The YouthBridge Community Foundation offers a variety of fund options to help you meet your philanthropic goals. You can establish a field-of-interest fund or select from one of the many offerings from YouthBridge.
Family Donor-Advised Funds - A personal approach to giving
Establishing
a Family Donor-Advised Fund allows you to make a gift to YouthBridge
then remain actively involved in suggesting uses for your gift. You can
work with our 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. These funds are often used to replace a private foundation
with a more flexible and less expensive way of giving.
Comparison of YouthBridge Family Donor-Advised Funds to a Private Foundation
Social Enterprise Development Funds - Investing in creative funding
Social Enterprise Development Funds are for the donor who wishes to foster social entrepreneurship and social enterprise for nonprofits so they can develop new ways of attaining financial sustainability. Funds are designated for social enterprise investment and are disbursed to charities of your choice.
Donor’s Designated Funds - Helping organizations sustain and grow
Establishing a
Designated Fund allows you to support the good work of a specific nonprofit
organization — a senior center, museum, or virtually any nonprofit charitable
organization. Because it’s given through your community foundation, your gift
provides the organization you select not only funding, but planned giving and
investment management services and the power of endowment.
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; our board awards
grants to community organizations and programs that are making a difference in
the area you select. Your gift stays flexible enough to meet community needs in
your interest area — even as they change over time.
The YouthBridge Sustainability Funds - Investing in children's charities
This fund is established to support the YouthBridge mission which is delivered through the three "E" initiatives of Education, Enterprise investments and Endowment Building.
Scholarship Funds - Investing in deserving students
By creating a Scholarship, you invest in your
community’s future and show students you care. YouthBridge 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.
Unrestricted Funds - Meeting ever-changing community needs
When you establish an
Unrestricted Fund, your gift can address a broad range of local children's needs —
including future needs that often cannot be anticipated at the time your gift is
made. We evaluate all aspects of children's 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 experts of YouthBridge to respond to the
community’s most pressing needs, today and tomorrow.
Endowment Funds - Endowing your nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organizations can also establish a Designated
Fund or agency endowment at the community foundation. It’s a simple and
efficient way to build an endowment — and help create sustainability — for your
nonprofit organization. The YouthBridge experienced staff can also
help your organization develop planned giving programs and assist with
investment management and administrative details.