Guide to Giving - Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation

What You Can DoThere are many ways to partner with us to strengthen your community or support a cause you care about:CREATE A FUNDSupport a cause or place you care about passionately. Create a family tradition of giving. Honor a loved one’smemory. There are many reasons you might be inspired to start a fund at Berkshire Taconic, and many optionsfor the types of fund you can create. With a donor-advised fund, you can play an active role in grantmaking.With a field of interest fund, you can direct your gift to a specific area of need or interest. With a designatedfund, you can direct annual income to a particular nonprofit. We are always available to help you find the bestway to fulfill your philanthropic vision and financial goals.LEAVE A LEGACY500+Number number of funds atBTCF for just aboutanything you’d liketo support fromanimal welfare tobasic human needsMembers of our Legacy Circle have included Berkshire Taconic in their wills or estate plans, ensuring thattheir charitable vision will endure forever. The Legacy Circle is a way for us to recognize and thank you nowfor your foresight and commitment to a better future for our communities. If you intend to leave a gift toBerkshire Taconic, please let us know so that we can include you in our Legacy Circle.MAKE A DONATIONBerkshire Taconic manages hundreds of funds that make grants to support specific places, organizations orareas of interest, including education, the arts, elderly services, health care and environmental protection. Bymaking a contribution to one of these funds, you are investing in the future of a community or cause you careabout. For a full list of funds that you can donate to, please visit our website at: www.berkshiretaconic.org.SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITYWhen you give to Berkshire Taconic's community leadership funds, you help us meet critical needs right nowwhile anticipating those of the future. The Community Fund allows us to address changing regionalchallenges, while the Endowment for the Foundation supports our operations and leadership initiatives. A giftto our Center for Nonprofit Excellence helps us provide training and other services that make local nonprofitsstronger and better able to accomplish their mission. Your support of HousingUs helps support housing forseniors and working families. And our Neighbor-to-Neighbor Fund provides one-time emergency assistanceto people who have exhausted all other financial resources.YOU CAN CONNECTto the causes you care about‘‘The small towns and villages that make up our community have many diverse needs.Berkshire Taconic helps donors support libraries, fire companies, theatres, and just about anyother type of organization that strengthens the fiber of small town living.’’LAEL LOCKE, DONOR ADVISOR, CHATHAM, NYberkshiretaconic.org 7