Planned gifts offer you smart and powerful ways to increase the impact of your gifts to CCU – often while benefiting your family, too. By understanding the available options, you can multiply the results of your generosity in ways that are simple, flexible, cost-effective, and powerful.
NON-CASH GIFTS
Donate appreciated
assets for tax efficiency.
GIFTS FROM YOUR IRA
Transfer retirement
assets tax-free.
GIFTS IN A WILL
Include CCU in your
estate planning.
GIFTS THAT PAY YOU
Receive income for life
while supporting CCU.
DONOR-ADVISED FUND
Simplify your charitable
giving and support CCU.
The trained staff of CCU's Office of University Advancement is more than able to assist you as you consider leaving a planned and legacy gift to Colorado Christian University.
Planned giving allows you to support CCU’s Christ-centered mission through your estate or financial plans.
Colorado Christian University has been blessed by a growing number of legacy partners who have generously remembered the University in their financial plans. These partners — past and present — have cared deeply for the distinct, Christ-centered liberal arts higher education mission of CCU. Without these generous legacy gifts, CCU would be a much different place today — and the same holds true for the future.
Making a planned gift is not just for those with enormous wealth or special financial expertise. Planned giving is for anyone with a generous spirit who wants to remember CCU in their end-of-life financial stewardship. In fact, most gifts are simple, end-of-life beneficiary gifts. These gifts — when combined with hundreds of others — provide abundant, sustainable financial support.
I think my father and grandfather would both be very excited about CCU ... the way it's grown and developed and the way that their gift was multiplied.- Vance Harwood
In 1959, the Harwood family donated land in Morrison, Colorado, to Western Bible Institute, a heritage institution of Colorado Christian University. Valued at $140,000 then, the gift—now known as Lyons Ridge—has generated over $25 million in cumulative revenues and donations.
In gratitude for the Harwood family’s lasting generosity, CCU named its legacy-giving society the Harwood Legacy Society, honoring those who make planned or legacy gifts to the University.
By designating CCU as a beneficiary of your planned or legacy gift, you join the Harwood Legacy Society—investing in the future of CCU, its students, faculty, and Christ-centered mission.
