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2009 Survey on Donor Advised Funds: Donor Advised Funds Provide the Majority of Grant Funds Awarded by Community Foundations

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Donor-advised funds are increasing in number and importance in the U.S. as more individuals, families, and organizations adopt this vehicle of philanthropic giving. A donor-advised fund enables a third party, usually a community foundation or other institution, to manage and distribute funds to…

Component Funds: The Absence of Material Restrictions

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This document outlines the basics of component funds, field of interest funds, donor-advised funds, and restrictions around these funds.

Creating an Inactive Funds Policy

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Imagine the following scenarios: A donor advisor has not made a recommendation from a donor advised fund for two years. An agency has requested that your community foundation not make a distribution from an agency endowment until the agency requests a distribution at some point in the…

Foundations for Civic Impact: Advocacy and Civic Engagement Toolkit for Community Foundations

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This toolkit is designed for community and public foundations that want to support grantee involvement in civic and policy activities to increase organizational capacity and impact. While its primary focus is on the grantmaking activity of these foundations, the toolkit also addresses rules and…

Foundations for Civic Impact: Advocacy and Civic Engagement Toolkit for Private Foundations

https://cof.org/content/foundations-civic-impact-advocacy-and-civic-engagement-toolkit-private-foundations
This toolkit is designed for private foundations that want to support grantee involvement in civic and policy activities to increase organizational capacity and impact. While its primary focus is on the grantmaking activity of foundations, the toolkit also addresses rules and guidance for policy…

International Grantmaking from Donor Advised Funds

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In existence since the 1930s, donor advised funds have been one of the fastest growing charitable giving vehicles of the past decade.[1] Capitalizing on this growth and on the increasing interest in international philanthropy among donors in the United States, a number of public charities have…

More than Money: Making a Difference with Assistance Beyond the Grant

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From the Center for Effective Philanthropy, most of foundations’ efforts to contribute ‘beyond the money’ have little beneficial impact on grantees. More than Money: Making a Difference with Assistance Beyond the Grant reveals that only when foundation staff provide assistance beyond the grant in…

When to Say “No” to Fulfilling Personal Charitable Pledges

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Your giving program looks like a convenient vehicle for fulfilling personal charitable pledges. Here’s what you need to know about when to say “no.” The board of the ABC Family Foundation is considering a number of suggested grants, including a contribution to the local symphony’s capital…

Considerations for Working With 501(c)(3) NIL Collectives

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More than 120 “NIL collectives” have been established in the U.S., many of them as tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, to raise funds and enter into agreements that compensate student-athletes at specific higher-education institutions in exchange for using the student-athlete's name,…

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