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The Pension Protection Act of 2006 includes the first comprehensive regulation of donor-advised funds. These requirements generally took effect at the beginning of the tax year following enactment of the Act, for charities that hold assets in such funds. However, a provision barring the payment…
As President and CEO of Adirondack Foundation, in Lake Placid, New York, Cali leads efforts to unite people and resources in a rural region undergoing rapid transformation. With an influx of new, often more affluent and culturally diverse residents, the community foundation is stewarding a vision…
The Council's Government Affairs and Legal Resources team provided an overview of the IRS's proposed donor-advised fund (DAF) regulations. The proposed regulations clarify the definitions around DAFs, address excise taxes on taxable distributions made by a sponsoring organization from a DAF,…
Thank you for the opportunity to provide written testimony for the record on the subject of “Tax Tools for Local Economic Development.” We commend the Committee for holding a hearing on this pivotal topic as communities around the country continue to recover from the pandemic, natural disasters,…
About the Waldman Scholarship
In 2019, the philanthropic sector lost one of its brightest lights. As Vice President of Human Resources and Administration for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, David Waldman, advocated for and embodied the Foundation’s “culture of health,” ensuring that staff…
It’s been about a month since I returned from Los Angeles, where I attended the Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP) National Conference and the Council on Foundations Annual Conference. I am extremely grateful that those organizations partnered to provide “Stay in L.A.”…
Hundreds of miles from urban centers like Memphis, Atlanta, and New Orleans, the five counties served by the Community Foundation of East Mississippi are a textbook definition of “rural.” Cotton was king here years ago, but ever since it left—along with a good deal of the…
Philip Fitzgerald leads key partnerships for the Citi Foundation’s Action for Racial Equity and Pathways to Progress commitments. Before joining the Citi Foundation, he oversaw discretionary grantmaking, scholarships, private foundation services, special grantmaking initiatives, and grantmaking…