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The Norfolk Area Community Foundation Fund is committed to giving back to the Norfolk community. The generosity of awesome donors (like you!) gets pooled together to create a powerful gift of grants for our community. Your donation to our Unrestricted Endowment will help support the whole community through grant opportunities for the emerging needs in the Norfolk area. Thanks to your generous contribution, you will continue to help enhance Norfolk both now and for years to come.

Through grants and partnerships, we have provided financial support to various community projects and programs. Here are a few examples:

  • Embrace Park, an all-inclusive playground and splash pad
  • Mayor’s Diversity Council
  • Norfolk Youth Theatre
  • Norfolk Public Schools, Career Exploration
  • Project Homeless Connect
  • Animal Shelter of Northeast Nebraska
  • Norfolk Sculpture Walk
  • Norfolk Arts Center

If you love the community you call home, this is your opportunity to enrich its future. When you leave 5% of your wealth to your county, you help ensure your family’s legacy and your community’s future.

If you gave a small part of your wealth back, there would be more money to invest in the economic development of your family’s future town. We can teach, encourage, and inspire future generations to give back and it starts with you — it starts with 5%.

Invest in a community that has invested in you by leaving 5 to thrive today.

Endowment

Ways to Give

CASH
A gift of cash may be eligible for income tax deductions as prescribed by current law. Your cash gift may be by check, credit card or electronic funds transfer, which authorizes the automatic transfer of funds each month from your checking or savings account. Pledging a gift over several years may allow you to increase its size and effect, while adjusting the timing and amount of each payment to optimize your tax position.

MARKETABLE SECURITIES
 A gift of publicly-traded stock, bonds or mutual fund shares is eligible to be matched and may provide you with additional tax benefits, as you will not pay capital gains tax on the appreciation in the value of the securities.

GIFTS OF IRA
Individuals who have reached age 70½ may contribute up to $100,000 directly from their Individual Retirement Account (IRA), without having to recognize the IRA distribution as taxable income. If married, each spouse can transfer up to $100,000 from his or her IRA each year.

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
Gifts of grain or livestock may provide significant income tax savings to a producer.