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Announcing the 2024 Community Good Grant Recipients
Announcing the 2024 Community Good Grant Recipients.

Branch County Community Foundation
Oct 17, 2024


At a loss for words? Tips for starting a charitable giving conversation
Clients expect you to ask them about charitable giving. “Oh I do that,” you might say to yourself. But don’t be so sure!

Branch County Community Foundation
Oct 15, 2024


Not even the kitchen sink: Giving your house to charity is worth exploring
The team at the community foundation can help you evaluate the various options for giving the family home to charity.

Branch County Community Foundation
Aug 15, 2024


Up in the air: Charitable planning in a shifting tax landscape
Election years make it impossible to predict what might happen with tax laws. The Community Foundation can help you navigate!

Branch County Community Foundation
Jul 18, 2024


Making an Impact: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Charitable Giving this Summer
Welcome to summer! We've put together six tips to help plan your charitable giving for the coming months, years, and even decades.

Branch County Community Foundation
Jun 10, 2024


Getting creative: Three ways to support education
The community foundation can help you make a difference in the lives of young people by funding education.

Branch County Community Foundation
May 16, 2024


Fund types tailored to your client’s charitable goals
The community foundation offers charitable giving vehicles to meet a wide range of clients’ needs. In many cases, a single client can...

Branch County Community Foundation
Mar 6, 2024


Tips for serving clients who love local
Many clients, though, are also deeply committed to the local community where they’re living now, where they’ve raised their children, and wh

Branch County Community Foundation
Feb 8, 2024


FAQs: A snapshot of tax-time charitable giving questions
Here are three questions that are top of mind for many advisors, along with answers that can help you!

Branch County Community Foundation
Feb 8, 2024


Make the Most of Your Donor-Advised Fund
Life gets busy, the months fly by, and it's tempting to put your donor-advised fund on autopilot. But that would be a missed opportunity.

Branch County Community Foundation
Dec 8, 2023


Tax Planning: Get Ahead of the Year-End Rush
It’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with several important year-end charitable giving techniques and deadlines so you can be prepared.

Branch County Community Foundation
Nov 15, 2023


Clients want to know: What’s deductible and what’s not?
What’s deductible and what’s not? As you talk with clients about supporting their favorite charities in their estate plans...

Branch County Community Foundation
Oct 10, 2023


Unlock the Unexpected Power of Regret to Grow Your Charitable Giving
The experienced team at the community foundation can help you avoid charitable giving regrets, especially by making it easy for you to...

Branch County Community Foundation
Jul 16, 2023


Have your cake and eat it too: A dual approach to charitable giving
A donor-advised fund with a bequest provision, established at the community foundation, is a great solution for many donors.

Branch County Community Foundation
May 11, 2023


Hidden no more: Designated funds and field-of-interest funds
Although donor-advised funds cannot accept QCDs, the community foundation offers other types of funds that can accept QCDs. For example...

Branch County Community Foundation
Mar 8, 2023


The "i's" have it: Two key topics for client meetings
Inflation, interest rates, income tax, and the IRS are ever-present topics during discussions with your clients. Right now, there’s a lot to

Branch County Community Foundation
Oct 17, 2022


Nonprofit Sector Insights - October 2022
The nonprofit sector accounts for more than 12 million jobs in the United States, and job growth in the nonprofit sector in recent years has

Branch County Community Foundation
Oct 17, 2022


The BEAR Market
Here are three messages worth sharing with your philanthropic clients as bear market conditions hang on into the fourth quarter

Branch County Community Foundation
Oct 12, 2022


Hurricane Relief
n the wake of Hurricane Ian, your clients may ask you about their options to support those affected by the storm. We encourage you to reach

Branch County Community Foundation
Sep 30, 2022


Highly-Appreciated Stock
If your client missed the ideal window, it’s still not too late to support charity

Branch County Community Foundation
Sep 26, 2022
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