Tag: Donor Advised Funds

By Michelle Lippart Hardwick We still have a little bit of autumn left before winter rolls in, and many people are thinking ahead to the holiday season. It’s the best time to start planning for any year-end giving you intend to do. As the director of gift planning for the Community Foundation, I help donors […]

People in the Fox Valley have no shortage of options for their philanthropic dollars. Many of our donors at the Community Foundation use their donor advised funds to support favorite charities across the country, including alma maters, organizations in the communities where they’ve lived in the past or have a second home, or charities in […]

As the year ends, it is the perfect time to reflect on what we are grateful for and consider charitable ways to give back to our community. You may be asking, why give to charity? In studies on the reasons people give, passion for a charity’s cause, a desire to give back, and helping make […]