Legacy is a reflection of one's life, values, and generosity. 
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Create a Fund

You can establish and name an endowment with its own unique purpose for a minimum initial contribution of $5,000.  Creating an endowment ensures your legacy will live on forever.

There are many types of funds you can establish:

Meet Future Challenges and Opportunities

The Community Foundation depends on its unrestricted assets not only to address the changing community needs, but also to facilitate innovative responses to issues and enhance the quality of life for all residents. When you establish an unrestricted endowment, your legacy provides support that is flexible and available to meet the challenges of tomorrow. 

Support a Visionary Cause

Field of interest endowments enable you to focus your giving on the issues and causes you care about most, such as youth, the environment, education, health care, the arts and more. With this type of fund, your gift remains flexible to meet community needs in your interest area—even as needs change over time.

Active Giving Approach

Donor advised endowments are convenient, flexible tools for individuals, families, or businesses that want to be personally involved in suggesting grant awards made possible by their gifts. If you have a range of community interests, you may find that it’s an ideal vehicle for fulfilling your charitable wishes. 

Designate Specific Charities

A designated endowment provides you a wonderful way to give back to one or more specific organizations that have touched your life. Your gift provides more than just funding—your favorite organization will benefit from the Community Foundation’s investment stewardship and ability to manage endowment funds.

Support Education

Scholarship endowments may be created as a memorial to someone special with eligibility criteria that exemplify that person’s goals and values. Or you may use one to express your own educational values—or those of your family or business.

Nonprofits Stabilizing the Future

For nonprofit organizations to ensure their future, the organization itself may create an organizational endowment. In doing so, the organization is able to increase the long-term stability of the organization and broaden community awareness for the need for support while remaining focused on their mission. In good times and bad, these organizations can count on permanent funding resources year after year.

Other Types of Funds

Non-Endowed Donor Advised Fund

This fund is a flexible and convenient option for donors who want to be actively involved in philanthropy, but may not have time to do the background work that goes into making informed charitable decisions. Donors make grant recommendations to the Community Foundation’s board of directors, while the Foundation takes care of the paperwork and check-writing. Because this fund is not a permanent endowment, the donor may recommend the Community Foundation distribute the entire fund to the nonprofit organizations of the donor’s choice. 

Supporting Organization

This is a special type of charitable organization that, based upon its relationship to the Community Foundation, is itself classified as a public charity. A supporting organization provides the flexibility desired by donors to meet their objectives.