Plan your lifesaving legacy with Giving Docs

Start planning your gift to the animals today using Giving Docs.

Giving Docs provides a full suite of complimentary estate planning tools that make it easy and convenient to create your legacy gift to the animals right from the comfort of your home.

Use of Giving Docs is safe, secure, and free for life. This is our gift to you, and you are not required to leave a gift to Best Friends to create a will.

When you leave a gift to Best Friends Animal Society through your will or trust, you're ensuring that homeless pets know love and warmth not only today but far into the future. We can help you get started using Giving Docs.

A secure and simple way to give

Making your gift using Giving Docs provides a wide range of legacy planning tools to help you plan your gift.

We know that creating your will can feel daunting, but we want it to be as fast and easy as possible for you to create your legacy for the animals. That’s why we’re providing the Giving Docs tools you need to plan your gift at no cost. This is our gift to you, and you are not required to leave a gift to create a will.

When using the Giving Docs platform to make your gift to the animals at Best Friends, you’ll have access to tools specific to the type of gift you’d like to make.

Giving Docs provides tools for planning for your will/trust, codicil (update will), beneficiary designation assistance, retirement account, investment account, life insurance, bank account, durable power of attorney, advanced health care directive, qualified charitable distribution, donor-advised fund, and stock gifts.

Revocable living trusts are currently only available for California residents.

Hear what our supporters have to say about using Giving Docs

“It was just so easy. The fact that you can get a legal document done without the cost of an attorney is great, and Giving Docs makes sure that it’s done correctly per your state’s requirements. There’s a peace of mind when it’s done.”

Alida Collewyn, Best Friends supporter and friend to the animals

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Getting started with Giving Docs

In just a few short steps, you’ll be on your way to helping save homeless pets now and well into the future with your gift.

To get started, click on the link below to create your account on the secure Giving Docs site.

Create Your Account

Have questions? We’re here to help.

Planning your estate can raise a lot of questions, and Best Friends' planned giving team is always happy to answer your inquiries.

Please feel free to contact us by phone at 435-359-9227 or by email at legacy@bestfriends.org.

Karen Gallardo

Senior Director of Major and Planned Giving

Matt Claflin

Associate Director of Planned Giving

About Best Friends Animal Society

Best Friends is working to end the killing of dogs and cats in U.S. shelters in part by getting more pets out of shelters and into loving homes.

We’ve come a long way since the first known city reached no-kill in 1994, and now we’re closer than ever to making the entire country no-kill. Today, roughly 2,500 shelters are no-kill throughout the U.S. — and 700 more are just 100 pets or fewer away from reaching that milestone.

Best Friends is committed to working with passionate people like you to save homeless pets through adoption, volunteering, fostering, and advocacy. In addition to our lifesaving centers around the U.S, we also founded and run the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals.

Working together, we can save homeless pets in our communities and secure a better future for our best friends. Together, we will bring the whole country to no-kill.

Planning your estate using Giving Docs