Monthly Meeting for Business / June 7
1:00 p.m. / Virtual Facebook Meeting.
SOLAR+ENERGY Project Update / June 7 Monthly Meeting for Business
PROPOSAL: Install solar energy for New Garden Friends Meeting and provide energy relief for local low-income homeowners. STEWARDSHIP: Solar power generation to reduce fossil fuel use and energy costs. COMMUNITY: A donation to Community Housing Solutions for energy conservation projects for local low-income homeowners. Please join Meeting for Business on 6/7/20 @ 1pm to discuss this proposal.
Let Your Life Speak / Planned Giving Virtual Session / June 4
Join us for a virtual educational session about planned giving on Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 10:30 am. This virtual ZOOM meeting will feature Mimi Blackwell, Planned Giving Program Manager for Friends Fiduciary Corporation. Planned Giving is an effective and meaningful way to leave your legacy for causes you are passionate about. Some planned giving vehicles provide options for life-long income or ways to support your loved ones. Mimi Blackwell is a veteran planned giving…
Finance & Stewardship Update / May 24
We continue to meet all the Meeting’s obligations including payroll, utilities, building care and our outreach to help other organizations and people in need. I was gratified to see the response to the request for support of the Urban Ministry Food Bank. We doubled our goal. However, contributions to the general budget are down this month. Normally we would have received contributions from over 140 families by this time of the year. There are only…
Let Your Life Speak / Planned Giving Session / RSVP by May 28
10:30 a.m. / Virtual Meeting June 4, 2020 / Planned giving is an effective and meaningful way to leave your legacy for causes you are passionate about. Some planed giving vehicles provide options for life-long income or ways to support your loved ones. Mimi Blackwell, J.D. is a veteran planned giving professional with Friends Fiduciary who will provide an informative free workshop about the basics and benefits of bequests, charitable gift annuities, charitable trusts and…
Finance and Stewardship
The work of the Meeting continues, and so do the financial obligations. Please consider sending a check to the Meeting or give online using the “Donate” button on the Meeting website at NGFM.org.
Notes from Charlie White on Charitable Giving
A few notes for the older members of our congregation; In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act on March 27, 2020. Several provisions in the CARES Act affect Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs): • If you are an IRA account holder who is 72 years old or older, you can skip taking your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) in 2020 without penalty. • If you have already…