Healing HeARTS Legacy Society

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At A Window Between Worlds, your planned gift directly supports our mission to empower individuals and communities impacted by violence and trauma through transformative healing arts. Thanks to the generosity of institutional partners, foundation support, and everyday donors, we’re able to ensure that every dollar of your legacy gift fuels art-based programs, scholarships, and the growth of our nationwide network of Facilitators. Your trust means everything—and your impact will resonate for generations to come.

About Us

We believe art can be a catalyst to release trauma, create connection, build resilience, and ignite social change.

A Window Between Worlds collaborates with human service agencies across the country, training and supporting the staff at these partner organizations in facilitating our healing arts curriculum. These workshops provide a unique Window of Time for participants in a wide range of sectors — a safe, non-judgmental environment where they can authentically express themselves in new ways. The size of the sector bubbles below are proportional to the percentage served.

There are multiple benefits to creating art in this type of environment, including improved communication and a renewed sense of possibility. As survivors of trauma make art — by drawing, sculpting, painting, collaging, writing and more — their voices are heard and future potential is seen, often for the first time. This supports individuals, families and communities in processing their experiences and moving forward to less burdened and healthier lives.

Since our founding in 1991, A Window Between Worlds’ arts programming has provided the creation of art as a tool for empowerment and healing to over a quarter million adults and children who have experienced violence and trauma.

How can your compassion today ensure healing and hope for generations to come?

By including A Window Between Worlds in your will or estate plans, or making a gift during your lifetime, you become part of our Healing heARTs Legacy Society—a visionary community of supporters who are committed to ensuring that the transformative power of creative expression continues for generations to benefit. Your gift, no matter the size, has the power to shape the future and strengthen our impact. Your generosity ensures that survivors of trauma have access to healing spaces for generations to come.

Whether you create a legacy scholarship for an issue or community close to your heart, or wish to give a lump sum to support our growing program needs, planned gifts are a meaningful way to support AWBW—while also caring for your loved ones and honoring your financial priorities. And setting one up may be easier than you think.

Ways to Create Your Legacy

Let AWBW know we are already included in your planned giving

We’d love to thank you and officially welcome you to the Healing heARTs Legacy Society.

Create a will or trust with AWBW as a beneficiary (free to create)

Extend your impact for generations to come

Including A Window Between Worlds in your will or living trust is a meaningful way to ensure your commitment to healing and transformation lives on.

Making this kind of gift can be as simple as adding one sentence to your estate plans:

Ex: “I hereby give to A Window Between Worlds, a not-for-profit organization (Federal Tax ID# 95-4448606) with offices at 1029-1/2 W. 24th Street Los Angeles, CA 90007, the sum of $_______; or _______% of the residue of my estate.”

A specific dollar amount

A percentage of your estate

A specific asset (e.g., stocks, real estate, artwork)

Name AWBW as a Beneficiary Designations (free to create)

Naming AWBW as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or life insurance is a tax-smart way to maximize your impact.

Retirement assets left to nonprofits avoid taxes—making your gift go further.

Add AWBW as a beneficiary using our legal name and tax identification number:
A Window Between Worlds
Tax ID #: 95-4448606

Life insurance is a simple, often overlooked way to create a legacy without costing you during your lifetime.

Legacy Scholarship - Planting the Seeds of Lasting Change

Establishing a legacy scholarship is a powerful way to ensure lasting access to AWBW’s transformative Facilitator Training and see the ripple effect of your investment through scholarship recipient testimonials and vision statements. By making a gift in your lifetime or providing for a scholarship in your planned gift, you can open doors for frontline healers—directing support to specific communities or issue areas that matter most to you.

Your initial investment creates a reserve fund that sustains annual scholarships in perpetuity. Each trained Facilitator goes on to reach an average of 100+ trauma survivors every year, with lifetime access to AWBW’s Community of Practice and digital healing tools—multiplying the impact of your legacy for generations to come.

Legacy Scholarship Options:

Annual Full Scholarship: $60,000
Creates a named scholarship in perpetuity covering the full cost to train one (1) new Windows Facilitator annually.

Annual Scholarship: $30,000
Creates a named scholarship in perpetuity covering half the cost to train one (1) new Windows Facilitator annually.

Join the Healing heARTs Legacy Society

When you include AWBW in your will or estate plans, you are invited to join the Healing heARTs Legacy Society—a special group of visionary supporters safeguarding the future of our mission.

As a Legacy Society member, you will receive:

A lasting legacy

Your gift keeps AWBW’s healing arts programs going and brings lasting hope and resilience to survivors and communities.

Recognition of your commitment

With your permission, we’ll recognize your generosity on our website and select materials—or honor your wish to remain anonymous.

Peace of Mind

Legacy gifts provide confidence that issues and communities important to you will continue to receive support and grow over time.

The Joy of Making a Difference

Feel proud knowing that your gift is helping create lasting change—nurturing healing, empowerment, and connection for generations to come.

In recognition of their visionary leadership and lasting generosity, we honor the members—past and present—of AWBW’s Legacy Society. Their commitment ensures that healing through creative expression will continue to reach individuals and communities for generations to come.

Healing Heart Legacy Society

Healing Heart Legacy Society: In Memoriam

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