Shape Your Family’s Legacy
- Personalized Charitable Fund: Coming together as a family to establish your fund at the Foundation is a powerful way to pass on and sustain a family tradition of giving.
- Expert Guidance: Our team helps your family create a charitable mission statement and craft giving strategies that carry on your values and interests.
- Accomplish Shared Goals: Your family’s fund at the Foundation ensures ongoing support for causes and organizations that mean the most to you. We make sure your gifts are used as intended.
- Involve Future Generations: Your loved ones can stay involved by advising on grantmaking from your family fund. We can also help them nurture and grow their philanthropy by creating their own funds.
- Save Time: With a family fund at the Foundation, you avoid the administrative duties of running a family foundation and get to focus on the joy of giving.
Your Family’s Charitable Fund
Creating a charitable fund at the Community Foundation fuels support for the causes and organizations that matter most to you and your family.
Our expert team helps your fund grow through careful investment. We ensure that grants from your fund are used as intended. Your fund is a powerful, easier alternative to running your own private foundation. We handle the financial management duties so you can focus on the joy of giving.
You can get started with a gift of $25,000 or more, which can come from a combination of family member contributions. And your family can opt to pledge over time. We have several types of funds for families to consider.
Helping Family Foundations
- Create a Companion Fund: Partner with us to enlist our grantmaking expertise and local knowledge. We help find innovative ways to accomplish your charitable mission.
- Amplify Your Impact: Leverage your family foundation’s giving with other philanthropists and funders who collaborate with us to pool resources.
- Strategic Grantmaking: A gift to your companion fund at the Foundation can fulfill your annual payout requirement in one transaction, allowing more time for impactful grantmaking decisions.
- Attend Engaging Events: Your family is invited to our fun, informative events where you learn about local issues and ways your support can make a lasting difference.
- ‘Sunset’ Planning: If needed, transfer remaining assets to your companion fund and our team will carry on your legacy of impact. With a Donor-Advised Fund, your family can stay involved by recommending grants.
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How 'The Great Transfer of Wealth' Can Transform Broward
Our community, like many across the nation, is in the midst of a historic transfer of wealth. In Broward alone, a staggering $55 billion is projected to change hands over the next decade as baby boomers pass their wealth to loved ones.
This life-changing economic phenomenon is also an opportunity to transform our community with increased local philanthropy.
Dedicating just 5 percent of this wealth transfer to new endowments could create sustainable, permanent support to tackle today’s big challenges and shape a brighter future.
Can transform Broward
Community Foundation events
We invite our philanthropy partners to fun opportunities to connect, learn and engage with the community we all love. Our events celebrate philanthropists, showcase what Broward has to offer and shine a light on opportunities to shape a brighter future.
IMPACT IN ACTION
See examples of how the Community Foundation partners with philanthropists to invest in innovation, transform lives and shape a brighter future for the community we love.
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Let’s get started!
Please contact Kelly Marmol, Vice President of Philanthropic Services, to talk about how you can partner with the Community Foundation to create a charitable fund that shapes a brighter future for Broward.
