planned giving options.
Gift Calculator
Use our Gift Calculator to start exploring life-income gifts to see how this option may work for you.
The Legacy Circle
Those who provide to the hospital through their will or estate are forever honored in the WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital Foundation Legacy Circle.
Endowment
An endowment is a charitable gift that is invested to earn interest. Annually, a distribution is made from the endowed fund to support the designated program. Unrestricted endowment distributions are used where needed most.
Donors are welcome to support any existing endowment or to create a new endowment* by calling 570-522-2685. *New endowments require a gift minimum, call for details.
WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital Foundation endowment funds include:
- Kendra A. Aucker Endowment for Employee Benefit, Recognition, and Community Service
- W. Gale Reish, MD, Community Health Education Fund
- Mae Keefer Nursing Scholarship Fund
- Crystal Carter Snyder Nursing Scholarship Fund
- Michael Daniloff Endowment for Evangelical Hospice
- William N. & Elizabeth K. Frederick Endowment for Evangelical Mobile Medical
Services (ERMMS) - J. Preston, MD, & June M. Hoyle Endowment
- Charles P. Fasano, DO, Memorial Lecture Fund