Bruce Bigelow

My father was a retired Presbyterian minister. He lived a life of service and of deep satisfaction but not one that brought large financial reward. When, at age 72, he sat on the 50th reunion committee of his alma mater, a college to which he was devoted and to which he contributed regular small donations, he felt he could not make a large gift to his reunion fund — until he discovered charitable gift annuities. A charitable gift annuity is a contract between a donor and a charity in which the charity pays a donor a fixed amount for life in return for the