Endowments - HLDF

On Oct. 3, 1989, the people of the Diocese of Duluth celebrated a Diocesan Centenary. As a thanksgiving sacrifice to God for His many blessings during those first 100 years, the diocese established the Human Life and Development Fund (HLDF).

The purpose is twofold: First, to reach out to those among us who are needy — the poor, hungry, homeless and jobless; and second, to champion the sanctity of every human life from the moment of conception through all its stages to natural death.

Ways to support the fund

• Direct gifts of cash, securities, paid-up insurance policies, and other personal property and real estate
• Bequests to the fund under the terms of a will
• Charitable gift annuities
• Distributions from a charitable trust
• Designation of the fund as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy or IRA