N e w s l e t t e r

Fall 2014

Last Chance for Gift Match

You have one last chance to multiply the impact of your giving by making an endowed gift to your community foundation before the

end of the year. For five years, the Kansas Health Foundation’s GROW Healthy

Kansas program has been providing you with matching gift incentives to encourage you to help build permanent charitable resources for Douglas County.

Gifts to DCCF’s Community Grants Endowment Fund and LiveWell Community Wellness Endowment Fund trigger a 50% match. Endowed gifts to donor-advised and organization funds generate a 25% match.

To date, these incentives have generated $550,000 in new, permanent charitable capital to meet the greatest needs of our communities and to promote healthy places, policies and projects in Douglas County.

Because of your past generosity in meeting these challenges, we are nearing the maximum amount of match funding Douglas County is eligible to earn.

Please help make sure Douglas County earns the maximum possible amount of matching funds by making an endowed gift to DCCF before year end.

You may make your gift by check, credit card on our secure website, stock transfer or IRA transfer before December 31. To view a list of our donor-advised and organization funds, visit www.dccfoundation.org.

THANK YOU for helping your community reach this important milestone.

LiveWell Community Wellness GrantsThese organizations recently received grants for projects that support the health of Douglas County residents:

Ballard Community Services

Communities in Schools of Mid-America

Community Mercantile Education Foundation

Douglas County District Court

Douglas County Housing, Inc.

Lawrence Parks and Recreation

Lawrence Public Schools/Food Service

Rainbow Experience Preschool

Smart Strength/Liberty Memorial Central Middle School

The Willow Domestic Violence Center

Community Health Efforts Attract National Funding and Recognition

The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, LiveWell Lawrence and other partner organizations have attracted million-dollar CDC funding

and national interest in Douglas County’s efforts to reduce chronic disease and improve community health.

The CDC awarded $1.3 million to the Health Department to support the LiveWell Lawrence coalition’s work focused on improving nutrition, increasing physical activity and reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke. The award is the largest grant received by the Health Department to address chronic diseases, which account for 7 out of 10 deaths in the U.S. each year.

The grant money will be used for projects such as promoting walking and bik-ing to school, improving the local food system and combating the growing use of electronic cigarettes, especially among youth.

In other news, Douglas County has advanced to the second round of selection for the 2015 Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Prize. The prize recognizes communities working to give everyone the opportunity for a healthy life.

Recognized communities improve across many factors that influence health—including health behaviors, clinical care, education, employment and the physical environment.

Finalists will be announced in February. Ten winning communities will receive a $25,000 cash prize and have their stories shared broadly with the goal of inspiring locally driven change across the nation.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted to public health.

The Douglas County Community Foundation and the Kansas Health Foundation funded the start-up of LiveWell Lawrence in 2008, and remain active in supporting its work.

Community Foundation Movement Celebrates 100 YearsA century ago, an American named Frederick H. Goff came up with a formal way for communities to tap into the universal human desire to help one’s neighbors.

A banker and humanitarian, Goff conceived of a permanent fund to which people could entrust the management of their charitable gifts. This concept was a source of inspiration for more than 1,800 foundations working worldwide today.

Community foundations come in all ages and sizes, but they share an essential mission: building on local heritage and strengths to improve the quality of local life and help local people pull together until many hands become one.

Learn more about the global community foundation movement at communityfoundationatlas.org.

Adapted from the Community

Foundation Atlas

Board of DirectorsWebster GoldenChair

John ElmoreHarry GibsonMike McGrewVickie RandelReggie RobinsonDan SabatiniDolph Simons, Jr.Evan WilliamsChip BlaserExecutive Directorchipblaser@dccfoundation.org

Connecting the diverse citizens and communities of Douglas County through charitable action.

900 Massachusetts, Suite 406 Lawrence, KS 66044 785-843-8727 785-843-8735 fax www.dccfoundation.org

Free State High School PrairieWith funding from the Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund, Free State High School students have established a prairie restoration and community ecology experiment on an abandoned football field on the school campus.

For Professional Advisors and their Clients• We are still waiting on Congress to pass the continuation of the IRA charitable “rollover” pro-

vision for donors who are age 70.5 and above. We are hopeful that this opportunity will be made retroactive to the beginning of this year, as Congress has done in previous years. This is an excellent tool for clients to make charitable gifts without increasing taxable income.

• Clients continue to make smart use of stock, mutual funds and other appreciated assets to do charitable giving. DCCF receives these assets to give your clients the ability to maximize their charitable good while not impacting their monthly bottom-line or facing capital gains taxes.

• Charitable bequests are flexible and efficient through DCCF. Your client simply names DCCF as the beneficiary of accounts or under a trust or will, and then can decide over time what charitable interests will be fulfilled by that gift. The donor can change charitable recipients simply by letting us know, rather than changing beneficiary or legal forms each time they add to or change intentions.

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Lawrence, KS 66044-2868

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Fall 2014

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Last Chance for Gift MatchFree State High School Prairie

Community Health Efforts Attract National Funding and Recognition