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Sample Donor-Advised Fund Agreement
Sample Document
Editable agreement for donor-advised funds.
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Sample Designated Fund Agreement
Sample Document
Editable sample agreement between a donor and a community foundation to establish a designated fund.
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Sample Community Foundation Confidentiality Policy
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Editable confidentiality document specifically tailored for community foundations.
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Sample Scholarship Policies and Procedures
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Sample scholarship fund policies and procedures outlining selection of grantees, selection criteria, grant selection committees, and more.
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Sample Whistleblower Policy
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Editable whistleblower policies that establish procedures to prevent or detect and correct improper activities; encourage each foundation director, officer, employee, and volunteer to report what he or she in good faith believes to be a material violation of law; ensure the receipt, documentation,…
Sample Agency Endowment Agreement
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Editable agency endowment agreement for community foundations in corporate form.
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CDFI Fund Map of All Census Tracts Eligible for Designation as a Qualified Opportunity Zone
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The CDFI Fund has identified over 41,000 population census tracts that are eligible for designation as a QOZ, including (1) 31,680 population census tracts that are Low-Income Communities (LICs) eligible for designation as QOZs; and (2) 9,453 non-LIC population census tracts that are eligible for…
US Impact Investing Alliance Resources on Opportunity Zones
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Now that Opportunity Zones have been designated, individual and corporate investors are then given the opportunity to defer capital gains taxes when they reinvest the earnings in these communities. Additional incentives accrue over five, seven and ten years if the investment is maintained – thereby…
How Community Foundations Can Use the Opportunity Zone Tax Incentive for Community Development?
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This white paper from the Community Foundation Public Awareness Initiative discusses a timely and significant opportunity for community foundations (CFs): How they can use the recently enacted federal Opportunity Zone tax incentive to benefit communities in need by leveraging their knowledge of…
Community Foundations, Meet Opportunity Zones
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Guest writer Adam Northup, LOCUS Advisor, shares what every Community Foundation should know about Opportunity Zones. Created by the new tax law, this new tool has the potential to revitalize left behind communities.
Mission Investors Exchange Opportunity Zones Resources
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The OZ program is intended to spur long-term investments in low-income census tracts in the U.S. The new law allows investors to place unrealized capital gains (a profit from an investment that hasn’t yet been sold) into authorized O Funds that invest capital into OZs. The greatest benefits would…
LOCUS National Opportunity Zones Ranking Report
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With the creation of the federal Opportunity Zones incentive program, trillions of dollars in new private investment will flow into pre-designated low-income communities around the country. But will this investment benefit the people living in these communities now, or will they be displaced as new…
Department of the Treasury Opportunity Zones Resources
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Treasury and IRS have issued an initial set of proposed regulations and guidance on how the Qualified Opportunity Zone tax benefits under IRC 1400Z-2 (including the certification of Qualified Opportunity Funds and eligible investments in Qualified Opportunity Zones) will be administered.…
Sample Scholarship Award Letter
Sample Document
Editable scholarship award letter to be sent to selected grantees.
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Sample Social Media Policy
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Editable internal polices for staff, board members, and committee members about the use of social media.
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The State of Religious Diversity in America
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As the United States faces division over the increasing religious diversity in the nation, faith leaders and philanthropists came together in 2018 to discuss #ThisAmericanMoment. The event, This American Moment: Bridging Religious Divides, was co-hosted by the Council on Foundations, The…