ISEF Chairman Carlos Benaim's fascinating life journey, from the Moroccan port city of Tangier to developing the world's most iconic fragrances, is profiled in two major Israeli publications this summer.
Planned Giving and Endowment
Planned Giving
You can can help guarantee that your commitment to ISEF’s mission and work extends beyond your lifetime!
Planning your estate offers a wonderful chance to remember the bright but disadvantaged young Israelis whose lives are transformed each year thanks to ISEF.
A charitable bequest to the ISEF Foundation can be as easy as adding this statement to your will:
I hereby give, devise, and bequeath to the ISEF Foundation, currently located at 135 West 29th Street, Suite 303, New York, NY 10001, (_______ percent of my estate; or the sum of $ _______ ) to be held and administered by the ISEF Foundation Board of Directors for the purpose of supporting ISEF’s deserving scholarship students and programs.
Other estate planning options include donating a life insurance policy to ISEF. This option enables our supporters to make a more significant contribution to ISEF than would be possible during their lifetime. If generating a major gift for ISEF from a relatively small financial commitment fits into your plans, you could either gift an existing life insurance policy to ISEF — or consider purchasing a separate new policy with ISEF as the beneficiary.
If you wish to make a planned gift to ISEF, please consult your legal and financial advisors. For more information, please contact Janice Stolar, ISEF’s Executive Director, at 212-683-7772.
Named Endowment Fund
ISEF has several named endowment funds whose revenues support both general operating funds, and specific programs run by ISEF. The minimum donation to establish a named endowment fund, in honor or memory of a loved one or in your own name, is $100,000. ISEF maintains a special board committee which oversees the investment of the foundation’s endowment funds, and the family making the donation will receive an annual accounting of income and expenditures.
International Fellow Dr. Itsik Francis (above left, with former ISEF Chair Norman Belmonte) shared this, from two new ISEF supporters:
"They said they had never seen a foundation that behaves like a family. with such warm feeling. Perhaps we should change ISEF to 'International Sephardic Education Family'?”
