We play a key role in addressing community needs, opportunities and dreams—now and in the future—in order to help make giving as effective as possible.

• We help individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofit agencies achieve their charitable and financial goals by providing tools and resources that make giving easy, flexible, and effective.
• We help donors create a charitable fund and recommend grants that support the issues and groups they care about.  (Types of Funds)
• We build endowments to ensure that grants are always available to support the community. (Current Funds)
• We provide an attractive alternative to starting a private foundation, handling all record keeping, reporting to the IRS, accounting, and investment management. (Foundation Comparison)
• We allow donors who establish a fund to benefit from the highest available tax deductions for charitable contributions. (Tax Advantages)
• We accept a variety of assets and facilitate complicated giving strategies.
• We foster greater giving and volunteering in our communities.
• We are governed by leaders with strong ties to their communities. (Our Leadership)
• We serve as community catalysts, convening diverse voices and groups to work on solutions to local issues.
• We ensure that future generations learn the value of giving back by enabling an individual or family to establish a named fund creating a family legacy.
• We pool the assets of individual funds, giving us economies of scale to work with top investment managers.
• We provide permanent recognition (or anonymity) for donors via named funds.
  
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