About Community Foundations

The Jasper Foundation and its affiliate the Newton County Community Foundation are two of 94 community foundations serving the state of Indiana. All community foundations seek to provide:

1.    Services to donors by offering various fund options and ways of giving, and by making possible the use of gifts as memorials or tributes to specific individuals. Gifts may also be distributed to benefit selected areas of interest or specific organizations. All funds receive cost-effective, professional management.

2.    Services to non-profit organizations include grants from the earnings of the Community Foundation unrestricted fund to address special needs. Additionally, the Foundation can provide income for agency programs.

3.    Services to the community by ultimately initiating projects and approving grant requests from community organizations to improve the quality of community life.

More specifically, the Foundations can do many things for its constituency:

1.    We represent donors and provide flexible and cost-effective services to them

2.    We provide ways for donors to both pool their funds and accomplish their philanthropic wishes

1.    We act as a savings account for communities though building, over time, substantial endowed funds from contributions - large and small. Because contributions may be endowed they become permanently invested to produce income. The income earned is then used to help meet communities' charitable needs though grants in the areas of:
Education
Arts & Culture
Health
Social Concerns
Historic Preservation

 

 

 

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Last revised 12/17/2006