A brand new set of fact sheets about charitable giving through GCF that you can view online or download and print for yourself or your clients.
Make the Most of Your Giving A quick overview of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, what community foundations do, and what GCF has to offer to donors.
Giving Back to the Community You want to make charitable gifs to the community, but you want to make sure your contributions have an impact. To accomplish your goals, you need a strategy that effectively manages your resources, from planning your gift to selecting grant recipients. Personal and family charitable giving strategies are GCF's core competency. Working with you, or with your professional financial advisor, we create plans that meet your interests and needs.
Building a Better Community Together To help businesses maximize their return on community investment, GCF offers comprehensive and flexible support services for charitable giving. As your community foundation partner, we are comitted to making a real impact and responsible stewardship of resources. We help companies meet their charitable goals by providing administrative and financial support services for charitable giving as well as information on critical community issues.
Enhancing the Quality of Life in Clermont County GCF teamed with Clermont 20/20 leaders in 1993 to create The Clermont Community Fund of GCF. Through the contributions of local residetns, the leadership of the Fund's Advisory Board and GCF's resources, grants totaling nearly $7 million have been awarded to organizations serving Clermont County.
Making a Positive Impact in Northern Kentucky In 1998, GCF teamed up with local leaders through the Forward Quest initiative (now Vision 2015) to establish The Northern Kentucky Fund of GCF. This permanent endowment brought together diverse donors with a common goal of enhancing the quality of life in this community. Since then, the Fund has been making a positive impact in Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties, helping create a healthy and vital community through philanthropy.
Enhancing the Lives of Women and Girls Created specifically to improve the quality of life for women and girls, The Women's Fund of GCF provides grants that support local nonprofit organizations. The fund offers an opportunity for those interested in women's issues and programs to be confident their charitable contributions will make an impact.
A Legacy of Giving You can support the community you care about in many ways, and provide a future charitable gift can be a significant one. Creating a future gift plan allows you to maintain your personal charitable interest forever.
Choosing a Charitable Fund In charitable giving, each gift is unique. Every donor has different philanthropic interests and priorities as well as a different financial situation. To meet that variety of needs, GCF offers the flexibility of four strategic giving options: donor advised funds, restricted funds, field of interest funds, and unrestricted funds.
Maximizing the Benefits of Your Gift GCF can help you determine the best way to make a charitable gift. We have a variety of tools to meet your needs and maximize the benefits of your contribution - so you receive the greatest return on your community investment.
Comparing Giving Strategies When you have decided to make a charitable gift, you want to be sure it meets both your interests and your financial needs. Choosing the right partner can help you support the organizations you value while effectively managing your contributions. Compare three popular approaches to actively managing your charitable giving.
A Personal Approach to Giving When you make a charitable gift, you want to be highly involved in where the money goes. You also want the flexibility to support different charities at different times. If these are important issues for you, a donor advised fund from GCF can be the solution.
Making a Difference Together Changing the lives of people and communities in the Greter Cincinnati region through philanthropy is a goal The Greater Cincinnati Foundation shares with many private and family foundations. We know that, while it is rewarding, the grantmaking process of our foundation can also be challenging and time-consuming. To enhance and facilitate community giving, GCF offers grantmaking services for private and family foundations.
