Setting up a New Fund

The staff at the Midland Area Community Foundation will gladly schedule a time to discuss your personal philanthropic goals and suggest an option that is meaningful to you.

Donor Advised Funds

A personal approach to giving.

Establishing a Donor Advised Fund allows you to make a gift to your community foundation then remain actively involved in suggesting uses for your gift. 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.

Unrestricted Funds

Meeting ever-changing community needs.

When you establish an Unrestricted Fund, your gift can address a broad range of local needs — including future needs that often can not be anticipated at the time your gift is made. We evaluate all aspects of community well-being: arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health and human services, neighborhood revitalization, and more. The flexibility of your unrestricted gift enables your community foundation’s program experts to respond to the community’s most pressing needs, today and tomorrow.

Field of Interest Funds

Connecting personal values to opportunities.

By establishing a Field of Interest Fund, you can target your gift to address needs in an important area of community life. Arts. 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.

Scholarships

Investing in deserving students.

In creating a Scholarship, you invest in your community’s future and show students you care. Your gift can help students achieve their lifetime dreams.

Designated Funds

Helping local organizations sustain and grow.

Establishing a Designated Fund allows you to support the good work of a specific nonprofit organization — a senior center, museum, library 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.

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.

Pinecone Funds

Starting small.

A pinecone fund allows a you to begin a fund and build it up to the $5,000.00 minimum over five years.

Last updated on August 31, 2009 1:17pm.