RMI LEGACY SOCIETY - Rocky Mountain Institute

Ensuring the clean energy transformation today and tomorrow – RMI’s Legacy Society is a community of dedicated supporters who have included RMI in their estate plans to catalyze a low-carbon, just and thriving world for all, for ever.

What will your legacy be?

Your decision to make the gift of a lifetime will help RMI continue to forge a path toward a better world for generations to come. When it comes to defining your legacy at Rocky Mountain Institute, your options are many:

Bequests

An easy way to transfer assets through your estate.

Retirement Plan Assets

You can also use retirement assets to ensure a clean energy future.

Life Insurance

Donating an existing policy or purchasing an additional policy to benefit Rocky Mountain Insitute can be a low cost way to make a significant donation.

Real Estate

Gifts of land and buildings can be donated for liquidation to support Rocky Mountain Institute.

Other Pathways

Your financial planning professional can suggest additional ways your assets can benefit you, your family and Rocky Mountain Institute:

Donor advised fund
Charitable remainder trust or charitable lead trust
Financial accounts

JOIN TODAY

To learn more about giving through RMI’s Legacy Society, please contact RMI Development Officer Chris Tallackson at ctallackson@rmi.org or by phone at (303) 567-8575.

If you wish to name RMI in your will or estate plan, we should be named as: Rocky Mountain Institute, 22830 Two Rivers Road, Basalt, CO 81621.
Our tax identification number is 74-2244146.

We recommend you seek advice from an estate or tax professional to determine the most appropriate way to include RMI in your will or estate plans.

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HEAR FROM RMI LEGACY SOCIETY MEMBERS

“RMI is transforming energy in the world in the way it needs to be transformed, more effectively than any other organization; I’m happy that I’m able to contribute to that.”– Keith Mesecher, Member since 2004

“My connection with RMI goes back to the 1970s. At that point, Amory Lovins was among the first to raise awareness, at a national and international level, that there was not an eternity of fossil fuels, and that it made economic sense to move toward a sustainable energy program. His whole approach is thinking beyond the box. Something he said always stuck with me: You can start an avalanche by moving the right rocks.”– John Harter, Member since 2007

“For decades, RMI has worked with the diverse interests of different stakeholder communities to find common ground and create win-win solutions that leave everyone better off. As a Legacy donor, I feel I can do my very small part in ensuring that RMI has a solid and predictable foundation to support its long-term goals and strategies.”– Chuck Sieloff, Member since 2012

“The main reason for choosing RMI above so many others–and the main thing that makes RMI stands out–is the global scale on which they are contributing. There’s a lack of opposition that I feel RMI has in its views between renewable, environmental, and progressive ideals on the one hand, and business ideals on the other. I feel RMI looks at those two worlds not in terms of how they are opposed, but how they can support each other.”– Meredith McIntosh, Member since 2017

“My association with RMI started with hearing Amory during those years. He’s impressed me with his insight and tenacity, and also with the fact that he’s worked around government to foster private partnerships, and even make change with corporations people don’t much care for. I think we shouldn’t write off any potential partnership as long as it moves us toward the goal line.”– Mark Schaffer, Member since 2007

“It’s important for us to support the key institutions in the world. People say, ‘Think global, act local.’ In my striving for that, I find RMI right in the middle of that outward path. They are a vehicle for my impact to be global.”– Liza Loop, Member since 2012

RMI LEGACY SOCIETY MEMBERS

The RMI Legacy Society honors those individuals who remember Rocky Mountain Institute with their bequest or other planned gift in their will or estate plan.

Diana Beuttas

Esther and Francis Bligh*

Kathie K. Brown

Joanne and Michael Caffrey

David I. Caulkins

Jonathan Peretz Chance

John and Lou Chapman

Richard and Avery Chase

Anne Cooke

Sally Dudley and Charles Sieloff

Martin P. Dugan

Richard Ford

Cheryl A. Glaser

Peter Greenberg

Margaret Gruger*

Robert T. Haines and Kathryn C. Haines*

Laura Hart*

John and Marcia Harter

Bruce Hathaway and Karen Sagstetter

Margaret and Charles Hollowell

Joanne E. Horton

Dale Hoskins

Stanton Klose

Michael and Colleen Kunkel

Craig and Barbie Laughlin

Erika Leaf

Julie B. Lovins and Gregory Fowler*

Meredith McIntosh

Marge Wurgel and Keith Mesecher

Peg Moran*

David Muckenhirn

James M. and Louise Wilson Noyes

Ann Pruitt

Deborah Reich*

Eric Ringsby

Kerwin L. Schaefer

Mark and Judith Schaffer

David and Joyce Schmoeger

Joan Semmer

James Dennis Seyfert*

Joel Shapiro

Jane Sharp-MacRae*

Rheua S. Stakely*

Etel and Joseph B. Thomas, IV*

Raymond D. Watts*

T. Walley Williams

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*In Memoriam