Donate
Help support our good work.
Your donation to Island Prostate Centre creates an immediate and lasting impact. It ensures that men and families across Vancouver Island have access to compassionate support, individualized navigation services, and trusted education as they face prostate cancer. Your generosity helps us expand our programs, strengthen our community outreach, and continue providing care that ensures no one faces prostate cancer alone.
Charitable Will Bequests
Leave a Lasting Legacy
A charitable will bequest is a meaningful way to support Island Prostate Centre and ensure that men and families across Vancouver Island continue to receive compassionate care, education, and navigation services for generations to come.
Why Choose a Charitable Will Bequest?
- Tax Benefits: Reduce your estate’s tax burden by leaving a charitable gift to Island Prostate Centre.
- Flexibility: You can update or change your will at any time.
- Privacy: Your intentions remain private until after your passing.
- Your Current Income Is Not Impacted: Your day‑to‑day finances remain untouched during your lifetime.
How to Make a Bequest
Simply include a sentence or two in your will naming the Capital Region Prostate Centre (DBA Island Prostate Centre) as a beneficiary. Your legal or financial advisor can help you choose the wording that best reflects your wishes.
For more information, speak with your financial or legal advisor. They can help you create a will that supports your values and strengthens care for men facing prostate cancer.
Donate Stocks
Support Prostate Cancer care on Vancouver Island
Donating appreciated stocks, mutual funds, or other eligible securities to Island Prostate Centre is a powerful way to make a meaningful impact while receiving valuable tax benefits. When you donate publicly traded securities directly, the capital gains tax is eliminated, allowing you to give more at no additional cost to you.
Speak with your financial advisor for more information on how a gift of securities can support compassionate care, education, and navigation services for men facing prostate cancer.
Your gift strengthens care in our community and ensures that no one faces prostate cancer alone.
RRIF or RRSP Donations
Donate from your Retirement Savings
You can name Island Prostate Centre as a beneficiary of your RRSP or RRIF. This means that Island Prostate Centre will receive the remaining funds when you pass away, helping support compassionate care, education, and navigation services for men facing prostate cancer across Vancouver Island.
Tax Benefits: Your estate may claim a tax deduction for the donation.
Flexibility: You can continue using your retirement savings throughout your lifetime and change your beneficiary designation at any time.
Talk to your financial advisor for more information.
Together, we can create a legacy of care and ensure that no one faces prostate cancer alone.
Charitable Gift Annuities
A Win-Win
A charitable gift annuity is a meaningful way to support Island Prostate Centre while also receiving financial benefits. With this type of planned gift, you receive a tax receipt now and enjoy regular, dependable income payments for life. This option is especially beneficial for people aged 70 and older who want to make a lasting impact while maintaining financial stability.
Want to Learn More?
Talk to your financial advisor to understand how a charitable gift annuity could work within your financial and philanthropic goals.
Together, we can explore whether this option is the right fit for you—and help ensure that no one faces prostate cancer alone.
Need assistance with your donation? We’re here to help.
Please contact Leanne Kopp, Executive Director
leannekopp@islandprostatecentre.com, or call (250) 388-0214.