Planned Giving
Establishing Your Legacy
Establishing a legacy through estate giving will impact generations of UMaine students, faculty and staff with enhanced learning opportunities in perpetuity. Generally, assets are used to establish endowed funds which can be dedicated to supporting UMaine in the way which follows your estate plan instructions. Skilled Foundation staff will quickly and confidentially provide gift illustrations and the language needed to be sure that your wishes are achieved.
Giving through Wills/Trusts
A bequest made through your will or trust to the University of Maine Foundation leaves a lasting legacy and is simple to do.
Giving through Accounts
Designating the University of Maine Foundation as a beneficiary of a retirement, investment or bank account, or life insurance policy is an easy way to make a planned gift.
Gifts of Property
Transferring real estate, tangible, or intangible property to the University of Maine Foundation can make a wonderful gift and may help you to avoid paying capital gains taxes at the same time.
Life Income Gifts
Some gifts – such as charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, and pooled income funds – can actually provide you or a loved one with income during your lifetime and help the University of Maine Foundation.
Other Giving Possibilities
There are various ways to help the University of Maine Foundation while creating your plans. These can include charitable lead trusts, gifts of life insurance policies, and various other possibilities.
Planned Giving News, Inspirational Stories
Learn how others have made an impact at the University of Maine Foundation through their giving.
Contact Us
Sarah McPartland-Good
Foundation General Counsel Sarahm@maine.edu 207.581.5100Sarah McPartland-Good
Sarah McPartland-Good, Esq. is the Foundation General Counsel at the University of Maine Foundation in Orono, where she has worked for twenty-one years to help University of Maine alumni and friends and their counsel to establish endowed funds to support UMaine students through bequests, charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts and other planned gifts. She is a member of the Maine bar and an inactive member of the New Hampshire bar. A former Board Secretary for the Maine Planned Giving Council, she served as the Chair of the Grievance Commission of the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar and was appointed by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court as a trustee for the Lawyer’s Fund for Client Protection.
Karen Kemble
Associate Director of Planned Giving karen.kemble@maine.edu 207.581.5116Karen Kemble
Karen Kemble ’P21 joined the University of Maine Foundation in 2015 as a planned giving officer. Karen works with individuals who wish to support UMaine by making planned gifts such as charitable bequests in their wills/trusts or other planning documents, donating real estate or other property, or creating life-income gifts. She also works with professional advisors whose clients wish to support UMaine.
In her former life, Karen worked in the private practice of law in Bangor for ten years and handled equal opportunity issues for the University of Maine as the director of the Office of Equal Opportunity.
Karen grew up in Chesterville, a small town in western Maine. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Bates College where she played field hockey and was on the Nordic ski team. She went on to earn her law degree from Cornell Law School. She married her high-school sweetheart, Jay (UMaine ’87, ’95G). Karen and Jay have two children: Peter (UMaine Class of ’21) and Anna who is studying musical theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. When Karen isn’t working, she enjoys the outdoors and doing any activities with her family.