Thank you for considering a gift of stock to Ripon College.

Most gifts of appreciated long-term capital-gain property to Ripon College offer

substantial benefits to the College and to the donor.  Several easy options are

available to prospective donors, and rarely is it advantageous to actually transfer

the registration of the stock into the college's name.  These three easy methods

of transfer should help complete a stock gift with a minimum of delay and expense

and allow the donor to maximize the effect of the gift for Ripon College.

If your stock is currently held in an account with a brokerage firm, making your

gift to Ripon will work usingeither Method 1 or 2.

Method 1:     

Your stock gift can be sold (for the College), by your broker.  Give your broker a

signed letter of instruction with the name of the stock that you will be contributing,

number of shares, any restrictions regarding your gift, and the fact that the College

will be calling to give disposition instructions.  Fax, e-mail, or mail a copy of your

letter to the Office for Advancement.  The College will contact your broker. 

No physical exchange will take place.  This is by far the fastest  and most efficient

form of transfer.

Method 2:    

Your stock gift can be transferred electronically into the College's account.  You

will simply give your broker a signed letter of instruction to deliver the stock

(name and number of shares) to Ripon College via "free delivery through DTC." 

Fax, e-mail, or mail a copy of your letter to the Office for Advancement. The

College needs written confirmation of the transfer from your broker before we

can issue a gift receipt. Your broker will require two pieces of information to complete

the delivery:

    •   The Ripon College account is held by M&I Brokerage Services through a

         clearing agent named Pershing.  The M&I Pershing DTC number is 0443.

    •    The account number for Ripon College at M&I is: 4RP-214270.

Method 3:   

If you hold a physical stock certificate and want to gift that stock to Ripon,

send three things to the Office for Advancement to complete the gift:

    •   The unsigned stock certificate.  Leave the certificate unsigned, nonnegotiable.

    •   A cover letter.  With the stock certificate, please send a cover letter including

        your name, address, name of the stock, number of shares, certificate numbers,

        and any restrictions regarding your gift.

    •   In a separate envelope, send a stock power** for each stock certificate with

        your signature guaranteed.  This stock power will later be attached to the gifted

        stock certificate, to make it negotiable.  Stock powers are available from

        brokerage firms or banks.

  ** Please note that the stock power that accompanies each stock certificate

       must now have the signature guaranteed before the College broker (M&I)

       will be able to trade it for the College.  Signature Guarantee is not the same

       as a notarized signature. The guarantee can be easily obtained at most

       financial institutions or banks.

                                 For further information, please contact:

                           Bill Neill ’67, David Minor ’68, or Larry Malchow ’77 

                                 Ripon College Office for Advancement

                                                    P.O. Box 248   

                                            Ripon, WI  54971-0248   

Toll Free: (877) 231-0455                                                Email: neillw@ripon.edu

Phone: (920) 748-8351                                                              minord@ripon.edu

Fax: (920) 748-9262                                                                 malchowl@ripon.edu

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