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Giving in honor of a friend or family member can be a great way to recognize their dedication to human rights, animal protection, environmental sustainability, and humane education. At your request, we can send a card in your name to the individual being honored. You can also do this in memory of someone who has passed and send the card to their loved ones.
We accept gifts of stock. This can be especially advantageous to you as a donor if held longer than one year since you avoid paying capital gains tax. You would also receive an income tax deduction for the market value of the gift.
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Planning a deferred gift to IHE is a powerful way to establish your legacy. Planned giving is not just for the wealthy or those with expertise in financial planning. It can be a simple way to leave behind a gift of any value to support the work and mission of IHE. Please contact our Executive Director, Steve Cochrane.
As previously mentioned, recurring gifts are hugely impactful, and you can do so monthly, quarterly, once per year, over a series of years, or however best meets your needs.
Brokerage Account Holder: Stifel
Account Name: Institute for Humane Education
Account Number: 2732-8899
DTC Number: 793
IHE Tax ID Number: 01-0530866
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“Changing the world one child at a time.” Those words have inspired my work for more than four decades in education, and they continue to inspire me now. We are at a pivotal point in the evolution of our world. We are facing a climate crisis, a health crisis, a crisis of racial justice, a crisis in our treatment of animals, a crisis of media bias. The list goes on. And perhaps our greatest crisis is our consistent struggle as a society to simply come together respectfully, intelligently, and ethically to solve our problems and save our planet. We need solutionaries. We need young people who have been educated not only to think critically, creatively, and systemically about real-world issues, but also to be passionate, persistent, and humane in their implementation of real-world solutions. And that is IHE’s mission: to support teachers and educational institutions in preparing young people to become solutionaries – and the next caretakers of our planet.
IHE offers a healing vision and a tangible pathway forward for a struggling world. As Executive Director, I am excited, humbled, and deeply honored to join with others to promote that vision and that pathway in ways that make them foundational to systems of education throughout the world – and to each child who is committed to making that world a better place.
Passionate about preparing young people to lead lives of joy and purpose, Steve Cochrane has had a remarkable journey through the field of education. It is a journey that has taken him from the campus of Princeton University, where he served as an admissions officer and an assistant dean of students, to the classroom of a public elementary school, where he had the privilege of teaching – and learning from – his fourth and fifth grade students. Steve has been a dorm director and associate dean of admissions at Wheelock College in Boston. He has also been an elementary school principal, a middle school principal, an assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, and, prior to his work at IHE, he was the superintendent of the Princeton Public Schools in Princeton, New Jersey where he was honored with the award of County Superintendent of the Year. In each of these roles, Steve has collaborated with others to prioritize innovations in learning, wellness for students, equity, and a belief that every child should be supported and inspired to achieve their highest potential.
Steve received his undergraduate degree in English from Princeton University and his master’s degree in educational administration from Harvard. He is a competitive road cyclist who also enjoys the thrill of mountain biking. Steve and his wife are both vegans and advocates for holistic health. They currently reside in Spencerport, New York, with their two dogs and a very large Maine Coon cat.
