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  • Charitable Bequest

    You designate our organization as the beneficiary of your asset by will, trust or beneficiary designation form.

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  • Charitable Gift Annuity

    You transfer your cash or appreciated property to our organization in exchange for our promise to pay you fixed payments (with rates based on your age) for the rest of your life.

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  • IRA Charitable Rollover

    Congress has enacted a permanent IRA charitable rollover. As a result you can make an IRA rollover gift this year and in future years.

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  • VRS

    Throughout our history, bequests have played an integral role in shaping the future of OLV Charities. Our Victory Remembrance Society honors those individuals and families who have put our organization in their estate plans.

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  • Leadership Society

    Msgr. Robert C. Wurtz, served as pastor of OLV National Shrine & Basilica and Administrator of OLV Organizations for more than 32 years. Like Father Baker, Msgr. Wurtz oversaw the care of tens of thousands of children, families, and pilgrims in need. Enroll in the Msgr. Robert C. Wurtz Leadership Society.

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Donor Stories

Donor Stories
  • NATIONAL AMBASSADOR, KATIE FORBRICH

    On a recent milestone birthday, Katie Forbrich found herself thinking about her earliest days. Like so many, she and her older brother had been adopted out of OLV Infant Home. And, like so many, her thoughts never seemed to have left the "City of Charity" completely, no matter where life took her.
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    Katie Forbrich
  • NATIONAL AMBASSADOR, MAGGIE BEST

    When one listens to Maggie Best talk about Father Nelson Baker and his legacy of caring, the OLV organizations, it's hard not to get enthused.
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    Maggie Best
  • NATIONAL AMBASSADOR, BOBBY AND HALEY KOVEY

    Amid a very competitive business industry, Bobby Kovey sought God's guidance to ensure his ethics and morals were always the top priorities of his work within the family business he and his wife, Haley, had built.
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    Bobby and Haley Kovey
  • NATIONAL AMBASSADOR, NICK SAWICKI

    "Father Baker is a beacon of hope, inspiring me every day," says Nicholas Sawicki, a native of Lackawanna, N.Y, who now lives in New York City and serves as special assistant to the president and editor-in-chief of America Media, publisher of the popular America magazine.
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    Nick Sawicki
  • NATIONAL AMBASSADOR, TOM SHEEHAN

    Mary touches hearts. Such is the belief of a native of Western New York, Tom Sheehan, who now serves as Dealer Principal of Sheehan Buick GMC in Pompano Beach, Florida.
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    Tom Sheehan
  • VUKELIC DONOR STORY: A FAMILY TRADITION

    For generations, the Vukelic Family has weaved threads of gold into a tapestry of love for the fragile, vulnerable, neglected, and rejected children here at "Father Baker's." The family...
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    The Vukelic Family
  • THE BECK FAMILY

    The Beck Family has ties to "Father Baker's" that go back nearly 100 years and Carol Beck continues to maintain this legacy. After emigrating from Austria and the Czech Republic to Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania...
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    The Beck Family
  • National Ambassador, Katie Forbrich
    National Ambassador, Katie Forbrich
    On a recent milestone birthday, Katie Forbrich found herself thinking about her earliest days. Like so many, she and her older brother had been adopted out of OLV Infant Home. And, like so many, her thoughts never seemed to have left the "City of Charity" completely, no matter where life took her.
    More
  • National Ambassador, Maggie Best
    National Ambassador, Maggie Best
    When one listens to Maggie Best talk about Father Nelson Baker and his legacy of caring, the OLV organizations, it's hard not to get enthused.
    More
  • National Ambassador, Bobby and Haley Kovey
    National Ambassador, Bobby and Haley Kovey
    Amid a very competitive business industry, Bobby Kovey sought God's guidance to ensure his ethics and morals were always the top priorities of his work within the family business he and his wife, Haley, had built.
    More
  • National Ambassador, Nick Sawicki
    National Ambassador, Nick Sawicki
    "Father Baker is a beacon of hope, inspiring me every day," says Nicholas Sawicki, a native of Lackawanna, N.Y, who now lives in New York City and serves as special assistant to the president and editor-in-chief of America Media, publisher of the popular America magazine.
    More
  • National Ambassador, Tom Sheehan
    National Ambassador, Tom Sheehan
    Mary touches hearts. Such is the belief of a native of Western New York, Tom Sheehan, who now serves as Dealer Principal of Sheehan Buick GMC in Pompano Beach, Florida.
    More
  • Vukelic Donor Story:  A Family Tradition
    Vukelic Donor Story: A Family Tradition
    For generations, the Vukelic Family has weaved threads of gold into a tapestry of love for the fragile, vulnerable, neglected, and rejected children here at "Father Baker's." The family...
    More
  • The Beck Family
    The Beck Family
    The Beck Family has ties to "Father Baker's" that go back nearly 100 years and Carol Beck continues to maintain this legacy. After emigrating from Austria and the Czech Republic to Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania...
    More
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victory remembrance society

Throughout our history, bequests have played an integral role in shaping the future of OLV Charities. Our Victory Remembrance Society honors those individuals and families who have put our organization in their estate plans.

Learn more