How to Support UUFC
Donations
- Mail Check: Make checks payable to UUFC and mail your check to UUFC, P.O. Box 622, Chautauqua, NY 14722.
- Donate online: Click here to donate online.
We will assume your donation is meant for the operating budget for the Fellowship, unless you indicate it is for the operating budget for the Denominational House.
Planned Giving: Edward Everett Hale Legacy Fund
Edward Everett Hale was born in Boston in 1822 to a family of many famous intellectuals. He graduated from Harvard at 17 and went on to found the Unitarian Church of America. In his later years, he was appointed Chaplain of the United States Senate.
Biographies of Hale praise his support for the Chautauqua educational system and for the Mohonk International Peace and Arbitration movement. Teddy Roosevelt’s own words about Hale were “an American of whose life all good Americans are proud.” Hale died in 1909 and Samuel Clemens eloquently mourned his loss.
Dr. Hale was an important Chautauquan. He often delivered lectures, made CLSC recognition day talks and wrote CLSC books. Hale was exactly what the founders of Chautauqua favored: He was a well-known, non-denominational advocate of a better life in the service of mankind. In a story written in 1870 and well known to both Lewis Miller and John Vincent, Rev. Hale wrote, “Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.” This motto was the basis for the formation of Lend-a-Hand Club, Look – up Legions and clubs for young people. Hale was instrumental in establishing a Unitarian House at Chautauqua in 1906 which continued until 1962 when it was sold by the Unitarian Universalist Association.
The Edward Everett Hale Legacy Society has been established to honor Hale’s long-range vision through encouraging planned estate gifts to the Fellowship. All those who notify the Fellowship that they have finalized their planned gift in a legal document will become members of the Society and be recognized annually by the Fellowship.
Biographies of Hale praise his support for the Chautauqua educational system and for the Mohonk International Peace and Arbitration movement. Teddy Roosevelt’s own words about Hale were “an American of whose life all good Americans are proud.” Hale died in 1909 and Samuel Clemens eloquently mourned his loss.
Dr. Hale was an important Chautauquan. He often delivered lectures, made CLSC recognition day talks and wrote CLSC books. Hale was exactly what the founders of Chautauqua favored: He was a well-known, non-denominational advocate of a better life in the service of mankind. In a story written in 1870 and well known to both Lewis Miller and John Vincent, Rev. Hale wrote, “Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.” This motto was the basis for the formation of Lend-a-Hand Club, Look – up Legions and clubs for young people. Hale was instrumental in establishing a Unitarian House at Chautauqua in 1906 which continued until 1962 when it was sold by the Unitarian Universalist Association.
The Edward Everett Hale Legacy Society has been established to honor Hale’s long-range vision through encouraging planned estate gifts to the Fellowship. All those who notify the Fellowship that they have finalized their planned gift in a legal document will become members of the Society and be recognized annually by the Fellowship.
Examples of estate planning documents in which planned giving provisions are typically used:
- A bequest to the Fellowship in your will.
- A life insurance policy or an annuity naming the Fellowship as a beneficiary.
- An IRA that names the Fellowship as a beneficiary.
- A Charitable Remainder Trust or a Charitable Lead Trust that names the Fellowship as a beneficiary.
