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	You are here: Home → Support MEIC → Endowment and Bequest Gifts Document Actions Endowment and Bequest Gifts Leave a Legacy to MEIC More than a decade ago MEIC established the Permanent Fund as its endowment—to help us protect and restore Montana’s natural environment now and in the years to come. An endowment provides the financial security and long-term stability needed to weather unpredictable and cyclical funding. All gifts to the Permanent Fund are invested. Only the income earned on these investments is spent, and all of it goes to MEIC. Here are two ways you can contribute to MEIC’s endowment: The Permanent Fund accepts cash or property, including stock, real estate, and life insurance. These contributions can be made directly to MEIC and are deductible as charitable contributions. MEIC now has an endowment account with the Montana Community Foundation, which greatly expands the ways you can help MEIC while taking advantage of a Montana State income tax credit. You must use one of a specified number of planned giving techniques, including charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, and pooled income trust funds. Call the Montana Community Foundation directly at 406-443-8313 for more information. We believe that MEIC’s future is worth securing! If you would like to receive more information about the Permanent Fund, please call Sara Marino at 406-443-2520 or e-mail her at smarino@meic.org. Montana Environmental Information Center Street Address: 107 W Lawrence St. #N-6, Helena, MT 59601 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1184 Helena, MT 59624 Phone: (406) 443-2520, Fax: (406) 443-2507, meic@meic.org	Stay Connected Facebook Twitter Blog YouTube Overheard... (Letter in the Billings Gazette, 2/15/09) I am deeply grateful to the Montana Environmental Information Center and local activists for stopping the Highwood Generating Station near Great Falls. Building a coal-fired power plant now, when global warming is threatening not only the environment but the entire agricultural economy of Montana, would have been a horrible mistake for Montana. Unless the carbon emissions are appropriately sequestered, coal is simply an obsolete fuel. We cannot use it. Global warming is not a myth, it is real, and it could cause an enormous amount of harm to Montana's environment and agricultural economy. Whether or not precipitation declines, the expected increase in temperature from carbon dioxide emissions will make our climate much more arid. Winters will be shorter, spring runoff will come sooner, the fire season will be longer, and farmers will find it harder to grow a profitable yield. Every farm and ranch in Montana is truly threatened by global warming. We all could go broke because of it. People who say that developing coal is good for the economy are ignoring science and denying reality. The best thing for the economy is not only to stop new coal plants but shut down existing ones, replacing them with something that will help our economy: windmills. Let's start with the Mount Everest of carbon emissions in Montana, Colstrip. MEIC and the local activists did the right thing for Montana. We should all be grateful to them. ~ Wade Sikorski, Baker MT

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