Planned Giving at Ella Baker Center
Imagine a future where everyone has the freedom to thrive. For the past 25 years, Ella Baker Center (EBC) has worked to make this a reality.
A planned gift to Ella Baker Center will transform your resources into a lasting, positive reinvestment in local communities, and will support our continued advocacy efforts, as we work to shift resources towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Ella Baker Center is named after a brilliant, Black hero of the civil rights movement.
We believe the best way to honor Ms. Baker’s legacy is to inspire people to imagine new possibilities, lead with solutions, and engage communities to drive positive change.
At EBC, we build the power of Black, Brown, and poor people to create solutions for some of the biggest drivers of injustice today: policing and prisons.
Ask your attorney or estate planner about adding EBC to your planned giving.
Resources and Information
Legal Name: The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
TAX ID/EIN: 94-3252009
Address: 1419 34th Ave, Suite 202, Oakland, CA 94601
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) is recognized as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Join us to keep Ella’s story going.
Ways to plan your giving to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Planned Giving is a simple and effective way to keep your story going for generations to come.
Talk to your attorney or estate planner about planning your gift to the Ella Baker Center.
Name EBC in your will or trust:
Ask your attorney or estate planner about adding EBC to your will or living trust. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Name EBC in your retirement plan assets:
Using retirement plan assets to fulfill your charitable legacy is a simple and advantageous way to support the Ella Baker Center, as other options may be heavily taxed.
Name EBC in your life insurance policy:
Another simple asset to give is a gift of life insurance, naming EBC as a full or partial beneficiary, or donating a paid-up policy outright. All of these options are tax deductible.
More ways to give:
There are many more ways to plan your giving, such as charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, qualified charitable distributions, and more. All of these options are tax deductible.
Already included EBC in your estate plan? Let us know!
If you have already made a gift to the Ella Baker Center, please let us know by completing this form or contacting us at (510) 285-8238. We would like to thank you and welcome you into Ella’s Legacy Circle. By letting us know, we can ensure that we fulfill your gift as you intended.
Information you share will be kept confidential and we respect any desire to remain anonymous.
To learn more:
Please contact Ash Lynette,
Development Director at EBC.
ash@ellabakercenter.org
510.285.8238
“There are at least three reasons underlying my decision to establish a bequest in my will for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. The first is that the Center works on issues that matter deeply to me. The second is that EBC is a well-run organization, powered by an experienced, skillful staff team and supported by an engaged set of partners at the Board level. The third reason is that in its approach to its mission and day-to-day work, the EBC staff and board team know we cannot win alone.”
– Holly Delany Cole, Board Chair
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There are at least three reasons underlying my decision to establish a bequest in my will for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.
The first is that the Center works on issues that matter deeply to me. Its organizational mission aligns with my own personal one – to bring about a state, a country, and a world, in which deep and continuous investments in people in their communities is the regular practice. And, moreover, that these powerful investments in people and communities are made possible by shifting them away from the current sprawling systems of incarceration and policing. In my view current systems are misguided, damaging, and poor responses to the dilemmas we face as human beings living together. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights supports an evolved vision, thinking and practice about what is possible and necessary for us All to thrive.
The second is that the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a well-run organization, powered by an experienced, skillful staff team and supported by an engaged set of partners at the Board level. I joined the Center as a member in 2016, volunteering in different capacities with various staff members, across a range of projects including community events, prison in-reach, fundraising efforts, and policy advocacy work. To a person, and over the years, every staff member I encountered has carried out their work with integrity and skill. I’ve learned a great deal from them all. The Center’s Board acts with the appropriate level of engagement, supporting leadership to strong mission alignment and responsible financial stewardship. They authentically partner with the staff leadership to plan powerful futures or resolve issues, as useful and as needed.
The third reason is that in its approach to its mission and day-to-day work, the Ella Baker Center staff and board team know we cannot win alone. It consistently works in collaboration and partnership with other organizations in the sector, with local and state legislators who share our policy agenda, and with foundations and individual donors who are with us in this vision. It shares credit, it shares the work.
I know that by the time this bequest passes to the Center, the issues we face around this work to achieve a more abundant, liberatory vision of community supports will look different, I’m confident that the Center’s work will have evolved as well and is meeting the moment. That has been their practice for over 25 years of their history thus far.
I am profoundly grateful to the staff and Board teams, partners, funders and donors of the Ella Baker Center because we are working well together to move closer to what should be true. As author Alice Walker has urged us to consider, ‘We are the ones we’ve been waiting for’. Indeed!