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Types of Donations
Whether you’d like to make a one-time donation now or create a legacy donation for the future, we have options to suit your preferences.
Donate Now
Sometimes a one-time donation is the perfect plan. Every donation helps us at Wintergreen. Make it on behalf of a friend or a loved one, if you like. Or make it to support a project that you believe in (like the bees!). And Canada Helps will immediately issue you a charitable tax receipt.
“Wintergreen has inspired and uplifted us by delighting our senses, feeding our minds, and nourishing our souls. It has given us so much, and it is a privilege to be able to give back.”
- Peter Coffman and Diane Laundy, regular one-time donors
Donate Monthly
Monthly donations are a bit like stopping for a coffee. You hardly notice the cost, yet it adds up over time. Monthly donations are wonderful for Wintergreen, because it means we know in advance that a gift is coming our way. A small monthly gift—say, $10—really adds up. In five years it becomes $600, and that's substantial.
“Wintergreen is a biodiversity reserve of remarkable beauty and importance, a real gem in Southeastern Ontario. But beyond that, it is also a passionate community of volunteers who love nature and seek to promote the values of conservation and sustainability. By supporting Wintergreen, we are helping to protect our natural heritage for the future—and helping our children to discover the joy of nature.”
- Birgit Scheichl and David Murphy Haglund, monthly donors
Donate a Legacy
Legacy gifts—whether you name Wintergreen in your will or purchase a life insurance plan—are an extraordinary way of showing your appreciation of Wintergreen. Life insurance plans have financial benefits both for you and for Wintergreen. Premiums can be paid over a fixed period (say, 8 years) and then the policy cash value grows over time. And those premiums are all eligible for charitable tax receipts.
“I believe in Wintergreen's mission and I want to continue to nourish Wintergreen after my death. By purchasing a life insurance policy with Wintergreen as the named beneficiary, I can do just that. And the return on investment is amazing: at the very minimum, every dollar I spend becomes three dollars for Wintergreen. And if I live to 90 (which I plan to do!), that amount doubles. Who could resist the magic of turning one dollar into six?”
- Rena Upitis, legacy donor
Donate Securities
If you own securities or mutual funds, you can make a direct donation of shares to Wintergreen through Canada Helps. By doing this, capital gains tax is eliminated and a charitable tax receipt for the full market value of the shares will be issued to you upon completion of the sale. Click below to link to the CanadaHelps securities page; search Wintergreen Studios for your donation.
“Sustainable living is about imagining the world you wish to create and then behaving as if it were already here. That's what I am doing when I donate to Wintergreen.”
- Susan Wismer, shares donor
“Wintergreen is a cultural space among forest, fields, rocks and ponds: a place of peace, integrity, breakthrough and hope, a model of how to survive and thrive in body and spirit. I have attended workshops and events there in which we participants have felt the outside world’s prickly minutiae melt away in an honest, holistic pursuit of possibility in arts and literature, earth science and tech science. I donate happily! I wish I could donate more! There is no price that could cover a moment of reflection that lifts you far, but not too far, from a magical foothold in the labyrinth or a step on the little bridge over a stream-trickle from the beaver dam.”
- Callista Markotich, volunteer, workshop participant, donor
Wintergreen Studios is a Canadian Registered Charity.
Charitable Registration No. 834231417 RR00001
