They enable Bernheim to purchase long-term enhancements that strengthen and improve facilities and programs while honoring or memorializing a loved one or colleague. Memorial and honorary gifts provide meaningful, living, long-term tributes to friends, relatives, or colleagues. Your gift also helps Bernheim continue its work to connect people and nature. Memorial or Honorary Gift Opportunities at Bernheim Memorial and honorary contributions are allocated by size of gift.
Smaller gifts go into a fund from which trees, books, and educational materials are purchased.
Multiple gifts may be pooled and the total amount used towards the donor's wishes. When you make a memorial or honorary gift to Bernheim, the person or family you designate is immediately sent a card acknowledging your gift made in their name. The amount of your gift is shown only on the receipt mailed back to you. Gifts are acknowledged with a listing in the newsletter at the time of the gift, by posting for one year on a recognition board in the visitor center, by listing in the first annual report issue of the newsletter that follows the gift, and by entry into a permanent book of memorial gifts maintained in the library. Tree donors also receive a map showing the exact location of their memorial tree in the arboretum, and directions to memorial trees will be maintained at the visitor center information desk, available anytime for the asking.