As corporate valuations soar, you may be getting more frequent questions from executives at publicly-traded companies about the tax benefits of transactions involving highly-appreciated stock. Proper planning is critical to optimize the tax aspects of a transaction, but no advisor should go it alone.
As you’re developing estate plans for your charitable clients, remember that YouthBridge Community Foundation is happy to help structure a hybrid gift in which a personal component is paired with a charitable component.
In an era of social media and intense polarization of rhetoric, it’s no wonder so many charitable individuals and families choose to give to their favorite causes anonymously. And, bolstered by the Supreme Court’s decision last month in favor of donor privacy this trend is likely to continue.
Nurses for Newborns Setting the Standard for Nurse Home Visiting • IHELP Creating Immigrant Connections • Case study: How to spot a prime CRT opportunity • Planned giving starts now: Talking points for lifetime charitable gifts • Recent updates and rulings
“You’d be amazed at how well our volunteers can communicate with their students without yet speaking the same language,” says Julie Fox, Executive Director of Immigrant Home English Learning Program (IHELP), formerly the Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Program. “It’s about connecting on a primal level … More →
Time and again, the newborn nursery nurse at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in South St. Louis County (now Mercy South) would see newborns that had just been released from the hospital return to the emergency room with preventable injuries and illnesses.
Our team at YouthBridge Community Foundation stays on top of tax cases, IRS rulings, and legislation that could impact the advice and counsel you provide your clients on matters involving charitable giving. Here are a few current highlights and reminders we recommend you skim. Electronic … More →
According to 2020 statistics released in June 2021 as part of the Giving USA report, Americans’ bequests to charity totaled nearly $42 billion last year.
Imagine that a client sits down at your conference room table and begins the meeting something like this: “I’ve got a prime tract of land I bought for $200,000 just 10 years ago, and now I am sure I could sell it for $2 million because the market is so hot…
Generate Health a Champion of Family and Community • Blues Alumni Assistance Fund Grants Announced • New Board Members • Now accepting applications for two grant opportunities! • Professional Advisor’s Corner
Generate Health is leading the charge to improve outcomes in infant mortality and maternal health for black and brown families through a Home Visiting Collaborative.
The Wayne C. Kaufmann Charitable Foundation seeks to improve the care and welfare of people in the community so that human beings can live up to their God-given potential.
Giant Steps of Saint Louis is a non-profit 501(c)(3) therapeutic day school dedicated to serving children with autism spectrum disorders. Our mission is to empower these exceptional students by fostering academic, social, and vocational skills to maximize each student’s individual potential. Giant Steps provides a … More →
In partnership with The St. Louis Blues Alumni, YouthBridge is pleased to announce the first round of grantees for the Blues Alumni Assistance Fund, which provides relief for small businesses throughout the St. Louis community affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
YouthBridge Community Foundation has announced the appointment of financial advisors Jennifer Belmont Jennings and Byron Caskey to its Board of Directors.
Unleashing Every Child’s Potential • AAFA-STL Celebrates 40-Year Tradition of Innovation • We’re thinking BIG for kids! • YouthBridge welcomes two new Board Members • Now accepting applications for two grant opportunities! • Professional Advisor’s Corner
Forty years ago this year, two allergists working in St. Louis area hospitals were overwhelmed by the number of children coming into the ER with asthma attacks because they lacked access to simple treatments, such as inhalers.
Merely weeks into her new role as Vice President of Philanthropy at Unleashing Potential (UP), Verletta Cole faced a mountain of uncertainty in the form of a global pandemic. She was grateful, she says, to have the support of YouthBridge and its Nonprofit Recovery and Resilience grant program.
Designated funds and field-of-interest funds may not always be top of mind when you are developing philanthropy plans for your clients and their families, but they are extremely valuable tools in certain circumstances.
When tax season rolls around each spring, a new crop of questions may arise concerning clients’ gifts to various organizations and whether those donations qualify as tax-deductible charitable contributions.