Your Partner in Giving
Your charitable giving goals are as unique as you are. Our team can walk alongside you to ensure your goals are being met in the ways that mean the most as you.
The Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines serves as your local community navigator, offering tailored tools to help you focus and optimize giving to the causes you care about. Through unique services that are personalized, we maximize your charitable investments, share the joy of giving and create the best plan for a legacy of impact.
"When we started our fund, we wanted to give money to support early childhood literacy in the Des Moines area. The Community Foundation has been helpful in connecting us to projects, as they are very aware of our interests. They make us feel like what we’re doing is important.”
- Lane-Hathaway Family
Individuals and Families
Your charitable giving journey is as distinctive as your story. Through a series of tools and exercises, we walk through the values that mean the most to you and align them with giving opportunities that match your interests. Explore how your experiences and values have shaped your giving philosophies and inform an intentional plan for charitable giving.
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- Reflect on your giving history
- Engage in meaningful discussions on values and priorities
- Align your values with your giving goals
Beyond our team, you can do self-guided exploration through our Giving Guide, where you can complete exercises to help determine what types of charitable giving is most important to you. Additionally, you can use GIVEdsm to search for the pressing needs and promising opportunities of our community.
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Generations
One of the greatest gifts you can give is passing on the joy of giving. Engage with family members across generations in a series of discussions to learn more about your values, current giving and legacy planning. Following your direction and desires, we will facilitate meaningful dialogue to help guide your family’s charitable giving intentions.
| How It Works |
- Engage multiple generations in your charitable giving
- Discuss individual values and priorities
- Develop and implement a customized charitable giving strategy
- Cultivate a tradition of giving across generations
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Businesses
Investing in the community is good business. We partner with you to align your company’s values with meaningful charitable impact. Through our business giving services, we offer solutions to manage charitable giving, engage employees in the process and maintain focus on your business and community outreach goals.
| How It Works |
- Connect your business values to your charitable impact
- Bring efficiency and simplicity to charitable giving
- Establish a structure for giving to organizations that reflect your business priorities
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| Benefits of a Business Charitable Giving Fund |
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DISTINCT
Your business’ charitable giving fund can include the name of your company or remain anonymous.
ENDURING
Grants from your fund can be made now and into the future to continue your collective spirit of giving.
FLEXIBLE
Contributions can be made to the fund at any time. The Community Foundation can facilitate a variety of gift types.
TAILORED
Maximize and streamline your impact with tailored tools that meet your business' unique needs.
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| Customized Solutions |
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Our team of charitable giving experts will work with you to develop a tailored plan and provide the right level of support to maximize your company’s impact, and can include:
- Maintenance of a database of grant requests and distributions
- Management of inquiries from grantseekers
- Creation of customized grant applications
- Development of your charitable giving strategy
- Preparation of grant recommendations for your company’s consideration
- Management grant impact reporting
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