Ways To Give

MCC is fortunate to have many loyal and caring friends. People do make a difference. Each year, thousands of individuals, corporations, foundations, and organizations support MCC financially through a wide range of contributions. Your gifts support tradition as well as innovation and help keep MCC at the forefront of workforce development and higher education. Be a changemaker by designating your gift for a specific area of interest or for the general purposes of MCC. Find out how MCC can best put your gift to work strengthening operations, scholarships, matching grants, capital improvements, faculty and staff development, the resource library, technology improvement, curriculum development, and much more.

Securing the funding for new initiatives is essential as MCC moves into the next 35-years of existence. Here are just a few ways that different kinds of gifts are working to help MCC excel:

  • Gifts of Cash

    The easiest way to give, cash gifts, offers a tax deduction for the full amount of the gift in the year it is made. Cash gifts may be made via U.S. currency, check, MasterCard or Visa and PayPal on our website. You can also make a pledge which may be paid in installments throughout the year. Checks should be made payable to Metropolitan Career Center.

  • Matching Gifts
    Often your personal donation can also be matched by your company through a Matching Gift Program. This doubles or triples the value of your gift. Matching Gift forms are usually available though your company's Human Resource Department. Retires and spouses are often eligible for gift matching as well.
  • Publicly Traded Stocks or Securities

    Much like cash, gifts of stock are tax deductible at full fair market value. The donor is not taxed on long-term capital appreciation.

  • Gifts of Savings Bonds

    Savings Bonds represent major assets that may have stopped growing and are now forgotten in a bank box and waiting to be used for a good purpose. Why not put it to work as a gift to MCC.

  • Gifts of Real Estate

    Much like gifts of stock, a gift of real estate is tax deductible at full fair market value. The donor is not taxed on long-term capital appreciation.

  • Gifts of Personal Property

    Assets related to MCC (books, art works, scientific or historical collections, etc.) generate tax deductions equal to the fair market value of the gift. Gifts of property unrelated to the school's purpose are deductible on the basis of their cost to the donor.

  • Gifts of Life Insurance

    Life insurance policies allow donors to make significant gifts to Metropolitan Career Center. The policy may name the school either as beneficiary or as owner of the policy.

  • Gifts of Bequest by Will

    Bequests may be made of entire or partial estates after other inheritance intentions are honored. They allow the donor to avoid estate and inheritance taxes while retaining lifetime use of their assets.

  • Tribute Gifts

    Honoring a loved one through a charitable gift is an especially meaningful way of paying tribute to someone special. When you want to express condolences or congratulations you may wish to consider a tribute gift to MCC.

    Tribute gifts may commemorate a special event in your family's life – a birthday, anniversary, wedding, or retirement. It is also an appropriate memorial for someone who passed away and you want to leave a legacy in their honor.

    Your tribute gift will be acknowledged to the person or family that you designate at the time of your gift. They will receive a card with the name of the person who is honored or memorialized, identifying you as the donor. The amount of the donation is not revealed to the honoree or the family. You will receive an acknowledgement for your tax-deductible contribution.

  • Charitable Gift Annuity

    This gift of cash or other assets pays a fixed percentage of its value as lifetime income to the donor. The gift guarantees a fixed annual income, as well as an immediate tax deduction on the gift.

  • Charitable Remainder Trusts

    The trust, funded with cash or other assets, pays a fixed annual income (annuity trust) or annual percentage payout of the value of the trust assets (unitrust). Upon maturity, the trust assets revert to Metropolitan Career Center. A tax deduction is immediate, based on rate of return and projected life expectancy of the beneficiary. The trust is not subject to probate or estate taxes.