Thank you for donating to STAR Programs, Inc!
 
Below are six options of how you can make a monetary donation:

• Mail a check payable to STAR Programs, Inc.:
    STAR Programs, Inc.
    Attn: Donor Records
    3071 Payne Ave.
    San Jose, CA 95128
   
• Sponsor A Child
• Sponsor A Family
• Estate & Planned Giving
• Donate using your PayPal account

If you have any questions, please email starpro@sbcglobal.net for more information.

Sponsor A Child — $35/month ($420/year)
This gift helps to provide an abused child with food, clothing and a home. Your card will automatically billed each month.
 
Support A Family — $80/month ($960/year)
This gift helps us reach out to at-risk families to provide counseling and in-home family support. Your card will automatically billed each month.

 
What Is Sponsoring A Child?
Child sponsorship is just $35 per month or $420 per year. This gift helps to provide an abused child with food, clothing and a home. It provides a child with hope for the future through programs that offer:

• safety and security from their abusive past
• a family-like setting in which to learn, heal, and grow
• personal and group counseling to help heal and break the cycle of child abuse
• individualized attention to help children develop confidence and bring about lasting change

Sponsor one, or make a commitment to sponsor several. By enrolling today, you'll be connected with an organization that has been serving and caring for children and teens for nearly 30 years.
 
What Is Supporting A Family?
Family support is just $80 per month or $960 per year. This gift helps us reach out to our foster families and/or residential care homes to provide needed services and support.
 
Support one, or make a commitment to support several. By enrolling today, you'll be connected with an organization that has been serving and caring for children and teens for nearly 30 years.
 
Estate & Planned Giving
Your generous donation creates a legacy of assets from major gifts, life income programs, and trust and estate gifts.
 
While focusing on the needs of our STAR Programs, Inc. donors, we help establish a legacy program for all STAR Programs or focus on specific programs and services that make the difference in the lives of abused, abandoned and neglected children and their families in our community.
 
Benefits of a Life Income Trust…
A life income trust is created by transferring the ownership of cash, securities or property into your trust. Thereafter, for life or for a predetermined length of time, the trust will provide income either to you or your beneficiary at least once a year. When the trust expires, usually at the end of your life or your beneficiary's life, the principal passes to STAR Programs. A life income trust is an excellent choice for highly-appreciated assets that produce little income.
 
Tax Deduction:
This deduction is based on the market value of the gift, the beneficiary's age and the trust's annual income, with current tax laws determining the amount.
 
No Capital Gains Tax:
By depositing appreciated assets into this trust, you may avoid capital gains taxation.
 
Increased Income:
The trust may create additional life income for you.
 
Estate Tax Savings:
Life income trusts can provide for your needs during your lifetime and, with the future gift to STAR Programs can reduce estate taxes.
 
Tax-Free Income:
To qualify, the trust must be deposited with California Municipal bonds or with cash that could be used to purchase tax-free bonds.
 
Annual Income:
Income is available at either a fixed or variable rate, depending upon your needs.
 
Benefits of a Bequest…
A bequest is a gift passed down through a will or living trust. It entitles you to an estate tax deduction equal to the amount of the gift, thus reducing your taxable estate.
 
Estate Tax Deduction:
To encourage you to make a bequest to a charitable cause such as STAR Programs, the Federal Estate Tax Regulations place no limit on the amount of your estate tax deduction for qualifying gifts.
 
Personal Control:
Whatever the size of your estate, a bequest allows you to decide how your assets will be disbursed after your lifetime. Making a charitable gift to STAR Programs, through a bequest may also reduce probate costs and increase the assets you leave your loved ones.
 
Benefits of a Living Trust…
Lawyers call a living trust an inter vivo trust, meaning “a trust that takes effect during the donor's lifetime." With such a written agreement, you choose someone who has your confidence as a Trustee. This Trustee may be you, your spouse or anyone else you choose.
 
Avoid Probate:
Probates are usually unnecessary, but not in all cases. Because the assets in your living trust are omitted from probate, your family will spend less time and expense.
 
Financial Security for you and your family:
You may leave STAR Programs, a specific dollar amount or percentage of the trust and arrange for the remainder to be distributed among your beneficiaries.
 
Security during illness:
If you become ill and cannot handle your affairs, your Successor Trustee may oversee your assets and pay your bills.
 
Privacy:
The public and the press have no legal access to private information about your assets placed in a living trust.
 
Flexibility:
Living trusts are changeable and fully revocable.
 
Personal Control:
You may choose to retain control over your living trust by instructing the Trustee to consult you about investment changes. If you wish, you may serve as your own Trustee.
 
Professional Management:
If you so choose, you may select a professional money manager who can see to the investment of your assets.
 
Estate Tax Savings:
Using a living trust can provide a future gift to the children and families of STAR Programs, and may reduce or eliminate estate taxes, while providing for your needs and that of your family during your lifetime.