August is Make-A-Will Month, which serves as a reminder to reflect on the power of planning your legacy through estate planning. Creating an estate plan, which often starts with the easy first step of making a will, gives you an opportunity to define your legacy, from supporting your loved ones to protecting the causes and places you care most about. It can be a way to give the most meaningful gifts of your lifetime and to feel confident that fight to protect your causes will continue for future generations. As you think about your estate plans, whether you are writing your will for the first time or update your existing plans, consider including Surfrider.
Over the last 42 years, the Surfrider Foundation has worked passionately and diligently to become a leader in coastal protection. Since our founding in 1984 by a couple activist surfers in Malibu fighting to protect their favorite wave, we’ve grown to 250 chapters and clubs across the nation, won more than 1,000 policy campaigns for our coasts, and launched a $100 million fundraising campaign. We have powerful momentum, ambitious plans for the future, and expert eyes on ever-emerging threats that continue to arise. We've built a legacy of protecting our coastlines and coastal communities for all to enjoy, and we would be truly honored if you choose to share in that legacy.
By naming Surfrider as a beneficiary of your will, you give us confidence to continue investing, listening, fighting, protecting, and enjoying our ocean, waves, and beaches. Your gift may help launch an urgent campaign to prevent a potentially harmful policy to our coastal communities, build a water quality testing lab to ensure water is safe to swim, surf, and play in, or fund a dune restoration as a nature-based solution to prevent coastal erosion. Your legacy with Surfrider is creating a better future for all.
To get started, you can visit a free resource like freewill.com, or reach out to an estate attorney or advisor.
If you would like more information on including Surfrider in your estate plans, please email us at legacy@surfrider.org.
If you've already included Surfrider in your estate plans, please let us know at legacy@surfrider.org, and we will warmly welcome you into our Legacy Circle.