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Check out the latest DAF Digest—a newsletter for advisors, delivering the latest in charitable giving strategies. In this issue: 💡 Help your clients support Hurricane Helene recovery 📊 Prepare for potential TCJA changes 📅 Year-end giving deadlines 📖 Resources to support philanthropic strategy conversations Read this month’s issue: https://bit.ly/3TVN9kl #ForAdvisors #Advisors #Philanthropy

On this episode of Mission Control, we talk with Joe Garcia, executive director of Catholic Charities of Ingham, Eaton & Clinton Counties, which was formerly known as Cristo Rey Community Center and St Vincent Catholic Charities. We discuss the management of both nonprofits, collaboration with other nonprofit partners, and entering the nonprofit world from a fresh perspective. https://lnkd.in/gVB39iNV

What are you waiting for if you still need to listen to my Mission Control Podcast? In this episode, I talk with Joe Garcia about his journey from being a first-time executive director to combining two well-known non-profits to serve the same mission. Subscribe now! New episodes every other week!

With FFTC's Planned Giving opportunities, your aspirations for a brighter future transform into tangible actions that resonate for generations. Whether you're addressing immediate community needs or nurturing your favorite causes, our expert guidance, personalized service and robust local resources ensure that your charitable legacy is not just a hope, but a certainty. Learn more about how we help individuals and families create a lasting legacy: fftc.org/create_a_legacy

In a historic level of collaboration, community violence intervention (CVI) groups, philanthropic organizations, business leaders, and government entities recently unveiled an initiative to expand CVI programs over the next decade to significantly reduce gun violence in Chicago. The goal of the initiative, called Scaling Community Violence Intervention for a Safer Chicago, or "SC2," is to reduce shootings and homicides by half within five years and by 75 percent in a decade. Listen as Esther Franco-Payne, Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe and Peaceful Communities (PSPC), discusses the strategies behind SC2. Learn more on our website! 🔗 https://bit.ly/49MK6jT

Trying to get your clients to complete their plans for the year? Let the team at the Community Foundation help! Learn more about leveraging philanthropic intent to get your clients to complete their plans: https://bit.ly/3OIQsZq

What are the essential steps in developing a successful nonprofit program? Developing a successful program involves needs assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation. At Sarah Boxx, we guide nonprofits through each step to ensure impactful and sustainable programs. Learn more about our program development services at https://bit.ly/3uetq2Y.

We were pleased to support the 2024 Northwest Nonprofit Capacity Report. What were the top three capacity needs identified by our nonprofits? 1. Resources: This is always the top priority - the ongoing funding of incredible work. 2. People: Succession planning, meaningful staff development, effective volunteer engagement, dusting off HR policies that haven't been touched in 7 years... 3. Evaluation: How do you measure impact without overwhelming frontline staff? How are staff and participants involved in the sensemaking of data? Northwest Nonprofit Capacity Survey - M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust (murdocktrust.org)

Our 2024 Family Business Survey results are in! From profitability being the leading answer for how family businesses define success to making charitable donations being a top response for philanthropic support initiatives, our survey reveals the similarities and differences of family owned businesses across generations. See the results here: https://brev.is/REtht. #CenterForFamilyOwnedBusinesses

Individuals and their families often seek to make positive societal and world change through philanthropic efforts. Philanthropy is one way families clarify their values and use their wealth to work together across generations to build their family's legacy for the greater good. Learn more at https://hubs.ly/Q02zy8tB0