Planned Giving
Give a gift of Legacy. Your legacy is our future. Leaving a gift to JSAAHC through your financial or estate plans, ensures our next generation can partake in the exceptional cultural experiences and impactful programs that you value today.
There are many ways you can arrange an estate gift to help ensure that the Jefferson School will continue long into the future. Here are some planned gift ideas to consider and discuss with your financial advisor:
- You can transfer stocks and mutual funds to the Heritage Center.
- You can include the Heritage Center in your will or living trust.
- You can name the Heritage Center as a beneficiary on your life insurance.
- Retirement plan assets and IRAs: make a no-cost gift and avoid double taxation.
Work with your financial advisor to learn more about using these charitable planning vehicles to support JSAAHC. We are also happy to assist you. Need assistance? Contact us at 434-260-8724 x303 or advancement@jeffschoolheritagecenter.org.
The Center for Local Knowledge
As the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center celebrates our 10th year we’re excited to announce a reorganization. We are launching the Center for Local Knowledge.
With the Center for Local Knowledge the JSAAHC is combining the best parts of our community’s local history and genealogical research with the wealth of our region’s oral histories and justice-oriented reparative activism.
“We want to re-establish African American communities within the social spaces of Charlottesville’s historical narrative by lifting up both public and cultural histories,” said JSAAHC Executive Director Dr. Andrea Douglas. “We aim to activate this information and to give those who have worked to build Charlottesville and the surrounding regions of Central Virginia their due.”
At the heart of the Center for Local Knowledge is a Community Advisory Committee made up of local Black residents whose families are rooted in this history. Representing every Black neighborhood, past and present, the Committee guides and determines the Center for Local Knowledge’s priorities and helps the JSAAHC identify the most pressing community needs.
This Committee will disrupt traditionally extractive models of history-telling by repositioning power, agency, and authority within the hands of the people who have lived, and continue to live, this history. Together, they will determine what community narratives we prioritize and hold at the core of our historical interpretation.
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