Plan Your Gift

Your planned gift to Cleveland Metroparks is a personal way for you to serve as a steward of the region’s natural landscape. By including Cleveland Metroparks in your estate plans through one of the following ways, you can help preserve and expand the Emerald Necklace while you secure your own financial future:

Gift planning benefits both you and Cleveland Metroparks. You receive the satisfaction of knowing that your gift furthers conservation and education for future generations.  An additional benefit may be substantial tax savings, proportionate to the size of the gift. Cleveland Metroparks benefits from additional financial resources to continue and expand its high standard of excellence in conservation and education. For example:

  • Your gift in a will may help to reduce estate taxes and provide children with first-hand nature experiences offered at your favorite nature center.
  • A charitable remainder trust provides income for you now and helps Cleveland Metroparks acquire additional land in the future.
  • The remainder of your IRA account may add scenic miles to Cleveland Metroparks trails and prevents it from becoming a liability to your estate.

Your gift may be planned without restrictions or specified for one of Cleveland Metroparks programs or locations that is personally significant to you. All planned gifts provide donors with the opportunity to establish a permanent partnership with Cleveland Metroparks as an Emerald Necklace Fellow that creates an enduring legacy.

For more information on planned gifts, please contact Karen Kannenberg, CFRE, at [email protected] or 216-635-3217.

Emerald Necklace Fellows

Cleveland Metroparks recognizes and honors those who serve as stewards of Cleveland Metroparks by including Cleveland Metroparks or the Emerald Necklace Endowment Fund in their estate plan. Emerald Necklace Fellows are invited to special donor events throughout the and are recognized accordingly.

If you have already included Cleveland Metroparks in your estate plan, we would like to recognize you as an Emerald Necklace Fellow.  Please contact Karen Kannenberg, CFRE, principal giving director, at 216-635-3217 or [email protected].