COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
OF JO DAVIESS COUNTY

Money, mortality, and family relationships. Each of those topics alone can be tough for anyone to address head-on, and when you combine...

The Community Foundation announced four grants to organizations from the Jo Daviess County Youth Fund. The grants awarded this year went...

Each year the Community Foundation's Youth Fund receives more requests for grants that it can fund. You can help. Take a look at the...

Women’s spending power has been in the news over the last several weeks as Taylor Swift’s and Beyonce’s tours continue to break records...

Although a donor-advised fund, which is becoming a more and more popular charitable planning tool, can be established through a national...

Whether you are an estate planning attorney, financial advisor, or accountant, you’ve probably seen an uptick in client questions about...

August is National Make-A-Will Month. This means you may be reading articles and hearing about estate planning more this month than...

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JO DAVIESS COUNTY ANNOUNCES YOUTH FUND GRANTS The Community Foundation of Jo Daviess County will make $10,000...

Instilling the idea of charitable giving in children and grandchildren at first blush may appear to be easy, but where to begin, and how...

Invitations are in the mail and on Facebook. The chefs from Life's a Feast are tracking down locally grown and produced ingredients our...

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDS $11,000 FROM FUTURE FUND The Community Foundation announced recipients of three grants from the Future Fund...

Energy incentive extends to nonprofit organizations Nonprofits and other exempt entities are often left out of discussions when new tax...

Thank You 2022!

Even as market volatility impacts our investments today, the Community Foundation of Jo Daviess County provides long-term benefits....

ENDOW ILLINOIS LEGISLATION We know... blogs about policy are less fun to read than stories about our grants or amazing donors. Just this...

The Jo Daviess County Youth Fund efforts to ensure children and youth are healthy, ready to learn, succeeding in school, and empowered to...

When donors connect with the Community Foundation, we always ask them why they are interested in creating a fund, making a gift, or...

In June, Maggie Handfelt told an audience at the Community Foundation's Philanthropy on the Rocks event about the impact a scholarship...

The Fill the Meridian Pool Campaign just got a little fuller thanks to a $100,000 grant from the State of Illinois Department of Natural...

We had a wonderful time gathering with friends of the Community Foundation to celebrate and tell stories of our early impact since...