Tomorrow's Harvest is the Greater Cleveland Food Bank's esteemed planned giving society. Members of Tomorrow’s Harvest’s legacy gifts traditionally live on in perpetuity and ensure that tomorrow's families in need will have nutritious meals for generations to come.

To help you get started, we’ve partnered with FreeWill to provide an online estate planning tool. This resource makes it simple and cost-free to write a legal will and includes the necessary language to support the Greater Cleveland Food Bank with a bequest. Click here to create your free plan and legacy gift.

Planned Gifts left to the Food Bank make an incredibly large impact. These important gifts fund crucial strategic areas such as Capital projects that dramatically strengthen our effectiveness. For example, in 2022, the Food Bank moved to a much larger facility with increased food storage, significantly larger kitchen prep space, and a greatly increased capacity for distribution. In 2023, the new Community Resource Center opened, providing new access to fresh food and partner services in our renovated South Waterloo facility.

Planned gifts also help grow the Greater Cleveland Food Bank's endowment, which earns annual interest that helps provide hundreds of thousands of meals to those facing food insecurity in years to come.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss with you and your advisor how you can meet your charitable objectives while still providing for your loved ones. For example, you can leave a bequest in your will, add the Greater Cleveland Food Bank as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy, give a gift of retirement assets, or set up a charitable gift annuity. We would be delighted to take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of our warehouse, a hard hat tour of the new Community Resource Center housed in our former office space and food distribution hub on S. Waterloo, or to visit one of our programs in the community so that you have the opportunity to see the impact that your generosity makes today and will continue to make for years to come.

For more information, please contact Danny Treichel, Development Specialist, by calling 216.385.2126 or emailing djtreichel@clevelandfoodbank.org.

Bequests

A bequest in your will, naming the Greater Cleveland Food Bank as a beneficiary, is an easy way to support future hunger relief efforts. A bequest can be a gift of cash, securities, or other specified assets. 

This free estate planning tool makes it simple to write a legal will or trust and includes the necessary language to create your bequest. Click here to get started.

Sample Bequest Language

Life Insurance

Life insurance policies are another asset suitable as a planned gift to the Food Bank. By donating a paid-up life insurance policy or designating the Greater Cleveland Food Bank as a beneficiary of a new policy, you can help us to continue our distribution of food to those in need well into the future.

Retirement Assets

Retirement assets may be one of the best to transfer as a charitable contribution because of their specific characteristics. In many cases, retirement assets can be the highest taxed asset of an estate, and a beneficiary may have to pay income tax on distributions received. Please consult your legal and/or financial advisor about the gifting of any type of retirement asset, profit sharing plan, a 401(k) or 403(b), or an IRA before taking action. You can make a tax-efficient gift and help us provide food for those in need through a Charitable IRA.