Annual Report 2018 EuroNatur Foundation
Here you can get a good overview about our conservation programmes in Europe. Conatains also financial information.
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How your legacy can do good<br />
Photo: Kerstin Sauer - elephant seal (M. angustirostris), Spitzbergen<br />
A testament for European nature<br />
We are now living through the biggest mass<br />
extinction since the dinosaur age, and climate<br />
change has become reality. But the political arena,<br />
the business world, and society lack the resolve to<br />
reverse these trends. It is therefore all the more<br />
important for individuals to provide a counterbalance,<br />
to assume responsibility and help shape<br />
the world’s future, even beyond their own death.<br />
Testamentary gifts and legacy bequests to<br />
<strong>EuroNatur</strong> support the organization’s longterm<br />
planning of project activities designed to<br />
maintain Europe’s natural heritage. Your assets<br />
help us to maintain a Europe that offers genuine<br />
quality of life, where there are free-flowing<br />
rivers, pristine forests, diverse cultural landscapes,<br />
and sufficient space for wildlife.<br />
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Testamentary gifts will not burn away in one-off activities.<br />
Instead, they will lay a solid foundation for effective nature<br />
conservation and thus generate far-reaching prospects<br />
for people and nature. Financial support of this nature<br />
has significantly strengthened the <strong>Foundation</strong>’s financial<br />
asset base over the past three decades. <strong>EuroNatur</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong>,<br />
as a non-profit foundation, is exempt from<br />
inheritance tax and gift tax. Any gifted or bequeathed<br />
assets can therefore be devoted exclusively to the pursuit<br />
of the <strong>Foundation</strong>’s objectives.<br />
Questions surrounding the issue of charitable bequests are<br />
answered on the www.mein-erbe-tut-gutes.de platform.<br />
<strong>EuroNatur</strong> has already been a member of the “Mein Erbe<br />
tut Gutes” (‘My Legacy Does Good) initiative for four years<br />
now. A total of 22 organizations currently participate in this<br />
initiative – all are non-profits. As a neutral platform offering<br />
information and inspiration, the initiative aims to support<br />
people in their endeavour to use their estate to pass on their<br />
own values. It offers advice and guidance to potential testators<br />
as to how they can actively frame their will to this end<br />
and shows how testamentary gifts and legacy bequests sustainably<br />
safeguard the successful work of charitable organizations.<br />
In order to be able to offer independent legal advice,<br />
the initiative cooperates with the Deutsche Vereinigung für<br />
Erbrecht und Vermögensnachfolge e.V. (a German paralegal<br />
association for inheritance law and asset succession).<br />
Are you too thinking about considering <strong>EuroNatur</strong> in your<br />
will? If you would like to find out more about this issue<br />
please get in touch with us. Your contact:<br />
Sabine Günther, Tel.: +49 (0)7732-927217.
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