By partnering with the Community Foundation, nonprofit agencies can focus on doing the work they do best -- positively impacting children and families, the arts and education, animals and the environment, and our community at large.

When you're ready to grow your agency's endowment, it's time to focus your valuable staff and board resources on marketing and solicitation efforts rather than on investment management and technical planned giving responsibilities. 

• The Community Foundation adds value to agency endowment programs by offering an investment program that small and midsized nonprofits simply cannot afford to duplicate without at least several million dollars in assets.
• Designing an investment policy, selecting an Investment Committee, and performing an extensive, thoughtful investment advisor search can be a major distraction for any agency. Many agencies get sidetracked with these duties and spend little time actually promoting and soliciting endowment gifts.
• Our staff provides hands-on assistance, allowing you to outsource your planned giving duties to our organization. We can confidently handle gifts involving complex assets, gift annuities, and trust arrangements.
• We have an experienced CPA on staff and have state-of-the-art accounting software designed specifically for the fund accounting needs of a community foundation. Your agency will receive a quarterly fund statement showing investment performance, new gifts, distributions, and the amount available for distribution.
• Agencies that have endowment funds with the Community Foundation benefit from the exposure to our family of donors and fund advisors. We share your story with our local philanthropic community and encourage them to support your agency's vision.

Contact our staff to learn how the Community Foundation can help your nonprofit agency grow a permanent source of funding to secure its future.

Nonprofit Agency Endowment Funds as of July 2010