We welcome the opportunity to talk with you about your interest in the Center.
Please contact Betsy Wilson at 734.764.7291, or email, ecwilson@umich.edu
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Photo: Henry and Alice Landau
Alice Landau has had a life-long concern about the disadvantages that are a reality for many women. Along with her late husband, Henry, she has supported organizations that help promote education and the well being of women so that they may improve their lives and positively impact their futures. Through her personal friendship with Molly Dobson (a dedicated volunteer, Leadership Council member and financial supporter of the Center), Landau has become increasingly acquainted with the important work of the Center for the Education of Women that helps women achieve their goals. And it is the Center’s success in working with women and their specific concerns that inspired her to make a provision in her estate plan for a generous bequest to support the Center’s Counseling and Program Fund.
World War II interrupted the Landaus’ education in Poland. After emigrating to the United States, Henry founded a successful business building custom homes. In the early years, Alice Landau enjoyed working in her husband’s business, but eventually stayed home to raise their four children. With her children grown now, she is proud of their successes and delights in her many grandchildren.
Over the years, Alice Landau became more aware of the discrimination against women. She also knows that many women serve in two roles – they must raise their families while also working outside the home. The cost of living is the same for men and women, so it concerns her that, on average, women earn less than 75% of what men earn. “It’s not fair,” she says. “With educational opportunities, women can do anything.”
Alice Landau knows that her bequest to CEW, in addition to her annual support, will enable women to get the education they need to succeed, and is confident that, with help from CEW’s advocacy initiatives, one day inequalities that hold women back will no longer exist. It is her dream that her gift, and others like it, will positively impact the needs of women so that her granddaughters will not know the inequities that women face today.
There are four ways that you can give a bequest to the Center for the Education of Women through your will:
Specific Bequest –a distribution of a specific amount of cash, securities or personal -Percentage Bequest – a stated percentage of the donor’s estate;
Residue of the Estate Bequest – the remainder of the donor’s estate after specific bequests have been satisfied and taxes and costs have been paid;
Contingent Bequest – ensures that if circumstances make it impossible to carry out a donor’s primary provisions (such as heirs who do not survive the donor), assets then pass to CEW.
The University of Michigan can provide suggested wording to you and/or your attorney for designating your gift to the Center for the Education of Women. We can also provide more information about other types of planned gifts. Please call Beth Halloran at 734-998-7698 or email bethhall@umich.edu to discuss planned giving opportunities. There is no cost or obligation and all inquiries are strictly confidential.
