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Great giving options. We can help you choose the one that’s right for your client.
A personal approach to giving.
Establishing a Donor Advised Fund allows your client to make a gift to their community foundation then remain actively involved in suggesting uses for his or her gift. You and your client can work with the community foundation’s professional program staff to suggest ongoing uses for the fund — targeting the issues your client cares about most. Grant awards are issued to charities in the name of the fund (or anonymously if your client prefers). It’s a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving.
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Meeting ever-changing community needs.
When your client establishes an Unrestricted Fund, his or her gift can address a broad range of local needs — including future needs that often cannot be anticipated at the time the gift is made. We evaluate all aspects of community well-being: arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health and human services, neighborhood revitalization, and more. The flexibility of your client's unrestricted gift enables the community foundation’s program experts to respond to the community’s most pressing needs, today and tomorrow.
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Connecting personal values to high-impact opportunities.
By establishing a Field of Interest Fund, your client can target his or her gift to address needs in an important area of community life. Arts. AIDS. Aging. At-risk youth. Your client identifies his or her personal interest area when making theif gift; our board awards grants to community organizations and programs that are making a difference in the area selected. The gift stays flexible enough to meet community needs in your client's interest area — even as they change over time.
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Investing in deserving students.
In creating a Scholarship, your client invests in his or her community’s future and shows students he or she cares. The community foundation provides the expertise to help your client meet personal goals and awards Scholarships to deserving students. Your client's gift can help students — from preschool to postgraduate — achieve their lifetime dreams.
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Helping local organizations sustain and grow.
Establishing a Designated Fund allows your client to support the good work of a specific nonprofit organization — a senior center, museum, or virtually any nonprofit charitable organization. Because it’s given through the community foundation, your client's gift provides the organization he or she selects not only funding, but planned giving and investment management services and the power of endowment.
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Endowing your nonprofit organization.
Nonprofit organizations can also establish a Designated Fund or agency endowment at the community foundation. It’s a simple and efficient way to build an endowment — and help create sustainability — for a nonprofit organization. The community foundation’s experienced staff can also help an organization develop planned giving programs and assist with investment management and administrative details.
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High impact, high involvement, low hassle.
A Supporting Organization is an excellent alternative to a private foundation — with only a fraction of the administrative responsibilities. Your client selects some of the board members, maintains personal involvement, and supports the causes he or she cares about most while enjoying the favorable tax treatment of a public charity. Leave investment management, startup costs, grant administration, and reporting to the community foundation.
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