Ways to Give
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Charitable Funds
Great giving options. Choose the one that’s right for you.
Donor-Advised Funds
A personal approach to giving
Establishing a Donor-Advised Fund allows you to make a gift to the Sacramento Region Community Foundation and remain actively involved in suggesting uses for your gift. You can work with the Foundation’s professional program staff to suggest ongoing uses for the fund—targeting the issues you care about most. Grant awards are issued to charities in the name of the fund (or anonymously if you prefer). It’s a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving.
Unrestricted Funds
Meeting ever-changing community needs
When you establish an Unrestricted Fund, your gift can address a broad range of local needs— including future needs that often cannot be anticipated at the time your gift is made. We evaluate all aspects of community well-being: arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health and human services, neighborhood revitalization, and more. The flexibility of your unrestricted gift enables the Foundation’s program experts to respond to the community’s most pressing needs, today and tomorrow.
Field of Interest Funds
Connecting personal values to high-impact opportunities
By establishing a Field of Interest Fund, you can target your gift to address needs in an important area of community life - arts, AIDS, aging, at-risk youth. You identify your personal interest area when making your gift and the Foundation awards grants to community organizations and programs that are making a difference in the area you select. Your gift stays flexible enough to meet changing community needs in your interest area.
Scholarships
Investing in deserving students
In creating a Scholarship Fund, you invest in your community’s future and show students you care. The Foundation provides the expertise to help you meet your personal goals and awards Scholarships to deserving students. Your gift can help students—from preschool to postgraduate—achieve their lifetime dreams.
Designated Funds
Helping local organizations sustain and grow
Establishing a Designated Fund allows you to support the good work of a specific nonprofit charitable organization. You name the organization and the terms of your gift and we distribute the grants accordingly.
Endowing your nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organizations can also establish a Designated Fund or agency endowment at the Foundation. It’s a simple and efficient way to build an endowment—and help create sustainability—for your nonprofit organization. The community foundation’s experienced staff can also help your organization develop planned giving programs and assist with investment management and administrative details.
Giving Circles
Giving Circles are usually donor-advised funds, in which a group of people come together to support a specific cause, idea or geographical area. Together, the Giving Circle contributes resources and ideas and works on solutions to community issues.
Memorial Funds
Memorial Funds are an option to honor a loved one by creating a fund in their name that supports the non-profit community.
Supporting Organizations
High impact, high involvement, low hassle
A Supporting Organization is an excellent alternative to a private foundation—with only a fraction of the administrative responsibilities. You select some of the board members, maintain personal involvement, and support the causes you care about most while enjoying the favorable tax treatment of a public charity. Leave investment management, startup costs, grant administration, and reporting to the Sacramento Region Community Foundation.
There is so much more we’d like you to know. For more information and ideas on ways to integrate your financial planning with charitable giving, ask your financial advisor or contact Shirlee Tully, Chief Marketing and Development Officer at shirlee@sacregcf.org or 916-921-7723.
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