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With a planned gift to the Brain Injury Association of America, you can combine your desire to give to charity with your overall estate planning, tax, and financial goals. You will help those whose lives have been affected by brain injury for generations to come.

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Naming the Brain Injury Association of America as the beneficiary of a qualified retirement plan such as a 401(k), 403(b), or Individual Retirement Account (IRA) will accomplish a charitable goal while realizing significant tax savings. It can be costly to pass such assets on to heirs because of heavy tax consequences. By naming the Brain Injury Association of America as a beneficiary of your retirement plan, you maintain complete control over the asset while living and upon death pass the asset to the Brain Injury Association of America free of both estate and income taxes.

Charitable Remainder Trusts

Charitable Remainder Trusts are gift arrangements that enable you to contribute to the Brain Injury Association of America while providing financial support for yourself or others.

A Charitable Remainder Trust allows you to:

Claim a charitable tax deduction in the year of the gift.
Retain an income stream from the gift for yourself or others.
Remove the assets from your taxable estates and leave a substantial gift to charity.
Avoid capital gains taxes on appreciated assets donated to the trust.

In addition to the options above, you might consider remembering the Brain Injury Association of America with a bequest from your estate. To learn more about bequests, click here.

Let Us Thank You: Futures Fund Legacy Society

If you have made a planned gift benefitting the Brain Injury Association, please let us know. We would like to thank you for your generosity, make sure the purpose of your gift is understood by the Association, and recognize you as a member of the Futures Fund Legacy Society.

Please contact Paula Eichholz, Senior Development Director, at (703) 761-0750, ext. 648 for more assistance.

"It is critically important for us to advance awareness, research, treatment, and education of such injuries, and to improve the lives of every single human being who is or who will be affected by them."

"So September 17, 2017, was a day that I will never forget. They shot Michael in the left side of his head."

Before reaching out to her local brain injury association and finding an ABI support group, Melissa had nowhere to turn for advice.

“Suddenly memories from the day before seemed like they were decades ago,” says Melissa Shuman, who has come to live with the reality of brain injury after her son, Justin, sustained an acquired brain injury (ABI) following an attempt at suicide.

Recollecting on the first few days of her son’s fight to live, Melissa made it clear she felt like she was fighting just as hard.

“I had been rushing to find out all of this information on my own while he was in a coma. It was exhausting, but who else was going to do it? That’s a mother’s job.” In addition to learning information, Melissa became Justin’s primary caretaker. She spent her days coordinating nursing, therapies, feeding, bathing, and everything else in the living room of their home. “I think I scared myself more than anything, and the doctors didn’t have too much hope, so after a while I had to stop and just believe he would get better, and advocate for what would be best for him.”

In the first several months following Justin’s injury, the Shuman family experienced a great deal of change. They did have health insurance, but had difficulty getting many of the services Justin needed covered without a battle. Like so many others in similar positions, Melissa became an expert in fighting with her insurance company and with the agencies providing services to her son. Justin was not a candidate for inpatient rehabilitation because his medical needs required he be sent to Long-term Acute Care (LTAC), which is essentially a step-down from a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. Instead, Melissa demanded Justin come home, and spent weeks preparing and retrofitting the living room of their home to ensure his ability to live there.

“Bringing Justin home was not an easy quest, and I had no idea where to seek insight on what, how, and when to make the transition,” Melissa explained.

Melissa is enormously appreciative of the online brain injury support group to which she belongs. “It’s an A-B-I group,” she laughs, “Not TBI! TBIs are welcome, but we make sure everyone else is, too. That’s been good for me, to know I’m not alone, and Justin wasn’t alone, and even that my other children are not alone and that someone can relate to what we are going through. A lot of people, actually, relate to what we go through.”

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Jane and her husband, Tim, both sustained brain injuries at different points in their lives. They live with the residual effects every day.

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