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Bookmark these links and articles for quick reference.
Association of Fundraising Professionals Minnesota Chapter (AFP MN)
A regional membership association of fundraisers that provides information relevant to nonprofit fundraising in Minnesota.
Hands On Twin Cities
Hands On Twin Cities helps match volunteers with nonprofit organizations.
Leave a Legacy Minnesota
Learn how to help your donors leave a charitable bequest, or to do so yourself.
Minnesota Attorney General
The Attorney General is the chief legal officer for the State of Minnesota. The Office represents and provides legal advice to over 100 state agencies, boards and commissions. The Office represents the state in state and federal court, as well as in administrative adjudication and rulemaking hearings.
Minnesota Charities Review Council
The Council seeks to promote informed giving by Minnesota donors, and has developed standards to encourage accountability in the charitable sector.
Minnesota Council on Foundations
Information for Minnesota grantmakers.
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
This site offers a wealth of information on Minnesota's nonprofit sector, including a searchable database of nonprofit organizations and a Nonprofit Library with documents on many nonprofit management issues.
Minnesota Planned Giving Council
A regional membership association of Minnesota planned giving professionals that provides information relevant to the field.
Minnesota Toolkit for Giving
The Council's companion Web site offers a comprehensive source of basic information on all the major charitable giving options available to individuals, businesses and communities. The site includes useful resources and links, inspiring donor stories, information on e-giving and youth philanthropy and much more.
The One Percent Club
An association of people of means committed to giving 1% or more of net worth or 5% of income, whichever is greater, annually to the charities of their choice.
Wilder Research Center
The Wilder Research Center, part of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation in St. Paul, has one of the largest nonprofit applied research and evaluation teams in the United States dedicated solely to the human service field. At the Center's site you can view and/or purchase many of its reports and publications.
American Institute of Philanthropy
Charity watchdog service whose purpose is to help donors make informed giving decisions.
Council on Foundations
For over 50 years, the Council on Foundations has helped foundation staff, trustees and board members in their day-to-day grantmaking activities. Through one-to-one technical assistance, research, publications, conferences and workshops, legal services, and a wide array of other services, the Council addresses the important issues and challenges that face foundations and corporate funders.
Chronicle of Philanthropy
Provides information about grant seeking, foundations, fundraising, managing nonprofit groups, technology, and nonprofit jobs.
GuideStar
The GuideStar Web site is produced by Philanthropic Research, Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity founded in 1994. GuideStar's mission is to revolutionize philanthropy and nonprofit practice with information.
Internal Revenue Service
Current tax forms and filing information directly from the Internal Revenue Service.
National Center for Charitable Statistics
A national clearinghouse of data that provides quick and easy reference to information about the nonprofit sector and charitable giving patterns.
New Tithing Group
Provides comprehensive budgeting approaches for charitable giving that include factors related to asset fluctuation and anticipated expenditures.
The following articles were republished in or written for Talking about Philanthropy, our e-newsletter for professional advisors.
The Business of Giving
"A Golden Age of Philanthropy"
On Wall Street, June 2007
The article explores the vested interests of financial institutions to preserve affluent clients' assets for the next generation by providing education to children about "responsible stewardship," the act of becoming stewards of inherited wealth by growing and preserving assets and responsible philanthropy instead of diminishing wealth through extravagant purchases.
"The Business of Giving"
The Economist, February 2006
An overview of current trends transforming the field of philanthropy into a more sophisticated means of doing good in the world, examining such topics as philanthrocapitalism, social entrepreneurs, and the work of Bill Gates and other luminaries.
Family Philanthropy
"The Donor Advisor - The Critical Role of the Advisor
in Family Philanthropy "
National Center for Family Philanthropy (PDF format)
This essay describes the growth of philanthropy and offers views from donors on how they think advisors can best support them in pursuing their charitable interests.
"Engage Adult Children in Philanthropy"
February 2006
Professional advisors can build deeper and longer-lasting relationships with their clients and among their clients' family members by engaging adult children in philanthropy.
"Family Philanthropy Made Easy: Philanthropy and the Professional Advisor "
Stuart Bear, talking about philanthropy, 2003
Advisors who encourage philanthropic giving can help clients become more involved in their communities and pass their values on to children and grandchildren.
"Passing on More than Your Values"
Allianz Study, February 2006
An Allianz survey reveals how American families are passing on their final wishes in trillion-dollar wrapping paper.
Philanthropic Vehicles
"Private Foundations Reconsidered"
Tax Facts, June 2009
Donor advised funds at community foundations offer attractive alternatives for charitable families considering private foundations.
" Melt Down: On Private Foundation Terminations"
Bloomberg Wealth Manager , October 2004
Examines conditions that have caused a growing number of private foundations to terminate and suggests alternative decisions clients should consider before creating private foundations.
"Charitable Remainder Trusts: Tools You Can Use"
Gary D. McDowell and Mary Alice Fleming, December 2003Describes valuable considerations for using charitable remainder trusts to solve estate planning challenges.
"Need a Simple Solution for Foundation Fatigue? Try a Donor Advised Fund"
Hazen Graves, October 2003
A Donor Advised Fund offers great solutions for clients who seek more favorable tax advantages, access to skilled professional staff, and relief from burdensome administrative duties related to private foundations.
"Planning with Charitable Lead Trusts Part 1"
"Planning with Charitable Lead Trusts Part 2"
John Bedosky, 2003
This series of two articles describes how awareness of the attendant advantages and pitfalls of the various forms of charitable lead trusts can allow advisors to optimize clients' gift plans.
Estate Planning
"Charitable Remainder Trusts and Unrelated Business Taxable Income"
Bruce Paulson, Spring 2007
The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 makes treatment of unrelated business taxable income much less onerous thanks to several provisions that might've passed beneath your radar.
"An Integrated Look at Charitable Remainder and Charitable Lead Trusts"
Bruce Paulson, 2004
Describes charitable remainder and charitable lead trusts and discusses the best ways to integrate these philanthropic tools with clients investment and charitable goals.
"Crafting an Enduring Legacy"
Long-term wealth transfer planning, 2004
Charitable planning provides valuable opportunities for advisors to help clients overcome the relationship challenges particular to wealthy families.
"Estate Planning on Purpose"
John Fulton, 2003
Donor advised funds at a community foundation offer advisors and families access to unique resources that can help parents transfer values to their children, in addition to assets.
"Leaving Qualified Plan Assets to Charity"
Marlo Weber Turcotte, June 2003
Introduces advisors to the variety of options for their clients to efficiently gift all or a portion of IRAs and other qualified plan assets to charity.
Philanthropy and Giving
"Write a Check? The New Philanthropist Goes Further"
NY Times, March 2007
Many wealthy Americans are creating a strategic plan for charitable gifts to be carried out in their lifetime and not as bequests. They are choosing the problem they want to help solve, researching how best to solve it, and involving themselves and their families deeply in the effort.
Minnesota 2007 Grantmaking Outlook Report
Minnesota Council on Foundations
This report assesses the 2007 grantmaking outlook based on a December 2006 survey of 91 member foundations and corporate giving programs (41 private foundations, 27 corporate foundations and giving programs, and 23 community/public foundations).
"Nation's Richest Focus on Building Wealth and Giving It Away"
Dow Jones, 2007
Leading advisors are rethinking their recommendations for wealthy clients to maximize and preserve wealth, and working with established philanthropies is a major focus.
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