The Community Foundation personally knows–and regularly vets–hundreds of charities every year, and we can help you and your clients navigate the options for both local and international giving. 

Frequently, a donor-advised fund at the Community Foundation will be a suitable giving vehicle for your clients. Our team can help connect your clients to the causes they care about by identifying the most effective organizations addressing the critical needs both locally and globally in your clients’ areas of interest. Working with the Community Foundation also helps your clients secure robust tax planning benefits that can be missed when a client gives to charity on an impulse. 

The Community Foundation can help your clients steer clear of scams perpetrated via familiar-looking but sham websites and QR codes, both of which proliferate during highly emotional or threatening times surrounding a disaster. While your clients may be tempted to make a gift online or by phone out of compassion in response to a verbal solicitation or a news story, remind them that the Community Foundation has much to offer—safely, securely and advantageously—when it’s time to make impactful humanitarian gifts both here and abroad. 

While global disaster giving is important, it is also important for clients to stay tuned to the most critical needs right here in our community. Although these critical needs do not always take the form of a time-bound disaster, the impact of ongoing crises such as low access to health care and poverty can be quite damaging over the long term.