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Unrestricted Funds
Meeting
ever-changing community needs.
When you establish an
Unrestricted Fund, your gift can address a broad range of
local needs - including future needs that often cannot be
anticipated at the time your 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 unrestricted gift enables your community
foundation's program experts to respond to the community's
most pressing needs, today and
tomorrow.
Field of Interest Funds
Connecting
personal values to high-impact opportunities.
By
establishing a Field of Interest Fund, you can target your
gift to address needs in an important area of community life.
Arts. AIDS. Aging. At-risk youth. You identify your personal
interest area when making your gift; our board awards grants
to community organizations and programs that are making a
difference in the area you select. Your gift stays flexible
enough to meet community needs in your interest area -
even as they change over time.
Scholarships
Investing in
deserving students.
In creating a Scholarship, you
invest in your community's future and show students you care.
Your community foundation provides the expertise to help you
meet your personal goals and awards Scholarships to deserving
students. Your gift can help students - from preschool to
postgraduate - achieve their lifetime dreams.
Designated Funds
Helping
local organizations sustain and grow.
Establishing a
Designated Fund allows you to support the good work of a
specific nonprofit organization - a senior center,
museum, your church, or virtually any nonprofit charitable
organization. Because it's given through your community
foundation, your gift provides the organization you select not
only funding, but planned giving and investment management
services and the power of endowment.
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 your nonprofit organization. The
community foundation's experienced staff can also help your
organization develop planned giving programs and assist with
investment management and administrative details.
Donor Advised
Funds
A personal approach to
giving.
Establishing a Donor Advised Fund allows you
to make a gift to your community foundation then remain
actively involved in suggesting uses for your gift. You can
work with the community foundation's professional program
staff to suggest ongoing uses for the fund - targeting
the issues you care about most. Grant awards are issued to
charities in the name of the fund (or anonymously if you
prefer). It's a simple, powerful and highly personal approach
to giving.
Supporting
Organizations
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. You select
some of the board members, maintain personal involvement, and
support the causes you care about most while enjoying the
favorable tax treatment of a public charity. Leave investment
management, startup costs, grant administration, and reporting
to your community foundation.
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