Donating Stocks

End Of The Year Giving: A Tax Break For You While Helping WDP

How Do I Donate Stock?

Stock donations are a great end of the year gift! You can donate stock to WDP at any time throughout the year. Check with your tax advisor to see if you can benefit from this tax-deductible donation.

Please read the below PDF article about stock donations written by Axel Stepan, a Board Member for the Wild Dolphin Project.

Donating Stock to WDP

Donating Stock from a Fidelity Investments Account to WDP

If you would like to donate stock to WDP and your shares are being moved within Fidelity, download, fill out, and authorize a one-time internal securities journal (you can download the form below). You will have to call our field office at 561-575-5660 to obtain our account information before submitting documentation. You can send the securities journal to Fidelity Investments as instructed on the downloadable form.

Download Here – Fidelity

Contact Information for Fidelity Investments:

Below is Fidelity's contact information should you have questions about transferring stocks.

Fidelity Investments
100 Crosby Parkway
Covington, KY 41015

Customer Service: 800-544-6666

Donating Stock from an Outside Brokerage Firm to WDP

If you would like to donate stock to WDP and your shares are being moved from outside of Fidelity you will need to contact your brokerage firm and ask them for a DTC Transfer. You will also need to provide them with our account information, which you can obtain by calling our field office at 561-575-5660.

All donations are tax deductible as allowed by law. Consult your tax advisor for more information.

Did you Know

Spotted dolphin calves are unspotted and look like young bottlenose dolphins.

Spotted dolphins regurgitate hard, indigestible parts of their food, such as squid beaks and fish vertebrae.

As spotted dolphins grow up they learn how to behave from their mothers and also from siblings, peers, and elders in the society.

Juvenile spotted dolphins babysit younger spotteds.

As a spotted dolphin grows up, its role and responsibilities in the dolphin community change Sometimes spotted dolphins travel, forage for food, and socialize with bottlenose dolphins.

 

Atlantic spotted dolphins are relatively unstudied, compared to their pan-tropical cousins who have been slaughtered in the tuna nets.

Spotted dolphins use their signature whistles in many different ways, including initiating contact with other dolphins.

Spotted dolphins can be identified over long periods of time by spot patterns, by flukes, and by dorsal fins.

For further learning, visit the Dolphin Communication, Dolphin Videos, Scientific Publications pages and watch our latest documentary from PBS’s Changing Seas series, Dolphins: Breaking The Code” and Dr. Herzing’s TED Talk.

Education

Dolphin Word Search Puzzle
Answer the questions and search for their answers in the word search puzzle.

Dolphin Food Pyramid
Match the names of the prey to their pictures in the Dolphin Food Pyramid.

Dolphin Picture
Label the parts of the dolphin and color! Think of other animals that share the ocean with the dolphins, like predators and prey, and draw them in. Are there researchers in your picture?

Interested in Careers in Marine Mammal Science?
Visit the Society for Marine Mammalogy Careers page for more information.

To report a marine mammal stranding please call 1-888-404-FWCC

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