Legacy Stories
Why we participate in planned giving by Col. Jean M. Migliorino (USAF, Ret) and Lt. Col. Phillip J. Piccione (USAF, Ret)
Planned giving is a wonderful means to help others help themselves and strengthen their dignity and self worth. Whether it is education, social services, health, youth, the arts, or another area in which you are most interested, you can help those organizations through planned giving.
After retirement from the Air Force, we moved to San Antonio and decided to make it our permanent home. With that decision came an increased desire to strengthen our local charitable efforts. While we continued charitable participation in our home states of Pennsylvania and Louisiana, we increased our efforts in San Antonio to include planned giving, endowments and smaller gifts.
We are blessed and it gives us joy to share our blessings. We found that planned giving is a continuous lifetime process of giving small amounts when one is young, more as one matures and, finally, the most generous gifts when one realizes the abundant blessings of life.
Saving Lives
Young Chloe Clifton is an energetic 7 year-old who made all A’s last year in school. She most enjoys running and playing with her friends, and today, you would never know that Chloe was born almost two months premature and weighed only 1 pound 9 ounces. Her story, complete with the brightest of futures, began decades ago with a generous bequest and other voluntary support that enabled medical research to be carried out for the treatment of lung diseases in the premature infant. Each year in the United States alone, more than 40,000 babies are born premature. For the donors who made a gift through a bequest instrument, their legacy lives on with each story like Chloe’s.