Marketable Securities

Your broker can electronically transfer your securities to the IEEE Foundation. In writing you must notify your bank or broker that you “wish to make a gift/transfer of [number of] shares of [name of security or securities] to the IEEE Foundation.” Your broker should contact the IEEE Development Office by phone at +1 732-562-5349 or by email at donate@ieee.org to obtain a copy of our  DTC (Depository Trust Company) instructions.

If you have the physical securities, you may deliver them in person, by registered mail, or by courier to the address below. Be sure to include the following:

• Security certificate(s) without any endorsement, assignment, or other notations
• A letter stating the purpose of the gift
• In a separate envelope, mail a stock/bond power endorsed in black; make sure to fill in the line requiring your signature. Your name should appear exactly as it does on the face of the certificate(s). If possible, include a copy of the letter you sent with your certificate(s).

The value of your gift will be the average of the high and low trading prices on the day which you relinquish control of the security. In the case of electronic transfer authorization, it is the day on which the transfer occurred into the IEEE Foundation account, not the day you instructed your broker to make the transfer, or the day on which the stock was sold. In the case of physical delivery, it is the date on the postmark for mailing, or the day of in-person delivery.

The IEEE Foundation immediately liquidates all marketable securities donations turning the gift into cash providing immediate benefit to the IEEE program you are supporting.

Gifts of stock are transferred anonymously into the IEEE Foundation's brokerage account. In order to acknowledge gifts of this kind, we need your assistance! Please let us know by phone +1 732-562-5349 at or by email at donate@ieee.org that you have authorized transfer so we will credit your donation correctly.