Why use the Community Foundation?
The Community Foundation of North Texas has a lot to offer - whatever your situation might be. Explore the possibilities.
Individuals
The Community Foundation is here to help you reach your charitable goals, whatever those might be.
- Build a personalized philanthropic plan with assistance from our expert staff, who will work with you to carefully understand your charitable goals and interests.
- Network with others with similar interests
- Use the Community Foundation's knowledge of our region and its nonprofits to enhance your giving
- Choose to remain anonymous, if that suits your giving style - we can protect your privacy and deflect much unwanted solicitation.
- Consider not only your lifetime giving, but your permanent legacy - it's easier than you think to craft a plan that keeps your family's name and legacy ongoing through future generations.
For a confidential consultation about a giving program to fit your needs, contact Nancy E. Jones by email NancyJones@cfntx.org or phone 817.877.0702.
Families
Bring your family together around giving and pass along your philanthropic values to the next generation with a fund at the Community Foundation of North Texas. We can:
- Help your family develop a mission statement and define charitable interests and goals
- Develop a list of organizations and programs that match your family's interests
- Facilitate annual family meetings to consider grants from your fund
- Support your personal development as philanthropists
- Handle all back-office work and reporting
For a confidential consultation about a giving program to fit your needs, contact Nancy E. Jones by email NancyJones@cfntx.org or phone 817.877.0702.
Businesses
Outsource the work of your corporate foundation or charitable program to the Community Foundation of North Texas; use a donor-advised fund to meet your goals without the administrative burden on your staff.
- Create a charitable program consistent with your business goals
- Involve staff as much or as little as you like in decisions about your charitable program
- Leave all the back-office work and reporting to the Community Foundation
Another advantage: ask us how to convert privately held stock or partnership interests into a tax-advantaged charitable fund.
For a confidential consultation about a giving program to fit your needs, contact Nancy E. Jones by email NancyJones@cfntx.org or phone 817.877.0702.
Foundations
The Community Foundation of North Texas has much to offer your foundation. Here are some ways that family and private foundations have used the Community Foundation to further their philanthropic goals.
- Invest for the maximum impact in an unfamiliar area, such as capacity building in the arts. The Community Foundation will run a strategic grant program in the area you choose.
- Contract with the Community Foundation to support your foundation with grant making and/or administrative services.
- Ensure the Foundation Founder's purpose will live on - despite the challenges faced by succeeding generations and faraway family members - by considering conversion to a fund at the Community Foundation of North Texas. Family may remain involved; perpetuity and consistency are ensured.
- Fulfill your payout requirement by contributing to a donor-advised fun at the Community Foundation of North Texas; take your time considering how the funds should be distributed to charities.
For a confidential consultation about a giving program to fit your needs, contact Nancy E. Jones by email NancyJones@cfntx.org or phone 817.877.0702.