Why Give Through Us
For 100 years, generous donors throughout Greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills have partnered with Connecticut Community Foundation to help make their vision for the community a reality. With us, you can expect local knowledge, personal service from our professional donor services and grantmaking staff, and expert investment management for your fund. Whether you care most about health care, education, the arts, economic opportunity, human services, the environment, scholarships, or the work of a specific organization, we offer you creative and flexible giving options. Whether you honor Connecticut Community Foundation with your gift today or a bequest in the future, you can trust that it will be used as you have directed and you will make a positive impact in the community you love—now and forever.
You don’t have to be a person of great means to make a great impact. Philanthropy is for everyone. Giving through Connecticut Community Foundation is a simple, powerful, and flexible way to fuel your passion.
Turn Your Generosity into Impact
If charitable giving is an important theme in your life story, we can help.
Whether you create your own charitable fund or give directly to an existing fund or issue area, with Connecticut Community Foundation, you can expect:
Local knowledge
We are true partners with local leaders and businesses, community groups, nonprofit organizations, financial advisors and schools, and we treasure these authentic and trusting collaborations.
Personal service
We help you develop a personal, customized giving plan that fulfills your vision and will have the greatest possible impact on the communities you love.
Experience
Our professional donor services and grantmaking staff are available to share their knowledge of local community issues with you, answer your questions and handle all the administrative details of your philanthropy.
Stability
We help build funds that support local communities over decades, meeting needs as they change over time.
Grantmaking assistance
Based on careful research and broad knowledge of community issues, we award hundreds of grants every year to local organizations and scholarship recipients. You can be as hands-on as you wish with your gifts or you can trust us to direct your money to effective organizations and programs.
Creative and flexible giving options
You can choose from a full menu of charitable giving options that help you accomplish your charitable goals and maximize tax advantages.
Expert investment management
We manage your fund, invest it for growth and always honor your philanthropic wishes.
Lasting impact
Funds that you endow at Connecticut Community Foundation will be granted to the community as you have directed— now and forever.
We can work with you
For nearly a century, we have partnered with hundreds of individuals, nonprofit organizations, and private foundations to channel charitable dollars to their most effective uses throughout our region. Whether you want to create a charitable fund to meet community needs, provide a steady income stream or ready assets for particular organization or find help to more effectively and efficiently carry out your family’s philanthropy, we are ready to work with you.
- Create a personal plan for your charitable giving, now and through your estate plan.
- Establish a fund or contribute to an existing fund that matches your charitable goals.
- Depend on our knowledge of the community and the organizations and programs that serve it.
- Trust in our long history of responsible investment, financial stewardship and grantmaking.
- Invest your cash reserves in a nonprofit agency-advised fund and access the assets when you need them.
- Establish and build a permanent endowment.
- Raise funds for a major project.
- Encourage your donors to establish designated funds that will benefit your organization forever.
- Help with administration, investment, financial oversight, governance or grantmaking.
- Donate part of your foundation’s annual distributions to a fund at Connecticut Community Foundation,
- Convert your foundation to a donor-advised fund at Connecticut Community Foundation, reducing your expenses and administrative burdens and increasing the tax benefits of gifts to your fund.
