We Maximize the Impact of Your Charitable Giving
Creating a charitable fund at the Community Foundation is simple, flexible, and tailored to your goals. Our expert team guides you every step of the way to ensure your philanthropy aligns with what matters most to you. We make giving easy and impactful, while keeping it local and creating a lasting legacy for our fundholders.
When you are ready to make a difference through the Community Foundation, we invite you to meet with our knowledgeable staff to help you identify and connect with what you care about most. We’ll help you make an impact with your philanthropy and maintain and grow your charitable legacy:
We’ll help you through these simple steps:
Define Your Goals
Decide where and how you want to make a difference. Whether your focus is broad or specific, we’ll help you identify opportunities that align with your values.
Choose What to Give
We accept a variety of assets, including cash, securities, real estate, life insurance, and retirement plan assets.
Select a Fund Type
Our options include donor-advised funds, designated funds, scholarships, area-of-interest funds, unrestricted funds, and more.
Decide When to Give
Establish your fund today to see its impact during your lifetime, or plan your giving through your estate—or both!
See the Impact
Once your fund is set up, we’ll help you monitor its growth and the positive change it creates in the community.
Gifts to the Community Foundation can be made in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes. Giving to the Foundation can be as simple as making a cash gift, in any amount, to one of the existing funds of the Foundation or as sophisticated as donating appreciated property to establish several different funds tailored to fit your philanthropic goals.
The Community Foundation’s staff will work with you to explore all of your options for philanthropy and choose those that work best for you. Take a look at the many flexible options we offer then see the many types of assets we accept as you plan your philanthropy.
Why Choose the Community Foundation?
We are a leader in charitable giving in the Lehigh Valley, receiving support from donors, managing funds to grow over time, and making high-impact grants to local nonprofits. We connect people like you with the causes you care about most.
Make Your Giving Easy | Making charitable gifts can be a joy but handling the administrative details and tax implications can be complicated. For those considering starting a private foundation (or already have), we offer the EverGreen Fund an alternative that saves you the expense, effort, and complication of establishing/operating your own foundation.
Maximize Your Impact | Drawing on our deep knowledge of the region and its nonprofits, our team can help you identify organizations whose missions align most directly with your interests. We will assist you in ensuring that you make your gifts in the way that yields the greatest tax advantage and impact.
Make Your Giving Local | LVCF is here to serve the Lehigh Valley and all its people. Our knowledge of local issues and organizations and our connections across the region make us a perfect choice for donors who want to make a difference right here.
Ensure Your Legacy | We are the ideal partner for donors who are also committed to long-term impact—who want their generosity to continue to do good after they are gone. We will understand your wishes and manage your funds accordingly.
ASK CARRIE | If you would like to find out how to make your charitable giving easy, local, and impactful contact Carrie.
Carrie Krug Nedick, CAP®
Director of Donor Services
840 West Hamilton Street, Suite 310, Allentown, PA 18101
610 351-5353 Ext. 10 | carrie@lvcfoundation.org