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Why use the Community Foundation?

The Community Foundation of North Texas has a lot to offer - whatever your client's situation might be. Explore the possibilities.

Individuals

The Community Foundation is here to help your client reach their charitable goals, whatever those might be. We'll help them:

  • Build a personalized philanthropic plan with assistance from our expert staff, who will work with your client to carefully understand their charitable goals and interests.
  • Network with others with similar interests.
  • Share the Community Foundation's knowledge of our region and its nonprofits to enhance their giving.
  • Remain anonymous, if that suits their giving style - we can protect your privacy and deflect much unwanted solicitation.
  • Consider not only their lifetime giving, but their permanent legacy - it's easier than you think to craft a plan that keeps their family's name and legacy ongoing through future generations.

For a confidential consultation about a giving program to fit your client's needs, contact Nancy E. Jones by email NancyJones@cfntx.org or phone 817.877.0702.

Families

We help bring families together around giving and pass along their philanthropic values to the next generation with a fund at the Community Foundation of North Texas. We can:

  • Help families develop a mission statement and define charitable interests and goals.
  • Develop a list of organizations and programs that match a family's interests.
  • Facilitate annual family meetings to consider grants from their fund.
  • Support their personal development as philanthropists.
  • Handle all back-office work and reporting.

For a confidential consultation about a giving program to fit your client's needs, contact Nancy E. Jones by email NancyJones@cfntx.org or phone 817.877.0702.

Businesses

Outsource the work of a corporate foundation or charitable program to the Community Foundation of North Texas; use a donor-advised fund to meet goals without the administrative burden on your staff.

  • Create a charitable program consistent with business goals.
  • Involve staff as much or as little 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 client's 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 client's 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 client's needs, contact Nancy E. Jones by email NancyJones@cfntx.org or phone 817.877.0702.

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