Your generosity becomes the words that girls will use to express themselves and build lives of their own choosing. Your compassion becomes the stories that young learners will hold in their hearts and share with their own children. Most importantly, your thoughtfulness becomes a better life for every student, family, and community that we reach, both now and for years to come. Your support is their success. Their triumph is your legacy. When you include a gift for Room to Read in your will…
Legacy Giving
Stories from our Legacy Community
"If you are looking for a way to have a profound, positive impact on global education, that costs you nothing now, I highly recommend including Room to Read in your will. It is the most impactful way to invest in a brighter future for all."
- Craig Herb, Room to Read supporter since 2007
Establishing Your Legacy is Easy
With charitable gift planning, you can create a legacy gift that will extend your support for years to come. It's simple to structure your gift to maximize its benefits in a way that is most favorable to you, your loved ones and the organizations you choose.
For assistance please contact Caitlin Nagel, our Legacy Giving Manager, at legacy@roomtoread.org or follow the steps below.
Easy Guide to Include Room to Read in Your Will
To include Room to Read in your will you will need our address and charity registration number. Please see below for these details, including Room to Read’s recommended free will-writing service for your country, if we have one. If your country is not listed below, please use our United States information or reach out to legacy@roomtoread.org for more information.
Creating a legacy gift allows you to designate your investment to the work that you are most passionate about. Most of our supporters choose to invest in our greatest need. Should you choose not to designate your investment, it will go toward Room to Read’s Future Fund, ensuring your gift is used for maximum possible impact as part of our operational reserves, strengthening our ability to execute our mission in an unpredictable future. This Fund enables organizational nimbleness and ensures protection against the unexpected, as well as financial flexibility to identify, test, and invest in new, even more efficient approaches to delivering our programs to the children who need them most.
United States
EIN/Tax ID: 91-2003533
Address: Room to Read, 465 California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, CA 94104
Recommended will-writing service: FreeWill
Australia & New Zealand
ABN: 13 133 277 666
Address: Room to Read Australia Limited, P.O. Box R1017, Royal Exchange, NSW, 1225 Australia
Canada
Charity BN: 85061 2417 RR0001
Address: Room to Read Canada of 2405 Pine Street, P.O. Box 46877, Vancouver, BC V6J 3E9
Hong Kong
Registration Number: 1117869
Address: Room to Read Hong Kong Ltd, Room to Read 87/F International Commerce Centre One Austin Road West Kowloon Hong Kong
Recommended will-writing service: ForeverGift or call +852 5468 3635
India
Registration Number: TI22579
Address: D21 Corporate Park, Office No. 201E (B), 2nd Floor, Sector-21, Dwarka, New Delhi – 110075
Singapore
EIN/Tax ID: 91-2003533
Address: Room to Read, 465 California Street, Suite 1000, San Francisco, CA 94104
Switzerland
Identification Number/TIN: CHE-237.755.163
Address: Room to Read – Schweiz c/o First Names (Switzerland Ltd) Am Schanzengraben 25, PO Box 8022 Zurich
United Kingdom
Registration Number: 1125803
Address: Room to Read UK Limited, Bracken House, 1 Friday Street, London, EC4M 9BT
What if I want to make Room to Read the beneficiary of my retirement, life insurance, or other accounts?
To designate Room to Read as a beneficiary you will need our address, listed under the previous question.
If your account is held in the United States, you can plan your beneficiary designations through FreeWill.
Yes, please let us know so we can express our gratitude and welcome you into our Legacy Community. Email legacy@roomtoread.org to reach Caitlin Nagel, our Legacy Giving Manager.
Contact Us
To notify us of a gift or ask questions about Legacy Giving, please contact us.
Joanne lived life to the fullest and was certainly the embodiment of charting one’s own path. It was not lost on her that the education and life skills that allowed her to achieve so much were denied to so many children, especially girls, around the world. Joanne was passionate about opportunities for women, literacy, and reading, and she focused her charitable giving in these spaces. As a detail-oriented person, Joanne made sure to have an up-to-date will in place and researched several non-profits carefully before deciding which organizations to include in her plans. Joanne lived an incredibly rich life and was surrounded by the love of her close friends and family when she peacefully passed away in October 2020. One of the gifts she included in her will was designated for Room to Read’s greatest need, providing more than 16,000 students with essential literacy and education equality support. Special thanks to Pat Williams for sharing these lovely memories of her dear friend, Joanne Bethlahmy.
For Joanne Bethlahmy, education was the key to accessing the beauty and wonder of the world. Her wanderlust was ignited at 11 years old when she traveled extensively with her family. In college, she explored much of Europe while also earning a degree in history. In her postgraduate studies, she graduated near the top of her class from Hastings College of Law while also earning an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkley. These degrees led Joanne into a successful career in marketing and business strategy, making new friends wherever she went, challenging herself daily and earning accolades and praise from clients and colleagues regularly.
Joanne’s brilliance and passion live on in the students whose lives are forever improved by her gift, as well as in her closest friends and family, who remember her creative spirit, loyalty to loved ones, commitment to quality, excellence in everything she did, and especially, her kindness.
