Need a Guide on Your Philanthropic Journey?

The Jewish Community Foundation is dedicated to promoting personalized and values-based legacy planning.  We work closely with individuals and families in exploring, sharpening and focusing their charitable objectives. Our goal is to guide donors through a deliberate process of creating a vision for their philanthropy.

Private consultation

Our professional staff can help make your philanthropy more effective.

• Personal guidance in shaping your philanthropic vision
• Assistance in developing your funding goals and strategies
• Engagement of younger generation in philanthropic experience
• Counsel regarding intergenerational family dynamics
• Identification and screening of nonprofit organization and projects you or your foundation may want to fund

Tools for your philanthropy

We offer an array of tools and resources to help personalize your giving.

• Create a vision for your philanthropy using our questionnaire.
• Identify your values.
  The more your giving is aligned with your values, the more fulfilling and strategic your philanthropy can be. Which of the following values motivate your philanthropic decisions:
  

  Belonging, community, compassion, competence, courage, equality, family, freedom, friendship, helping, innovation, integrity, justice, leadership, loyalty, obligation, opportunity, personal growth, pleasure, power, recognition, responsibility, risk, spiritual growth, tolerance, and tradition?

  You can use Motivational Values Cards, to prioritize those values that most motivate your own philanthropic decisions and to catalyze discussions across generations.  They were developed by 21/64, a division of the Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and can be purchased at www.2164.net.
• Create a Giving Plan. 
  Use Giving with Goals, a  short, easy-to-use workbook developed by The Seattle Foundation, to identify your values, create a giving plan, evaluate nonprofits and involve your family. It Includes exercises and ideas for putting your plan into action.  

Special Programs 

Attend workshops and sessions on topics at the forefront of Jewish philanthropy. Programs for the year are currently in the development stage.

Find meaning in giving together

You can join one of our giving circles.