There are several ways to give of your treasure at Heart and Soul. We strive to make giving simple, straightforward, and accessible.
You can also set up a recurring gift or declare a giving intention over several years.
- Recurring Gift. Visit our website. Click the “Give Now” button. Then, select one of the recurring giving options (i.e., weekly, every two weeks, monthly, or yearly)
- Declaring a Giving Intention. You may choose to set a specific annual amount that you want to give to Heart & Soul. To do so, click here for our Giving Intention Form. Download, complete all sections and email the completed and signed form to infiniteprosperity@heartsoulcenter.org
All gifts made to Heart & Soul are tax-deductible.
Tithing. Tithing is the spiritual practice of giving 10% or more of your annual earnings. Tithes should be given from your income before any expenses or obligations are paid.
General Fund. Contributing to our General Fund allows us maximum flexibility in the allocation of gifts where we have the greatest operational need.
Target Giving. If you choose to target your giving, the following options are available on our Give Now page.
- Tithe
- Adult Education
- Pay for a Class
- Imagining Justice
- Summer School
- Youth & Family
- Oakland/Bay Area CARES
- New Home Fund
Celebratory Giving. You may choose to acknowledge an important milestone, such as a birthday, wedding, anniversary or graduation. Or, you may want to make a recurring or one time gift honoring a loved one who has transitioned.
No matter the amount, celebratory giving is a good way to acknowledge those you love!
Please email us if you would like to make a celebratory gift.
Estate Planning Giving
At Heart & Soul Center of Light, planned giving is one way to leave a legacy of Love. Your planned gift will help Heart & Soul create a world that works for everyone and ensure that our world class teaching and empowerment ministry lives on for generations to come.
As you meet with your financial or estate planner, you can discuss ways to include Heart & Soul as a beneficiary in many of your financial planning tools. We are grateful to you for considering Heart & Soul into your long-term financial planning.
is the result of a mental atmosphere of faith and order induced within us through right thinking. We should believe that the universe is planned for abundance, and that we as a living part of the Universal Intelligence have a share in the general riches.
Planned Giving
Launched in 2017, The Oseola McCarty Society is the cornerstone of our planned giving program. The Legacy Society includes our generous and visionary donors who, like Oseola McCarty, are committed to seeing Heart & Soul and its initiatives endure for generations to come. Since our launch, we have received a number of legacy-building gifts and we invite you to add Heart & Soul into your estate plan. When you inform us that you are including Heart & Soul in your estate planning, you are recognized as a member of the Oseola McCarty Legacy Society.
A legacy society is a program created by a nonprofit organization to recognize and honor donors who commit to making a planned gift, such as a bequest, a trust, or a gift from a life insurance policy, to the organization in their estate plans. These societies provide a way to thank donors during their lifetime, keep them engaged with the organization, and serve as a way to inspire others to leave a future gift.
About Oseola McCarty*
Born in 1908, Oseola McCarty was raised in Hattiesburg by her grandmother and aunt, who cleaned houses, cooked, and took in laundry. As a child, Oseola would come home from elementary school and iron clothes. In sixth grade, she dropped out of school to care for her aunt and began work as a washerwoman. Oseola never returned to school.
As a laundress, Oseola scrubbed her laundry by hand on a rubboard with water drawn from a nearby fire hydrant, and dried the clothes on an open-air clothesline. She did try an automatic washer and dryer in the 1960s, but found that “the washing machine didn’t rinse enough, and the dryer turned the whites yellow.”
Of work, Oseola said, “I knew there were people who didn’t have to work as hard as I did, but it didn’t make me feel sad. I loved to work, and when you love to do anything, those things don’t bother you. . . . Sometimes I worked straight through two or three days. I had goals I was working toward. That motivated me and I was able to push hard. . . . Work is a blessing. As long as I am living, I want to be working at something. Just because I am old doesn’t mean I can’t work.” This extraordinary work ethic continued until her retirement at age 86.
Upon her retirement, she let people in on a secret she had been keeping since she started working at the age of 8 years old. She had been depositing money at the bank and told no one. Of that she said, “I never would take any of it out. I just put it in. . . . It’s not the ones that make the big money, but the ones who know how to save who get ahead. You got to leave it alone long enough for it to increase.”
Over the years, that money increased to $280,000 and Oseola decided to give most of it away—not as a bequest, but immediately. Setting aside just enough to live on, McCarty donated $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to fund scholarships for worthy but needy students seeking the education she never had. In making that gift Oseola inspired 600 others to give to the university, more than tripling the impact of her gift. Today, the university presents several full-tuition McCarty scholarships every year.
After hearing her story, media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner pledged a billion dollars to charities. He was quoted in the New York Times, saying, “If that little woman can give away everything she has, then I can give a billion.”
At Heart & Soul, we honor her philanthropic spirit through the Oseola McCarty Legacy Society. She created a legacy that endures. That’s exactly what we’re up to at Heart & Soul Center of Light..
*Sources: Philanthropy Roundtable; The University of Southern Mississippi Foundation; Wikipedia.
Planned gifts can also be a strategic part of your estate planning process. If you have an estate plan or are thinking of getting started, you can list Heart & Soul as a beneficiary in your will, trust, life insurance policy or retirement plans. Here are some additional ways you can make a planned gift:
- Wills and Estate Plans
- Retirement Plans
- Life Insurance Policies
- Charitable Remainder Trusts
- Appreciated Securities (Stock, Bonds, Mutual Funds)
Contact infiniteprosperity@heartsoulcenter.org with questions, additional guidance, or to begin your plans to include Heart & Soul in your life’s legacy.
You, your attorney, or legal document preparer like LegalZoom or Guideway can include Heart & Soul as a beneficiary when you prepare or revise your will or estate plan. You can also add a codicil at any time. A codicil allows you to amend a portion of your existing will or estate plan without filing an entirely new one.
If you choose to name Heart & Soul as a beneficiary through your will or estate plan, please share this information with us by emailing infiniteprosperity@heartsoulcenter.org. Someone from our Infinite Prosperity team will reach out to you. Thank you!
Make a planned gift to Heart & Soul Center of Light through your retirement plan by naming Heart & Soul as a beneficiary. To name Heart & Soul Center of Light as a beneficiary, you should obtain a beneficiary designation form from your plan administrator.
You will likely need the following information to complete your designation:
- Beneficiary’s Name – Heart & Soul Center of Light
- Beneficiary’s address – 5627 Telegraph Avenue, #405, Oakland, California 94609
- Beneficiary’s Tax Identification Number – 27-1529493
If you choose to name Heart & Soul as a beneficiary through your retirement plan, please share this information with us by emailing infiniteprosperity@heartsoulcenter.org. Someone from our Infinite Prosperity team will reach out to you. Thank you!
You can name Heart & Soul as a primary or contingent beneficiary of an existing or new life insurance policy. You should obtain a beneficiary designation form from your life insurance administrator.
You will likely need the following information to complete your designation:
- Beneficiary’s Name – (Heart & Soul Center of Light
- Beneficiary’s Address- (5627 Telegraph Avenue, #405, Oakland, CA 94609)
- Beneficiary’s Tax Identification Number – (27-1529493)
If you choose to name Heart & Soul as a beneficiary through your life insurance policy, please share this information with us by emailing infiniteprosperity@heartsoulcenter.org. Someone from our Infinite Prosperity team will reach out to you. Thank you!
A charitable remainder trust is an irrevocable trust that generates a potential income stream for you (the donor), or other beneficiaries, with the remainder of the donated assets going to Heart & Soul. An attorney or legal document preparer (e.g., LegalZoom, Guideway, etc…) can help you establish a charitable remainder trust.
If you choose to name Heart & Soul as a beneficiary through your charitable remainder trust, please share this information with us by emailing infiniteprosperity@heartsoulcenter.org. Someone from our Infinite Prosperity team will reach out to you. Thank you!
Appreciated securities are stocks, bonds, or mutual funds that have appreciated in value over time. There are significant tax benefits to this type of gift. You won’t have to pay capital gains tax on the transfer when the security is sold. You also receive an income tax deduction for the fair market value of the securities on the date the transfer occurs.
If you choose to name Heart & Soul as a beneficiary through appreciated securities, please share this information with us by emailing infiniteprosperity@heartsoulcenter.org. Someone from our Infinite Prosperity will reach out to you. Thank you!
Harriet Tubman Stakeholders
Harriet Tubman Stakeholders are our most generous donors. They give lovingly and generously and inspire others to give. Individuals and communities locally and globally also benefit from their gifts.
The 2025 designation as a Harriet Tubman Stakeholder means that you have contributed a minimum of $2,500 to Heart & Soul during 2025. In the year following, 2026, you’ll be named a Harriet Tubman Stakeholder. And for every year following, in which your giving totals $2,500 or more, you will be named a Harriet Tubman Stakeholder.
We know giving isn’t always easy. It takes planning and commitment. Harriet Tubman Stakeholders embody the intentionality, generosity, planning and commitment that will take Heart & Soul Center of Light into its next steps in divine unfoldment.
A member of our Infinite Prosperity team will reach out to you to inform you of your inclusion in this community of our most generous givers. Please email infiniteprosperity@heartsoulcenter.org, for more information or if you have any questions.
About Harriet Tubman*
In March 1822, Araminta Ross (affectionately called “Minty”) was born into a family of 9 children. At the age of 6, Harriet was rented out to provide childcare for nearby overseers with her compensation going to her enslaver. This work separated her from her family for extended periods of time. After witnessing another enslaved person’s attempted escape, Harriet refused to assist the freedom seeker’s enslaver in their efforts to capture and return their “property”. As the enslaver threw a 2-pound weight toward the freedom seeker, he missed, and struck Harriet in the back of her head, fracturing her skull.
After this incident, frequent physical pain became a consistent part of Harriet’s life showing up as chronic headaches and uncontrollable bouts of seizures. Historians now know that Harriet had narcolepsy, a chronic neurological disorder that affects the brain’s ability to control sleep-wake cycles. History also notes that vivid visions of freedom came to her when experiencing seizures.
The pain of separation and the fiercely vile nature of slavery, led Harriet to seek a sense of autonomy wherever she could. She negotiated with her enslaver to select her own work assignments and he agreed as long as she paid him a yearly fee. Using the knowledge she gained on these various assignments, Harriet set her sights on escaping to Philadelphia.
Known as the “Moses of her people”, Harriet’s commitment to freedom led her to make an estimated 13 missions to free approximately 70 enslaved people. As a “conductor” of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman was never caught nor did she ever lose a “passenger”. Celebrated in her own community, Harriet angered enslavers with many calling for her capture with bounties upwards of $40,000 which amounts to more than $1.6 million dollars today.
Considered the first African American woman to serve in the U.S. military, Mother Harriett also served as a scout, spy and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war, she raised funds to aid freedmen, joined the women’s suffrage movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and cared for her aging parents. She also worked with writer Sara Bradford on her autobiography.
Mother Harriett transitioned in 1913 and was buried with military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York.
*Sources: MLA – Michals, Debra. “Harriett Tubman.” National Women’s History Museum, 2015. Date accessed. And, Chicago – Michals, Debra. “Harriet Tubman.” National Women’s History Museum, 2015.
During a recent critical financial period (2020-2024), Harriet Tubman Legacy Stakeholders gave annual gifts of a minimum of $3,000.00 each year.