Legacy Heart Club

What is Your Legacy?
You can plan now to make an investment that will continue to help people in need forever.  Making a planned gift is the best way to ensure your dreams for the community are not left to chance.  Whether you intend to make a gift now or in the future, your Sioux Empire United Way in partnership with the Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation offers a variety of Planned Giving options to meet the charitable and financial objectives that are important to you.

We will be here forever.
Sioux Empire United Way has been supporting our community since 1929.  We have a long and successful history of providing leadership and support for services provided by local non-profit agencies.  Our position as a community solutions provider and proactive problem solver ensures an important community role far into the future.

Uses of Endowments
Income from planned gifts will enable us to raise more funds and therefore help more people through initiatives, grants, and ongoing funding of services provided by our member agencies.

By using income from endowed gifts, Sioux Empire United Way will have a constant source of income.  This may help offset declines in any giving area when a particular segment of our population is adversely affected by negative economic conditions.

There are many unmet needs in our community because of lack of funding. 

Giving Options
To learn more about the available giving options for Sioux Empire United Way's Legacy Heart Club, click here or to express interest in learning more, use this form to provide United Way your contact information.

You Are Investing in the Future
Leaving a legacy gift and endowing your annual gift in a planned gift means you will be making a difference in your community forever. Your gift will continue giving back to your community every year.

For example, if you endowed your annual gift of $500 in a $10,000 planned gift in the next twenty years your legacy will provide:

• Four days of safe shelter at the Children’s Inn for a woman fleeing from a domestic violence situation.
• 77 lonely, isolated adults contact with the world outside their homes.
• Three months of adult day care to an at risk older adult.
• Four months of speech therapy for a child with hearing loss.
• 216 low-income children with computer lab assistance and 36 hours of childcare.
• 13 therapy sessions for an adolescent that was abused by a family member.
• Two mastectomy prosthesis for a breast cancer patient having had surgery.
• 144 families with a three to five day emergency supply of food.
• 25 weeks of full time before and after school care.
• Summer childcare assistance for eight struggling families.
• Five one year YMCA memberships for boys and girls four to eight years old.
• Counseling and play therapy for a family for an entire year.
• 80 students with summer camp field trips.
• 65 hours of mentoring.
• A cancer victim with medical rent for a hospital bed and bedside table for four months.
• Support 12 youth to successfully complete the Sioux Council’s Lincoln County Juvenile Diversion program.
• Income based care for disabled children.
• 210 meals-on-wheels to home bound older adults.
• 30 hours of advocacy for an abused and/or neglected child.
• 120 hours of encouragement and direction in the development of reading skills for over 800 elementary students.

Founding Members
In 2006, led by chairs Dan Kirby and Rich Garry, the Legacy Heart Club received committments from 35 individuals and couples for an estimated $5.6 million in expectancies.  The following community members are Sioux Empire United Way's Legacy Heart Club Founding Members.