You’ve no doubt noticed that donor-advised funds have been featured more prominently over the last few weeks in financial and wealth management publications. That’s in part because the Accelerating Charitable Efforts Act was reintroduced in the House of Representatives on February 3, 2022.
WEPOWER Thinking Bigger for Kids • Jefferson County Library • Nonprofit Merger Announcement • Creativity–and caution–are critical in the digital age • Big gifts are getting bigger • Tax reform and what it means for charitable giving strategies
The Jefferson County Library has big plans. After the disruption of COVID, the library district is back on track with its growth strategies including the opening of a fourth branch later this year, the development of programs and services for users from preschoolers to older adults, and its reliance on technology to elevate its impact on the community.
When WEPOWER was awarded a $150,000 Think Big for Kids grant by YouthBridge in 2020, it was an investment in change. Change led by communities of color for communities of color in the system disparities that are limiting their potential to thrive. “The funding has been transformational,” says Charli Cooksey, WEPOWER Founder and CEO. “At the same time, YouthBridge has proven themselves more than a funder, but a real champion of our work.”
YouthBridge Community Foundation, through it’s 2021 Recovery and Resilience Mergers or Partnership Grant, supported the merger of PonyBird and NextSteps for Life. Both organizations have been partners with YouthBridge through the years.
Caritas Family Solutions is a human services nonprofit whose mission is to strengthen the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families in order to create healthy relationships, loving homes and strong communities throughout the Metro-East and Southern Illinois. Services include adoption, pregnancy care, foster … More →
For some of your clients, the thought of giving artwork to a museum or other charity might have crossed their minds. Otherwise, in the estate plan you’ll build for the art collector, the choices largely boil down either to selling the pieces, or giving them to family and loved ones during life or through a bequest.
Ranging from $175 million to a whopping $15 billion, the 10 largest gifts to charity in 2021 may have caught your clients’ attention. Not only do philanthropic gifts seem to keep getting bigger, but the future looks bright, too, with more than $84 trillion projected to be handed down in what may be one of the largest intergenerational transfers of wealth in history.
Last year’s heavily-debated versions of the Build Back Better Act called for tax increases that potentially could have impacted charitable giving.
Through a $120,000, two-year, Think Big for Kids grant from YouthBridge, Story Stitchers is creating a series of public service announcements (PSAs) to help change the stigma around mental health care and provide information on accessing it.
Bringing to Light the Darkness of Human Trafficking • YouthBridge Connections: College Bound • YouthBridge announces 2022 grant programs • Giving hard-to-value assets: It’s not just for real estate anymore • Philanthropy and the family business: Ripe for great questions • Transfer of wealth: Following the money
Every January since 2010 has been recognized as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Human trafficking, especially sex trafficking, is a very real problem in Missouri, which ranks in the top 10 states for reported cases per capita.
Making meaningful connections is a specialty of YouthBridge. “When I first shared the vision of College Bound with YouthBridge, they loved the concept. At the same time, they were honest about the grants and funders in their portfolio that they thought would and would not … More →
Our mission is to recruit, train, supervise and support volunteers who advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children from the Judicial Systems of St. Clair, Madison, Monroe and Randolph Counties, in order to reduce the physical, emotional, intellectual and social impact of child maltreatment.
You are no doubt familiar with the many benefits of giving hard-to-value assets to a charity–and especially to a client’s donor-advised fund at YouthBridge Community Foundation. Because YouthBridge is a public charity, your client is eligible for the maximum allowable tax deduction for their contributions.
The Child Advocacy Center of Northeast Missouri responds to child abuse through a supportive team approach to reduce trauma to children and their non-offending family members.
More than half of the country’s GDP is generated by the 5.5 million family-owned businesses in the United States. Profits aren’t the only priority for most family businesses; indeed, the vast majority of family business owners report that other factors, such as culture, community, charity, and values, are also important to the business.
“The greatest wealth transfer in modern history has begun,” according to a mid-2021 report in the Wall Street Journal. And, with tax reform’s big bite into estate values off the table, at least for now, many of your older clients may be thinking seriously about their legacies.
YouthBridge has developed this grant program to assist nonprofits in building, strengthening and sustaining their organizations.
Lift For Life Academy had a good problem to solve. A donor expressed the desire to establish an Endowment Fund for the school, but “the problem was, we had no idea how to set one up,” says Marshall Cohen, Lift For Life Executive Director and Co-Founder. Cohen says the Finance Committee of the Board decided to send out requests for proposals to three potential managers, including YouthBridge.