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STARS Very Important Patient Kelly Waldron sits with her husband and daughters at a playground near their home.

Your Legacy Is Someone’s Best Hope

A legacy gift to STARS is a meaningful way to ensure your generosity continues to make a difference for years to come. By including STARS in your future plans, you help provide hope and life-saving care to patients across Western Canada when they need it most.

Legacy giving is a reflective process that takes time, careful thought, and above all, provides meaningful outcomes. These gifts can often be established without affecting your current financial circumstances and help ensure highly skilled crews and advanced medical care can reach patients in their most critical moments.

If STARS wasn’t here, I definitely wouldn’t be here. My parents wouldn’t have watched their daughter grow up. They wouldn’t have been grandparents.”
– Kelly Waldon, STARS Very Important Patient

Ways to build a legacy

There are several ways you can choose to include STARS in your legacy plans.

We recommend speaking with your financial advisor to find the giving option that best benefits you and supports STARS.

Bequests

A charitable bequest is a gift made through your will, allowing you to make a commitment without affecting your current financial situation. It is flexible and can be changed at any time during your lifetime. A bequest may also provide tax benefits for your estate, as charitable gifts are eligible for tax receipts that can help reduce taxable income in the year of death and the immediately preceding year.
Read why the Strauss family planned a bequest to STARS and why it means so much to them.
Learn more about drafting or updating your will.
Gift of Securities

A gift of securities allows you to donate investments such as stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, while receiving a charitable tax receipt for the fair market value of the gift.
The benefits of gifts of securities include the elimination of capital gains tax, which can lead to significant tax savings for donors.
Download the Transfer of Securities Form
Gift of Life Insurance

A gift of life insurance allows you to turn a new or existing policy into a meaningful charitable contribution. By naming STARS as the beneficiary or transferring ownership of a policy, you can make a significant future gift.
Depending on how the policy is structured, you may also be eligible for current or future tax benefits.
Learn how you can provide a gift of life insurance as your legacy.
Retirement Beneficiary

Naming STARS as a beneficiary of your retirement plan is another simple way to make a future charitable gift, at any stage of life. You can choose to designate STARS as the beneficiary of all or a portion of a registered retirement account, such as a RRSP, RRIF, or TFSA.
This type of gift can often be arranged through your workplace or financial institution by updating your beneficiary designation, and may also provide tax benefits for your estate.
Legacy Giving FAQs

Planned Giving – A Quick Guide

STARS Legal Name & Charity Number

The legal name for making a gift is to the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation. Our Registered Charity number is 81845 9521 RR0001

Your legacy gift helps save lives — and futures like Theo’s

Theo Konidas was out for a snowmobile ride with his siblings when a patch of ice led to a crash that nearly took his life. Time was of the essence, and STARS arrived quickly, providing life-saving care on board and getting him to the hospital in time.

See the difference your legacy gift to STARS can make for patients like Theo.