AMIGOS has touched the lives of thousands of alumni, parents, chapter leaders, and supporters over the past five decades. A bequest or other legacy gift is a meaningful way to leave a legacy with an organization that has played an important role in your life.
The Guy Bevil Legacy Society is named in honor of the founder of AMIGOS, Guy Bevil, who had the vision and drive to start the organization in 1965. We applaud Guy Bevil’s legacy as well as the foresight of our Legacy Society members who are securing our vision for future generations and the organization’s future success.
The Guy Bevil Legacy Society is designed to create a communication channel between our legacy donors and the organization.
You may designate your gift toward the area of greatest need, financial assistance, the AMIGOS endowment, or a specific program. If you have already made a legacy gift, please let us know so we can recognize you as a society member.
The Guy Bevil Legacy Society Intention Form can be downloaded here. For questions, please contact the AMIGOS Fund Development Team at impact@amigosinternational.org.
“When my son passed away a few years ago, I searched for ways to remember him, an AMIGOS volunteer in Costa Rica in 1992. It did not take long for me to decide that donations and a legacy gift to AMIGOS would both help allay my grief and honor my son’s commitment to the AMIGOS mission. I also came to realize that my support for youth programs in Latin America had come to reflect, and expand upon, my own interests. Over many years, my trips to Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala, while visiting my son, had shown me, up close, that young Americans abroad could both help others in need and build lifelong leadership skills grounded in community work experiences and relationship-building across cultures.
My commitment to AMIGOS has only grown as I have watched the organization respond to the need for innovative programs to meet challenges presented by the pandemic. I joined the Guy Bevil Legacy Society by committing to a legacy gift to help ensure that AMIGOS will thrive long into the future.”
My life changed when Guy Bevil spoke at my church when I was 15. I went on survey with him the next spring and to Guatemala in ’68, ’69, and ’70, Honduras in ’71, and Paraguay in ’72. AMIGOS changed my view of the world by making me a better person with more compassion, empathy, and a desire to do for others. At the beginning of my career, I wanted to help my community by building a much-needed recreation center. Guy Bevil and AMIGOS taught me to have a vision and stick with it! With the help of many others, we raised $9 million and built a 20,000 sq. ft. Center. I joined the Guy Bevil Legacy Society by committing to a $50,000 legacy gift. My donation will contribute to the future of AMIGOS volunteers and communities throughout Latin America. When you make a legacy gift to AMIGOS, you are throwing rocks in a pond that causes multiple ripples.”
