Planned Giving
Estate Planning: Make a Plan to Support Your Lotus Center
The ongoing generosity of the people of our community helps to ensure the viability and sustainability of our community-owned, non-profit Lotus Center. In order to broaden our outreach and bring benefit to more people, raising additional funds above and beyond fees from classes is imperative. We continue to prove what we can accomplish together. So, as you contemplate what Lotus Center means to you, and to our community, we invite you to support of our ongoing mission of bringing peace and well-being to the people of our community, and around the globe . . .
Did you know that planned gifts/estate planning is another means through which you can ensure that Lotus Center will continue to serve our community for generations to come? With these legacies of generosity, Lotus can continue to provide a place and a presence through which we can help southwest New Mexico continue become a place of peace in our world.
A simple and straight-forward means of support can be to name Lotus Center as a beneficiary of your will and/or trust with a one-time gift of cash or other asset(s) to be disbursed upon the settlement of your estate.
An equally-meaningful and straight-forward means of support is a Transfer on Death (TOD) Affidavit which permits the direct transfer of real property to the designated beneficiary or beneficiaries upon the death of the owner, thus avoiding Probate administration.
Most stock brokerage firms have standard TOD affidavit forms available upon request. Other financial (e.g., bank account funds) and physical assets may be eligible for TOD Affidavits under New Mexico State law.
For help determining if your estate qualifies for bypassing probate, or for handling an estate in general, see The Executor’s Guide, by Mary Randolph, or Estate Planning Basics, by Denis Clifford.
Do you have questions about naming Lotus as a beneficiary of your will or trust? If so, please write us at PlannedGiving@LotusCenterSC.org.
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Come for an hour and a half of free form dance where you can groove however your body wants, by yourself or with others. Bare your soles (and soul), surrender to the music and let your movement be guided by your body’s wisdom. There are no wrong moves. Doors open at 10:30 AM; dance starts at 11:00.
Amita (Amy) Schmidt LCSW is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher. She was the resident teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts for six years and she was the co-founder of Southwest Sangha Retreat Center in San Lorenzo, New Mexico. She is the author of “Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master.” She currently practices and teaches meditation from a non-dual perspective.
Teresa is a New Mexico native and returned home to Grant County in 2000. She is a retired educator of 31 years. She taught eighteen years in Prescott Public Schools in AZ. After moving back to NM, she taught at Cliff Schools for 13 years. Her teaching career included high school and junior high school Health, Physical Education, and Family and Consumer Sciences classes. While teaching in Prescott, AZ, she also coached girls track and intramural sports, and sponsored the cheerleading squad.