Ways to Give

Your gift helps keep rivers flowing



How? Through our strategic grantmaking, you are helping communities clean rivers up and create more equitable access to them—through boat ramps, education and hiking trails.


Forever Our Rivers also helps improve degraded habitats by removing invasive trees and replanting landscapes along rivers and streams with willows, cottonwoods and other native species. Other efforts focus on stream restoration and upstream forest management.

Join or Renew

Share Your Love of Rivers

 

Dedicate your donation in honor or memory of someone special today—or make a gift membership­—to protect and restore rivers for generations to come.

 

Click on “Dedicate my donation in honor or memory” to enter the recipient’s information–even if you are giving a membership gift. Also, for gift memberships, please be sure to enter the recipient’s address so we can send them a membership welcome packet. 


Give Monthly

Join the Recurring Giving Program!

 

You can make a difference helping us address the most pressing issues in the Southwest: drought, wildfire and wildfire habitat loss, and ensuring access to rivers for all. Your recurring contribution provides the resources and stability to protect precious streams and rivers. Become a Forever Our Rivers monthly donor today by donating a monthly amount that is meaningful to you.


Leadership Giving

The Time to Act is Now


Your leadership gift of $1,000 or more enables Forever Our Rivers to have a big impact in rivers, from the headwaters to ephemeral desert streams. 

 

To have the most impact, please send a check, stock gift or donor-advised fund gift to Forever Our Rivers, attn: Ann Johnston, executive director, 115 Whiterock Avenue #1952, Crested Butte, CO or reach her directly at 970.275.9712 to discuss your gift. Forever Our Rivers taxpayer identification number is 99-1563-135.

 

Your leadership gift enables Forever Our Rivers to operate on the scale needed to protect the beautiful wild rivers of the Southwest. 

Donate Stock

Making a gift of appreciated stocks, bonds and mutual fund shares is an easy and powerful way to contribute to river conservation. Benefits included income and capital gain tax savings. 


The first step to making a stock donation is to contact Ann Johnston at ann@foreverourrivers.org  or 970.275.9712 . Please let her know the name of the security and the number of shares to be donated so we can anticipate and acknowledge your gift. A phone call, voicemail or email works well. This important step helps us ensure that we process your gift according to your intent. 


For instructions for your broker—including Forever Our Rivers Broker and DTC#, please download the form below.



Bequest

The most common way people remember Forever Our Rivers in a will or living trust is with a charitable bequest. You do not have to rewrite your current documents. You simply add an amendment, called a codicil, to your will or living trust. Here is some suggested language you can have your attorney review:

 

“I give, devise and bequeath to Forever Our Rivers (Tax ID 99-1563-135) headquartered in Grand Junction, Colorado, the sum of _____ dollars, or state a percentage of your estate, or describe real or personal property (include exact location) for the benefit of its mission”. 

 

Your bequest is entirely under your control during your life and becomes irrevocable only at your death. If you have questions about bequests, please work with your financial advisor or contact Ann Johnston, executive director of Forever Our Rivers at 970.275.9712 or ann@foreverourrivers.org. 

Life Estate

Have a home along a river? What about a home somewhere else? Do you know what you want to do with that real estate once you and your family are gone?

 

By donating a life estate, you will be able to transfer ownership of real estate to Forever Our Rivers while maintaining the right to use the property and buildings until the end of your and your spouse’s life. 

 

In exchange, you receive an immediate tax deduction, and Forever Our Rivers will be able to protect the conservation aspects of your real estate or sell the property to support other conservation efforts after your death.

 

If you would like more information regarding donating a life estate, or if you have any questions, please call Ann Johnston, executive director, at 970.275.9712 or email her at ann@foreverourrivers.org.