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Community Funds - Unrestricted
Your gift can address ever-changing community needs - including future needs that often cannot 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.
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Community Funds - Field of Interest Funds
You can target your gift to address needs in an area of community life that is important to you.  Arts.  Education.  Environment.  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.
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Scholarships
You can invest your gift in our community’s future and show students you care, all with the guidance and personal services of your community foundation.  You determine the criteria students must meet to receive the Scholarship you establish.  With your assistance, students achieve their academic and career-oriented goals – from preschool to postgraduate work.
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Designated Funds
You can direct your gift to a specific nonprofit organization or purpose.  Help provide ongoing funding for a community center, museum, health care program, or virtually any nonprofit charitable organization.  Nonprofit organizations can create their own fund through the community foundation to build their endowment and enhance their ability to accept large and complex gifts.
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Donor Advised Funds
You can have ongoing involvement in the use of your gift.  You work with our professional program staff, identifying ways to use dollars from the Donor Advised Fund you establish to address the issues and needs you care about most.  Your recommendations are submitted to our local board for approval; we then distribute grant dollars according to your intentions.
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Supporting Organizations
You can use your gift to establish an excellent alternative to a private foundation — with only a fraction of the administrative responsibilities. You select some of the board members, maintain personal involvement, and support the causes and organizations you care about most while enjoying the favorable tax treatment of a public charity. Leave investment management, startup costs, grant administration, and reporting to your community foundation.
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There is so much more we’d like you to know. For more information and ideas on ways to integrate your financial planning with charitable giving, ask your financial advisor or contact Cumberland Community Foundation mary@cumberlandcf.org or 910-483-4449.

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