Donate

Whether supported through an outright gift or planned gift, all Challenger Center programs are made possible through the generosity and commitment of individuals like you. A planned gift to Challenger Center helps ensure the future of the programs we provide in your community and around the world. It also helps further your financial goals.

Bequest

Our supporters can make charitable gifts by naming Challenger Center as a beneficiary in their wills. The Federal government encourages these gifts or bequests by allowing an unlimited estate tax charitable deduction.

To make a bequest to Challenger Center, the following language may be helpful to your lawyer:

I give, devise, and bequeath to Challenger Center for Space Science Education the sum of [Blank Space] (or otherwise describe the gift or specify a percentage of the estate).

There are three ways you can make a bequest:

• Specific Bequest
  You designate a specific dollar amount, specific percentage, or specific property to Challenger Center.
• Residual Bequest
  Your estate will pay all debts, taxes, expenses, and specific bequests. The remaining amount—the residue—will be transferred to Challenger Center.
• Contingent Bequest
  You can state that Challenger Center receives all or a portion of your estate only under certain circumstances. For example, you can name Challenger Center as a beneficiary of your estate only if there are no surviving close family members. Childless couples sometimes provide for the entire estate to go to the surviving spouse, or if the spouse does not survive, to Challenger Center.

Additional Information

If you are interested in including Challenger Center in your will and would like additional information, please contact Donald Coates, Development Director.

Challenger Center for Space Science Education
ATTN: Donald Coates
1250 North Pitt Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

(888) 683-9740 or direct at (703) 683-9740

giving@challenger.org