News

  • Four tips for advisors (to address COVID-19)

    There is certainly (and understandably) no shortage of news about COVID-19. We’ve compiled a few of our top tips to help streamline your information-gathering efforts as you assist your clients with charitable priorities…

  • March 2020

    COVID-19 Response • Helping charities now • Youth In Need Champions Funding for Children’s Mental Health Services
    • Living Earth Day 365 Days a Year • Annual Report 2019

  • Helping charities now

    CEO Michael Howard explains the challenges keeping up their noble work despite the COVID-19 challenges.

  • Young girl proudly displays butterfly wings at Earth Day fair.

    Living Earth Day 365 Days a Year

    That’s the impetus of earthday365 – to help people make sustainability an everyday commitment through education, engagement and empowerment

  • Youth In Need Champions Funding for Children’s Mental Health Services

    If approved, this measure would bring essential mental health services to an estimated 120,000 children and youth in the county.

  • Corporate philanthropists get relief from SALT cap on charitable donations

    Businesses frequently make cash donations to charitable organizations. But what happens to the deductibility of those donations under the state and local tax limitations imposed by the 2017 tax law?

  • Watch out for compliance pitfalls as clients favor gifts of hard-to-value assets

    If volatile market conditions persist, gifts of hard-to-value assets may become popular substitutes for appreciated stock gifts.

  • February 2020

    Stitching Stories, Empowering Youth • New Recipient of Think Big for Kids grant • H.U.G.S. & K.I.S.S.E.S. Awards​ • Big Hearts Under the Big Top • So long, stretch IRA • Charitable planning is a must prior to sale of a business • 14th Annual Family Business Speaker Series

  • TBFK grant recipient – Health Equity Works

    YouthBridge awarded a $35,000 Think Big for Kids grant to Health Equity Works in support of the Missouri Child Development Account Coalition.

  • Leadership Transition at YouthBridge

    To Everything There is a Season…

  • Artist Collective Stitching Stories, Empowering Youth

    “If our youth have the option, they will choose peace,” says Susan Colangelo, President, CEO and founder of Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artist Collective.

  • Charitable planning is a must prior to sale of a business

    Before your business-owner client starts putting out feelers to potential acquirers, be sure to counsel your client about the benefits of contributing an ownership interest to a charitable organization, especially to a flexible donor-advised fund at the community foundation.

  • So long, stretch IRA

    Among the changes enacted by the SECURE Act, which became law on December 20, 2019, is a provision eliminating the so-called stretch IRA.

  • Special opportunity for a higher charitable deduction

    Don’t miss out on the opportunity to inform your clients about a special provision in the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act.

  • January 2020

    Impact Investments • Ready Readers​ • Family Foundation or Donor Advised-Fund?​ • Think Big for Kids • Creative Solutions • Tax Savvy • Philanthropy in the News

  • Creating Ready Readers

    Each week, hundreds of volunteers experience the adventure of reading with about 10,000 preschoolers across the St. Louis region, as part of Ready Readers’ mission to prepare children entering Kindergarten in low-income communities with the skills to be ready to read.

  • Philanthropy in the News

    #GivingTuesday continues to grow in popularity. 2019 marked the eighth annual event, raising an estimated $511 million online.

  • Tax Savvy

    As you counsel your nonprofit organization clients and individual clients who are board members of charities, it is important to stay on top of changes in the tax laws that pertain to exempt organizations.

  • Family Foundation or Donor-Advised Fund; Which One is Right for You?

    The St. Louis community is often referred to as one of the most charitable in the United States, and rightfully so. We often rank in the top ten of large metropolitan areas, which is one more reason to be proud of our region.

  • Creative Solutions

    As your clients gear up for another year of giving, how can you help them make the most of their good intentions? Consider helping clients plan their charitable giving budgets around three points—amount, timing, and category.