The Skip Li Honorary Endowment recognizes Agros founder Skip Li for his servant leadership, deep care for poor farming families, and dedication to breaking the cycle of poverty. This endowment fund is used to advance the holistic mission of Agros, for strategic initiatives that help Agros to innovate and find ways to best serve the poorest and hardest to reach families. Skip calls himself ‘an idea man.’ This endowment serves to honor his spirit of innovation, specifically applying these great ideas as part of our faith in action. We accomplish this by providing service to the poor that can radically change their lives and permanently break the cycle of poverty.
Skip’s Vision Endowment focuses on furthering innovative ways of reaching the poorest and hardest to reach families. By focusing on strategic initiatives, we can work to ensure that Skip’s dream will continue on forever. He tried something no one else was willing to do. It was courageous. The heart of Skip’s vision is the radical and daring step forward helping families, the endowment ensures it continues.
By making a gift to the endowment fund you are providing us with a steady stream of revenue to ensure the health and vitality of Agros for years to come. You can support the endowment with an outright gift to either the endowment fund or to the current use fund, you can also make a gift with your estate intentions.
An endowment is a consolidated pooled fund that lives on in perpetuity. The endowment is housed at the National Christian Foundation, and gifts made to the endowment are invested in the pool allowing for the principal of the gift to continually be invested and generate earnings. Those earnings are then used for Agros’ mission, and especially for support to areas that are innovative and helping Agros to reach families with the greatest need.
Skip’s endowment is consistent with Christian ministry values and the Agros Faith Statement.
What is the Endowment Current Use Fund?
Our endowment, housed at the National Christian Foundation, is a pooled fund that is invested to grow over time. Proceeds from the Endowment are then distributed to the Agros Skip Li Endowment current use fund for spending. The fund is spent in accordance to the guidelines of the Endowment, and its primary purpose of supporting strategic initiatives. Gifts can be allocated directly to the current use fund, to be spent right away. Current use gifts are not invested, but are instead supporting the work of today. We often see donors choose to invest their primary gift into the endowment, and make a smaller gift to the current use fund as a seed of their investment.
How to make a gift, and support the endowment.
Please connect with our Development team to assist you with the process of making a gift to the endowment. We can provide detailed instructions on how to invest your gift directly into the endowment fund.
We can accept the following gift vehicles in addition to cash gifts:
Types of Planned Gifts:
Non-Cash Gifts:
DAF Remainder Balance
Reach out to our Development team today if you wish to know more!
Contact Erin Cox at give@agros.org or call 206.528.1066
The story of Agros began in 1984 in Guatemala: in the mountainous Ixil triangle where impoverished families were emerging from hiding to rebuild their lives after a heinous civil war.
A man named Skip Li, a young Chinese lawyer living in Seattle, had felt called several years earlier to go to Guatemala. Hearing a Latino missionary speak of the desperate need for land access among the peasant farmers of Central America, he leaned in. The seeds of Agros, and the vision to reunite impoverished farmers with the land that was their livelihood and birthright, were planted.