FLORIDA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION (FLA)
PO BOX 1676, ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA 33731
(727) 677-7775
www.FloridaLighthouses.org
Preserving, restoring and protecting Florida's lighthouses!
HELP SAVE FLORIDA’S LIGHTHOUSES! 2014 PLEDGE FORM
PLEASE PRINT AND EMAIL YOUR COMPLETED FORM TO INFO@FLORIDALIGHTHOUSES.ORG
FLA’s mission is to safeguard Florida’s remaining lighthouses for future generations by supporting community
based restoration, preservation and education efforts. Only 30 lighthouses remain today. The most recent
State of Florida study estimates that it will take almost $20 million dollars to preserve these towers.
FLA members and donors made it possible for FLA to give $103,377 in grants to local lighthouse preservation
groups during the last fiscal year! This year requests for grants exceed the funds available!
Name: ___________________________________________________________________________________
List my/our name on FLA’s donor recognition list as: _____________________________________________
Email: ___________________________________________________________________________________
This is important - FLA uses email for e newsletters, meeting information, membership confirmations and gift receipts.
Preferred Phone: __________________________________________________________________________
Yes, I/We want to make a philanthropic gift to help save lighthouses for future generations.
Enclosed is my/our gift of $_______________ Checks should be made payable to FLA
I/we pledge at total of $ __________________
I/we will mail gifts to fulfill our pledge to FLA:
Before December 30, 2014
Monthly
Quarterly (Dec, March, June, Sept)
I/we will make credit card payments to fulfill our pledge as follows:
Before December 30, 2014
Quarterly (Dec, March, June, Sept)
Monthly ~ We will go to FLA’s website to set up our monthly
credit card payments
Please also provide me/us with information on:
Wills, trust and estate gift arrangements
Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds,
Savings Bonds
Paid-up Life Insurance
IRA distributions
FLA is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, funded by philanthropic gifts and memberships from individuals. FLA does not receive government
funding! Florida’s "Visit Our Lights" license plate sales provide additional funding for preservation and restoration grants to local lighthouses.
A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION (CH8757) AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES
ON THEIR WEBSITE AT https://csapp.800helpfla.com/cspublicapp/giftgiversquery/giftgiversquery.aspxOR BY CALLING TOLL-FREE 1-800-4357352 WITHIN THE STATE. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.
Your philanthropic gift helps save Florida Lighthouses!
Here is what your gift can accomplish ~
$30 can provide 3 days of work for a team of archeological graduate students striving to understand the life and
times of the historic Florida maritime community or the specialized cleaning of 300 square feet of historic
brickwork.
$100 can provide the restoration of an historic iron step or patching crumbling mortar on a square foot of
antique brickwork. Recently a school district had to cut back on a planned field trip to a local lighthouse.
Through an individual's gift of $100, two buses were scheduled and 120 students were able to participate in this
important historical adventure.
$250 can pay for two classrooms from transportation and program costs for a local school to have a field trip to
a lighthouse and learn about Florida maritime history and the importance of preservation.
FLA recognizes donors who make gifts of $250 or more as LUMEN SOCIETY members
$500 can rebuild five historic iron steps in a lighthouse tower.
FLA recognizes donors who make gifts of $500 or more as BEACON SOCIETY members.
$1,000 can purchase enough specialized marine paint to allow a volunteer to completely cover an historic
building or provide a day of ground penetrating radar to aid archeologists in their discovery of artifacts located
on lighthouse grounds.
FLA recognizes donors who make gifts of $1,000 or more as PRISM SOCIETY members
$5,000 can help a volunteer preservationist strip and repaint a historic building.
FLA recognizes donors who make gifts of $5,000 or more as FRESNEL SOCIETY members
$10,000 will enable a trained volunteer to completely restore an antique lens system or provide a roof for an
historic out building such as an oil house, or wash room.
FLA recognizes donors who make gifts of $10,000 or more as TOWER SOCIETY members
$25,000 can rescue and completely restore an out building on an historic lighthouse grounds
FLA recognizes donors who make cumulative gifts of $25,000 or more, in perpetuity as
PHAROS SOCIETY COMMEMORATIVE ROLL OF HONOR members
$100,000 can completely restore all the historic ironwork in a brick lighthouse tower or fund a years’ worth
of archaeological or historic research by a graduate student team.
$1,000,000 will restore a lighthouse ~ that is what it costs to completely restore one of the towers.
FLA recognizes donors who have included a charitable gift to FLA restoration efforts in
their estate plan as LIGHT KEEPERS LEGACY SOCIETY
For more information on how your support helps save lighthouses and FLA’s Donor Recognition Societies please go to the website
www.FloridaLighthouses.org