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This page includes resources for non-profits that relate specifically to services of the Community Foundation. We work with agencies whose service areas include Bloomington and Monroe County.
Please see our Grants page and Matchstick page for additional resources from the Community Foundation. The Middle Schoolers Initiative page also contains downloadable documents that may be useful if you are working with this age group - or would like to. Links to some helpful resources from other organizations can be found at the bottom of this page.
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Growing Your Endowment
The Community Foundation has held several workshops for agency partners on how to start and build a permanent source of support for your mission. Please contact us if you have any questions about how we may assist you.
An Endowment 101 workshop was held during August 2007. Click here for an article summarizing the workshop, or click the torch icon below to download the summary and workshop handouts in pdf. | |
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June Miller's first workshop was so well received that we sponsored an Endowment 201 workshop for agency staff and volunteers in Feb. 2009. It included a brief recap of endowment basics before moving into more depth about prospect identification, motivating volunteers as well as donors to engage in this process, and the case for support. Please click the torch icon below for a summary. | |
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You may also find it useful to view our Planned Giving Seminar, which you can watch online by clicking here. Planned gifts present a wonderful opportunity for building your endowment fund. This video can help your staff and volunteers understand the potential of planned gifts. It is also a tool you can use with donors to help them see the possibilities for meeting their personal and financial goals as well as their charitable goals.
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General Info on Agency Endowments
For information about how an endowment could benefit your agency, how to know if you are a good candidate, and why it makes sense to partner with the Community Foundation please click here.
Already have a fund with the Community Foundation? Please click the torch icon below for answers to common questions about how the Community Foundation manages agency funds, and how we can work together to benefit our community. | |
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Marketing Your Fund
You never know when a friend of your agency may be updating their estate plan and considering their charitable legacy. One of the keys to successful endowment-building is continuously educating your supporters about how your endowment helps your mission and how they can make legacy gifts to ensure your future.
Items to help:
* Please ask us if you would like more "Endowed in the Community Foundation" window cards to display in your facilitie(s)
* A jpeg of the "Endowment in the Community Foundation" graphic is also available upon request; this may be used on your web site, newsletter template, or annual report to reminder supporters of your foresight in establishing a permanent fund
* Please click the torch icon below to download a template flier on planned giving opportunities, which you may personalize and share with your donors | |
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Other Resources
You may also find it useful to:
* sign up for the Non-Profit Alliance weekly e-newsletter, if you don't already get it -- it contains grant opportunities, new resources, and other useful information -- you can send an email to npa@bloomington.in.us to be added to the newsletter list; click here to read more about the NPA, including networking and training opportunities (which are also listed in the e-newsletter)
* visit United Way's Non-Profit Resource Center
* check out the 2-1-1 online database
* view the 2003 SCAN (the most recent comprehensive needs assessment for Monroe County)
* look up Community Organizations in a database compiled by the Monroe County Public Library
* check community calendars (click here for a listing from the Monroe County Non-Profit Alliance)
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