Community Funds – Unrestricted

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Meeting ever-changing community needs.

When you establish an unrestricted Community Fund your gift can address a broad range of local 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.

Because you set no restrictions on the use of your gift, it enables our experienced program staff and board to do what they do best — assess community needs each year and respond by awarding grants to the nonprofit organizations that undertake our community’s most critical work. Community Funds enable your community foundation to support long-term solutions; respond quickly to emergencies; and meet changing social, cultural, educational, or environmental needs in our local community.

Grants are made in the name of the fund you establish, creating your personal legacy of giving. You may give your gift immediately or through your will or other estate planning strategy. Your endowed gift becomes a permanent community funding resource.

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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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