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For clients who love local causes, Akron Community Foundation is the place

Most of your philanthropic clients support a wide variety of charities year after year. The causes they support represent a range of motivations, including personal experience, a role as a volunteer or board member, family tradition, or alignment with values...

Three scenarios to consider during tax season

As attorneys, CPAs and financial advisors, you are well aware that you have clients' attention when tax season rolls around. This makes it a great time to cover tax planning strategies for the current year and beyond. To help incorporate charitable giving...

What's on the legislative menu that could impact charitable giving?

With the advent of a new year and a new administration, what is going on that you need to know about to serve your charitable clients? At the top of the list of issues we're watching is the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017. As a quick refresher, the...

Philanthropy: It's a family thing

If you've not yet involved your children or grandchildren in your charitable giving, this is the year to consider it! Children of all ages can benefit from learning about philanthropy and how charities improve the quality of life for everyone. Indeed, many...

Doing your due diligence

The start of a new year often brings new opportunities to stay involved with the charities you love, whether as a donor, volunteer, board member, or all of the above. The staff at Akron Community Foundation is here to support your charitable endeavors, no...

Unrestricted gifts: Helping your donors break through the myths

The team at the community foundation frequently hears from nonprofit professionals about how difficult it is to communicate to donors the value and importance of unrestricted gifts. This is especially the case when you and your colleagues are striving to...

Five-point formula: Board members and endowment fundraising

Especially at the beginning of a new year, the team at the community foundation fields a lot of questions from fundraising professionals about strategies for increasing gifts to an organization's endowment fund. Not surprisingly, a very common question is...

Five of the most-asked questions about Qualified Charitable Distributions

Qualified Charitable Distributions, or "QCDs," are becoming a very popular financial and charitable planning tool. At the same time, QCDs are growing as the source of more and more confusion. Here are answers to the questions we've been asked most frequently...

Doubling down: More good in your retirement years

If you've reached or are nearing retirement age, you may be evaluating how charitable giving fits into your life in a bigger way than it did during your working years. If you've found that you have more time, more money, or both, now that work and raising...

Unwrapping Generosity: Donor's Birthday Benefits Local Children

The youngest of five siblings, Momoe Garland was born on March 4, 1944, in Fukuoka, Japan, but for the past 53 years has built her family, career and life in Akron, Ohio. After arriving in the United States in the 1970s, Momoe worked for a time at a...

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