COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
OF JO DAVIESS COUNTY

As you contemplate your legacy and adjust your estate plan over the years, it's natural to focus on your children and family as the...

Many community-minded individuals have served on the boards of directors of charitable organizations in our region. If you’ve served on a...

In our last newsletter, we shared that our team is closely tracking the IRS’s proposed regulations concerning donor-advised funds, issued...

At the community foundation, we are honored to work with generous individuals and families like so many of you who’ve established funds...

Developing a practice of regular contributions to your donor-advised fund at the community foundation not only allows you to...

Exciting things are happening to increase access to local food and to help more people in need overcome food insecurity. A few weeks ago,...

NOW ACCEPTING YOUTH FUND GRANT APPLICATIONS! The Jo Daviess County Youth Fund efforts to ensure children and youth are healthy, ready to...

Many donors and fund holders at the community foundation have updated their estate plans to leave a bequest to their donor-advised or...

Simplicity, efficiency, and effectiveness have long been cornerstones of working with the community foundation to carry out charitable...

Money, mortality, and family relationships. Each of those topics alone can be tough for anyone to address head-on, and when you combine...

The Community Foundation announced four grants to organizations from the Jo Daviess County Youth Fund. The grants awarded this year went...

Each year the Community Foundation's Youth Fund receives more requests for grants that it can fund. You can help. Take a look at the...

Women’s spending power has been in the news over the last several weeks as Taylor Swift’s and Beyonce’s tours continue to break records...

Although a donor-advised fund, which is becoming a more and more popular charitable planning tool, can be established through a national...

Whether you are an estate planning attorney, financial advisor, or accountant, you’ve probably seen an uptick in client questions about...

August is National Make-A-Will Month. This means you may be reading articles and hearing about estate planning more this month than...

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JO DAVIESS COUNTY ANNOUNCES YOUTH FUND GRANTS The Community Foundation of Jo Daviess County will make $10,000...

Instilling the idea of charitable giving in children and grandchildren at first blush may appear to be easy, but where to begin, and how...

Invitations are in the mail and on Facebook. The chefs from Life's a Feast are tracking down locally grown and produced ingredients our...

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDS $11,000 FROM FUTURE FUND The Community Foundation announced recipients of three grants from the Future Fund...