For clients who love local causes, GCF is your trusted partner
Most of your philanthropic clients likely support a wide variety of charities year after year, and represent a range of motivations, including personal experience, a role as a volunteer or board member, family tradition, or alignment with values and community priorities. Especially when the organizations your clients support are local, you can lean into GCF’s unique position as a hub for charitable giving and local knowledge.
Three Reasons GCF is Your Trusted Partner
- Clients can tap into our knowledge about specific organizations, including financial information, data about the impact of a charity’s programs, and observations of an organization’s areas of greatest need.
- GCF offers more than just donor advised funds. Clients can choose from a variety of fund types depending on what they’d like to achieve. A designated fund, for example, allows your client to set aside tax-deductible dollars that are dedicated to supporting a specific organization. Through GCF’s services, funds are distributed over time to the charity while the assets remaining in the fund are protected from the charity’s creditors. Another example is an unrestricted fund, which leverages our team’s extensive research about the needs of the community and the nonprofit programs that are addressing those needs.
- Clients can work with GCF to leave a bequest to an endowment fund to support community needs for generations to come. As a perpetual organization, we ensure that charitable giving stays strong in our region to address important needs as they evolve over time.
Of course, if your client establishes a donor advised fund at GCF, that fund can support local causes as well as causes across the country. As a trusted partner for your clients’ charitable giving, our tools and our team are dedicated to helping your clients achieve their charitable goals both near and far. Working with a local community foundation like GCF, no matter what a particular client’s charitable priorities may be, is itself a strong show of support for philanthropy right here in our community.
