How To

Consider a Qualified Charitable Distribution

A Qualified Charitable Distribution (“QCD”) is a very smart way to support charitable causes. If you are over the age of 70 ½, you can direct up to $100,000 from your IRA to certain charities, including a field-of-interest, unrestricted, or…

Give the Gift of Giving Back

The Community Foundation can work with you to create and package a gift of a Community Foundation fund, pre-established and pre-funded, personalized in the name of your gift recipient. Your gift recipient can be a partner, child, grandchild, colleague, or…

“Checkout Charity”: What’s the right thing to do?

You’ve seen it most stores: “checkout charity” is the relatively new and fast-growing way for making charitable contributions. Checkout charity donations are often the result of spur-of-the-moment, periodic or one-time asks triggered by a tragedy, holiday, or cause. Solicitations can occur…

Bright spots amidst economic challenges

October 6, 2022 Bear markets are a challenge for almost anyone. But that doesn’t mean your charitable giving commitments have to be put on hold. If you are like many donors, you are still looking for ways to support the organizations you care…

Is the cost of event tickets deductible?

As charitable organizations emerge from pandemic restrictions, in-person fundraising events are beginning to rebound, especially athletic events that are held outside. This is a good time for a quick refresher course on the charitable deduction rules related to events, which…

Inherited IRAs: Big headache, or big opportunity? 

September 13, 2022 If you’re bewildered by something you’ve read recently about the IRS’s distribution rules for inherited IRAs, you’re not alone. What’s the back story? Until the law changed a few years ago, an individual who was named as…