Thank you for supporting the Braun Huts!
Rotary Club and the Aspen Senior Center enjoying the Fall Lindley Hut BBQ
Your gift will support our mission: “To sustain and protect a system of small, intimate huts for public use within the fragile, timberline environment centered in the upper Castle Creek Valley.”
You can also support the Braun Huts on ColoradoGives.org:
To mail us a check our address is:
Alfred Braun Hut System
P.O. BOX 7937 Aspen, CO 81612
The Alfred Braun Huts is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible. Our Tax ID number is: 84-1441504
Colorado Rocky Mountain School fall volunteer hut trip
Planned Giving:
To learn more about planned giving please reach out to our fundraising Chair, Craig Ward: 970-379-1254
There are many ways to give besides writing a check or giving online. Stocks, real estate, IRA distributions, and bequests are ways of giving that may offer significant tax advantages.
Stocks:
A gift of appreciated stock held for more than one year has a major advantage over a gift of cash—it lets you avoid the capital gains tax you would have paid if you sold the stock. If you itemize, you can deduct the full value of the gift, even though the appreciation has never been taxed. And when Braun sells the stock, we keep all the proceeds since we are tax exempt.
Real estate:
Similarly, you can deduct the full fair market value of appreciated real estate while avoiding any capital gains tax on the appreciation.
IRA distribution:
If you are over 70 1/2, a good option is an IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution, which allows you to direct some or all of your Required Minimum Distribution to us, and have that distribution excluded from your income for federal tax purposes—up to $105,000 per year for this favorable tax treatment.
Bequests:
Gifts made through your will allow you to leave a lasting legacy, while retaining full use of your property during your lifetime, so there are no immediate costs or impacts to lifestyle. Wills also allow flexibility in what you choose to leave: a specific sum of money, a specific asset, a remainder of your estate, etc. And you can of course change your bequest at any time.
Disclaimer:
The information above is for informational purposes only, and does not constitute legal, tax, or other professional advice—consult your advisors before making a planned gift to the Alfred Braun Hut System.
Please contact our fundraising Chair Craig Ward: 970-379-1254 or our Executive Director Morgan Boyles 970-948-8837 to discuss any of the above. It will be our pleasure to work with you and your advisors.
Summer 2024 Projects
This summer we will be upgrading solar systems at the Lindley and Tagert and replacing the solar system at the Green Wilson. We will also be sprucing up the Barnard by refinishing the floor, adding a recently donated wood stove (Thank you Ruthie Brown!). We will also be replacing some doors and windows at the Barnard and Tagert.
Thank you for your support of the huts and your help making them such a wonderful resource for our community!
Refinishing the floor at Markley, A new Door at Lindley, and Jes our solar guru upgrading the Goodwin Green Solar system.
Thank you for all of your help with our 2023 projects!
Here is the new floor and spruced up kitchen at the Lindley hut. Thank you for all of your support!
David and Wolf Gensch building a beautiful new bench at the Tagert Hut. Thank you David and Family!!
Wyatt Balderson hard at work processing firewood for the 2023-2024 winter:
Truck Fundraising Campaign Thank you for your support!
We have exciting news that a donor has pledged a $30,000 gift to help us fundraise for our new hut truck! Through Colorado Gives day and your generous help with other donations we were able to fundraise an additional $18,966 and purchase our new Hut truck. We are so thankful for everyone’s support!
Our beloved 2008 F-350 has seen many seasons in the high country delivering all of the wood, construction materials, and hut essentials for you, our hut community. In fact, this truck carried most of the Opa Hut over Taylor Pass to the helicopter staging area during it's construction in 2012.
A huge Thank You for your 2020 support!
When we reached out for your help this spring and summer we were able to raise $18,000! Amidst the uncertainty of the pandemic, cancelations, and the coming winter this enabled us to move forward with two essential repair projects to the foundations of the Tagert (1960) and the Barnard huts (1967).
New running footer and refinished floor at the Tagert Hut
Support under the Barnard Hut and added storage space
A donation of any amount will help us improve and sustain the hut experience we know and love for future generations.