Pinellas Community Foundation Presents Options and Opportunities for Philanthropy

Friday, May 13, 2016

8:30 – 10 am

RCS, Board Room
1552 S. Myrtle
Clearwater, FL 33756

For reservations, please call 727-531-0058 or
email reservations@pinellasccf.org

Learn your options for fulfilling your philanthropic goals in an interactive seminar with a complimentary breakfast. You are sure to enjoy this engaging session while discovering the tax-advantaged options you have for your charity gifts.

Regardless if you are looking to establish a permanent legacy, set up a scholarship at your alma mater or contribute to the needs of the community, you’ll learn about giving options that provide advantages today and in the future.

Pinellas Community Foundation, dedicated to Pinellas County, has been linking generous donors with exemplary nonprofits like RCS since 1969.

Happy Community Foundation Week!

Grants to fund a new pool lift for the handicapped, furniture for a teen shelter, new instruments for a junior orchestra demonstrate the tremendous impact and unique importance of community foundations in this country. This week, we celebrate Community Foundation Week, our chance to share and reflect on these stories. Though you may not yet know your local community foundation, you’ve likely felt its impact. The Pinellas Community Foundation and more than 750 other community foundations across the country help to bring donors and residents together. The community foundation unites their efforts behind the efforts that will help the communities we call home continue to flourish and grow.

As we enter the giving season, America’s generosity surges. Millions of people from every background will be looking to give back to the communities that have supported them. They’ll also look to make sure that their heartfelt giving – however they choose to give – will have the most impact. That’s why so many of them will choose to give to a community foundation.

A planned gift to your local community foundation is really an investment in the future of your community. The funds will go to work immediately supporting vital services, but they will also provide sustained support for years to come. At the Pinellas Community Foundation we don’t think about the next election or business cycle, we think about the next generation and the next after that.

That can seem a daunting task, but it’s one that we all share. During Community Foundation Week, I hope you’ll join us in recognizing our collective impact and the difference we can make together. Learn more at the Pinellas Community Foundation website.

The Pinellas Community Foundation Membership Program has made helping charities easy.

The Pinellas Community Foundation Membership Program is a community-wide support organization for Pinellas County charities. Membership revenues go directly to our grants program and are not used for our operations or overhead. Here’s why our membership program is so beneficial to the Pinellas County community:

Direct Donations to Charities – We maximize your donation because your annual membership donation goes directly to charities.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors – Only Pinellas County charities benefit from our membership program – so your gift stays in Pinellas County.

Very Low Administrative Costs – The Pinellas County Community Foundation’s administrative expenses are far lower than those of most community foundations and charities.

Local Community Decisions – A group of Pinellas County professionals, who are on the board of the Pinellas Community Foundation, decides how your membership dues are distributed. The Summer and Fall Competitive Grants Committees reviews all requests and make grants.

Public Foundation – The Foundation qualifies for the “public support” requirement by the IRS, with the help of the membership’s donations.

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Tax Deductible – The Pinellas County Community Foundation is a recognized charity under Section 501(c)(3) of IRS regulations.

To join, click here to print our annual membership form and mail it to: The Pinellas Community Foundation, 5200 East Bay Dr., Suite 202, Clearwater, FL 33764.

Help the Best Non-profit Organization in Pinellas County Help Others

Please join us in helping to build a better future for Pinellas County. The Pinellas Community Foundation is committed to making the Pinellas County community a better place to live. The Foundation is funded by the generous donations of local area citizens, as well as various philanthropic organizations and businesses. Through the generosity and dedication of our advisors, community leaders, board and staff, we help the community in the following areas:

• Provide donors with how-you-can-help detailed information about different communities’ needs and priorities.

• Offer consulting services for non-profit donations that match your donations with effective and rewarding charities. If you desire to be involved and want to be hands-on with the charity of your choice, we can help with that too.

• Support non-profit organizations so they may continue to provide effective and productive programs that benefit Pinellas County communities.

• Manage programs that deliver grants, scholarships, and support educational endeavors in the community.

Financial Advisers: 6 Ways the Pinellas Community Foundation Can Help You Help Your Clients

If you go to the Pinellas Community Foundation web site at www.pinellasccf.org, you will find many tools and resources to help you ensure that your clients receive the full benefits of their contributions while supporting the charities of their choice. To watch the video click the image below.

The 6 main benefits of working with the Pinellas Community Foundation:

1. The Foundation has over 40 years of experience serving individuals, families, nonprofits, businesses and private foundations.
2. Your clients can use the Foundation to support multiple charities – locally or nationally.
3. You have the opportunity to help create an enduring legacy for your clients through funds that fulfill their charitable wishes.
4. We offer a full range of philanthropic services to meet your clients’ specific needs, such as choosing the right giving strategy or identifying the best organizations to support.
5. We provide expertise on community issues, as well as organizations that help and support them.
6. Your clients will receive the maximum tax advantages allowed by law.

If your client supplies the passion and ideas, we can provide the expertise and infrastructure.

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Important Differences Between Private Foundations and Family Foundations

The Pinellas Community Foundation is a time and cost saving alternative to a private or family foundation. The Foundation assumes all of the administrative and reporting requirements and helps the donor to avoid or decrease all the extensive legal costs and paper work. This type of fund can be created in a day versus several months.

A fund with the Foundation offers many advantages, along with greater charitable tax benefits. For example, gifts of cash or ordinary property to the Foundation are deductible up to 50% of adjusted gross income (AGI). Gifts to private or family foundations are deductible only to 30% of AGI. Similarly, gifts of appreciated property to community foundations can be credited for 30% compared to 20% for a private foundation. There are no excise taxes on community foundations as there are on private foundations and community foundations do not have a requirement that a certain percentage must be distributed each year.

To learn more, contact the Pinellas Community Foundation at (727) 734-2609.

How to Create a Charitable Fund in Pinellas County

Define your charitable objectives with the help of our Foundation staff. This preliminary meeting can include discussion with your professional advisor about the many tax benefits of charitable gifts.

Click below for a short video on how easy it is to create a charitable fund.

Name your fund. Many people choose to honor their family name. Or, they may honor a family member or friend. (Example: John Doe Family Fund OR Jane Doe Memorial Fund.)

Seed your fund with cash, real estate, securities or other appropriate options.
Once the assets are transferred, your vision becomes a reality.

For more information on how to start your give-back-to-the-community fund, click here or call the Pinellas Community Foundation at 727-531-0058

 

Welcome New Pinellas Community Foundation members: Jeannine Williams, Esq. and Dr. Ken Peluso!

Jeannine Williams is an attorney with the City of St. Petersburg. She is board certified in City, County and Local Government Law. Jeannine is a past president of the St. Petersburg Bar Association and is involved with many other professional and civic organizations.

 

Dr. Ken Peluso was elected to the School Board in 2014. He has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Merrimack College in Massachusetts and a Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine from Sherman College in South Carolina. In 2013, Dr. Peluso retired as president/owner of Peluso Chiropractic Center in Palm Harbor after 28 years in practice.

Dr. Peluso has served as chairman of the Early Learning Coalition of Pinellas County and served on the Florida Early Learning Advisory Council.

Is this the Best Non-profit Charity Foundation in Pinellas County?

Maybe, the reasons why are talked about in this video: 

The Pinellas Community Foundation is committed to making the Pinellas County community a better place to live. The Foundation is funded by the generous donations of local area citizens, as well as various philanthropic organizations and businesses. Through the generosity and dedication of our advisors, community leaders, board and staff, we help the community in the following areas:

• Provide donors with how-you-can-help detailed information about different communities’ needs and priorities.

• Offer consulting services for non-profit donations that match your donations with effective and rewarding charities. If you desire to be involved and want to be hands-on with the charity of your choice, we can help with that too.

• Support non-profit organizations so they may continue to provide effective and productive programs that benefit Pinellas County communities.

• Manage programs that deliver grants, scholarships, and support educational endeavors in the community.

For more information on how to start your give-back-to-the-community fund, call the Pinellas Community Foundation at 727-531-0058.

 

The Magic of Giving to Charities

“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”  – Ruth Stapleton

4 benefits of starting a fund with the Pinellas Community Foundation:

1. We handle all of the administrative details.
2. You receive tax benefits in the year your gift is made.
3. You have options: You can be involved in the good works your gift makes possible, recommend an area or organization you’d like your gift to support, or rely on the community foundation to determine and address the areas of greatest need in our community.
4. Funded forever: You may elect to endow your fund so that it is invested over time so the earnings from your fund are used to make grants to your favorite charities. Your gift, and all future earnings from your gift, is a permanent source of community capital – most important, your fund helps others forever.

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”       –  Bob Hope

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