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Why
Give to a Community Foundation?
Community foundations are able to put
your gifts, small and large, to work for local needs
and programs. Community Foundations specialize in working
closely with donors to fulfill your charitable vision
through:
Personalized service, helping individuals, families,
businesses, and nonprofit agencies achieve their charitable
and financial goals with maximum tax advantages. You
shape and design your fund's giving focus, and even
help recommend grant and scholarship awards.
Local expertise, maintaining an in-depth
understanding of your community's needs and challenges—and
the groups and individuals addressing them. Gifts to
your local community foundation provide you with a network
of talented professionals and volunteers who are committed
to and knowledgeable about your community.
Community leadership, working with local leaders to
build endowment, ensuring that grants are always available
to support the community. That means your gifts build
and strengthen your community, today, tomorrow, and
forever.
Gifts to your local community foundation
positively affect your hometown's economic development,
strengthen conservation initiatives, preserve historic
resources, enhance education programs, assist with health
and wellness programs, and more. Here are ten reasons
why donors find it fulfilling to give to a community
foundation.
Community foundations . . .
- Build endowment funds that grow and benefit our
community, forever.
- Help create an individual or family legacy.
- Offer donor involvement in selecting charities.
- Are a local organization meeting a broad range
of changing local needs.
- Provide a simple way to fulfill multiple charitable
interests, with low-cost administration.
- Deliver personalized donor service with flexible
options and responsive advantages.
- Accept a wide variety of assets.
- Offer maximum tax advantages.
- Preserve donor intent even when community needs
and organizations change.
- Are known for prudent stewardship and investment
practices.
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