PLANNED GIVING
Seven Ways to Make a Planned Gift to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia:
1. A gift in your living will or trust.
2. A gift of a new or existing life insurance policy.
3. A beneficiary designation on your life insurance policy.
4. A gift of financial accounts.
5. A gift of retirement benefits.
6. A life income gift to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia.
7. A charitable lead trust.
For additional information and detailed descriptions of the above items, please click here, or contact Kate Lambert at 434.971.9402.
The Heritage Club is an association of friends of Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia from all across the country. Like you, these people seek to ensure that the future needs of our nation’s youth are met by including Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia in their estate plans. This planning might include a will, charitable gift annuity, a trust arrangement, a real estate gift or a life insurance policy.
When you join The Heritage Club, Boys & Girls Clubs of America will thank you by providing you with:
- A publication on tax and estate planning.
- A personalized Heritage Club recognition plaque (optional).
- A lapel pin that indicates your leadership in the mission to guarantee a strong and stable future for our nation’s children.
- Quarterly publications that let you know how your support is helping to change young lives.
Your support through a planned gift will ensure that future generations of our children will have the opportunity to live successful lives in a safe, positive and caring environment.
Joining The Heritage Club is easy! Simply communicate your intentions by printing, signing and returning our enrollment form. For assistance, you may request that a planned giving representative contact you to discuss your specific estate planning needs and opportunities by contacting Kate Lambert at 434.971.9400 or at klambert@bgclubcva.org.
Matt King is the founder and CEO of a regional commercial real estate development and management company with a focus on projects within close walking distance of universities and city centers. He previously served on the boards of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge and Children’s Home Society of Virginia. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University.
Anita McGinty is a longtime volunteer for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia. Dr. McGinty comes to the Club with 20+ years of experience in education and research. She began her work as a speech-language pathologist and, after receiving her Ph.D. in 2009, has served as an academic and education leader, influencing practice and policy at local, state, and national levels. In 2021, Anita left her position as an Associate Research Professor within the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia (UVA), having led the data and research agenda for two state education partnerships (spanning children birth to third grade).
Edward Warwick White began his involvement with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia when he joined the Big Gig committee in 2014, later chairing the event in 2016 and co-chairing again in 2018. Edward has been active as a volunteer and Co-Chair of Club Investors. Edward currently serves as the Assistant Dean of the Full-time MBA Program and Student Affairs at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business. Edward earned a Bachelor of Science degree in interdisciplinary studies and elementary education from Radford University and a Masters of Education in Student Affairs Practice in Higher Education from the University of Virginia. Edward has worked for the University of Virginia since 2008—previously with the Office of the Dean of Students and the McIntire School of Commerce. Having resided in Charlottesville since 2007, Edward is active in the local community and performing arts scene—as a director, designer, actor, and volunteer. Edward has served on the board of directors for Four County Players–Central Virginia’s longest running community theater for over ten years, currently serving as the Vice President of the Arts. He resides in Forest Lakes with his husband Gary and their Golden Retriever, Gatsby.
Mike Milligan is the retired Chief Executive of a diversified investment and industrial operating company. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sue has over thirty-five years of experience in clinical research and public health. She has held positions involved with the management and oversight of medical device and IVD clinical trials, clinical research strategy, and business development.
Ernie was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. Upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1987, he was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps. Ernie served in the Marines for 20 years, in various capacities and all over the world. After serving as an artillery officer with the First Marine Division, Ernie earned his J.D. from The George Washington University School of Law in 1994, and served as a judge advocate in the Marine Corps. Highlights of his service include shipboard deployment as the Staff Judge Advocate to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), 2000 – 2002 and as Commanding Officer of Region 3, Embassy Security Group, commanding the U.S. Marines guarding U.S. Embassies and other diplomatic missions in Asia, 2005 -2007. He retired from military service in 2007, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Gineane grew up in Charlottesville and graduated from UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce in 1992. Shortly after college, she and her husband, Sean Stalfort, moved to New York City where Gineane worked in investment banking and insurance (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, FGIC, MBIA and ContiFinancial). After returning to Charlottesville, she has provided part-time consulting services to small businesses in the areas of computer systems, invoicing, marketing and website maintenance. Gineane is a valued volunteer leader with various local organizations including the Contemporary Club of Albemarle, The Emergency Food Bank, US Lacrosse, WAHS Lacrosse Club, and the Special Olympics.
Dr. Karen Schulder Rheuban serves as Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education and External Affairs, and Director of the University of Virginia Center for Telehealth, which she co-founded in 1995. The Center serves as the hub of a 155 site telemedicine network in the Commonwealth of Virginia, funded in part, by federal and state grants and contracts, and has supported ambulatory and specialty patient visits, e-consults, remote patient monitoring services and thousands of hours of health professional and patient education. UVA is the home of the HRSA funded Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center. Dr. Rheuban is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Telemedicine Association. She recently concluded two terms of service as chair of the Virginia Board of Medical Assistance Services (Medicaid). She chaired the 2020 Virginia Department of Health/Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association’s COVID-19 Response Telehealth Working Group. She led the Institute of Medicine Workshop on Telehealth, serves on the American Medical Association’s Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group, and the AAMC Telehealth Advisory Committee. Dr. Rheuban has previously testified before the US Senate, the US House of Representatives and the Virginia General Assembly regarding telehealth. With Dr. Elizabeth Krupinski, she co-edited the text “Understanding Telehealth”. Dr. Rheuban is listed in the “Best Doctors in America” database, and was profiled in the National Library of Medicine’s exhibit “Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians.” In 2017, the University of Virginia recognized her with its Thomas Jefferson Award.
A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Eric Dewane Johnson graduated from the University of Virginia, where he majored in psychology. He served as the City of Charlottesville first coordinator of the Victim/Witness Assistance Program in which he provided crisis intervention services and court preparation to victims and witnesses of violent crimes. One of his responsibilities was to educate students about establishing healthy relationships to prevent domestic violence. Eric developed an affinity for teaching youth.
A graduate of Mississippi State University, Amanda had a career in Fashion
Basketball great Ralph Lee Sampson, Jr. was born on July 7, 1960 in Harrisonburg, VA to the proud parents of Ralph & Sarah Sampson and the eldest of three children. Sampson credits his sound, small town upbringing in Harrisonburg, Virginia, as well as the love and support of his parents and high school basketball coach, for his success today. At a young age, Sampson learned both the importance of teamwork and leadership, as he led his high school basketball team to three state championships, becoming the most heavily-recruited prospect of his generation.
Melissa has recently returned to the University of Virginia as the John Forbes Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business and Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. She is the former Head of Global Diversity and Belonging at Airbnb, where she led the strategy and execution of their global internal diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging programs and retains an external senior advisor role focused on advancing connection and belonging research. Immediately prior to her role at Airbnb, Melissa served as Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence and Professor of Management in the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Prior to that, Melissa served as global chief diversity officer and faculty at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business where she led the Women in Leadership executive education program and was the founding academic director of the BRAD lab. She has also held faculty appointments at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, where she was a member of the faculty for nine years, and also taught at Northwestern’s Kellogg School, Washington University’s Olin School of Business, and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Melissa has been actively engaged in nonprofit board service. She currently serves on the board of Airbnb.org and has previously been a board member at The Center for Nonprofit Excellence, The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Piedmont CASA, The Center for Dispute Resolution, and the Women’s Opportunity Center.