Donors
We offer personalized donor services to help you achieve your charitable giving goals. Our staff will take time to learn about your charitable interests and discuss options for how you can make a meaningful impact in the community, supporting the causes you hold close to your heart.
For CFFC fund advisors: Fund Advisor Portal
Create A Fund:
We help donors create charitable funds based on donor interest, charitable purpose, and amount of contribution. A donor can create a permanent or non-permanent fund and select from the options of fund types.
As we learn about your charitable interests and how you envision making a meaningful impact in the community, we will match you with nonprofits, programs, and a personalized giving plan to help you reach your charitable giving goals.
Types of Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Your gift will address ever-changing needs – including future needs that often cannot be anticipated at the time your gift is made. We evaluate all aspects of community well-being: arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health and human services, community revitalization and more. The flexibility of your unrestricted gift enables CFFC to respond to the community’s most pressing needs, today and tomorrow.
Donor advised funds
You have ongoing involvement in how your gift is used to support charitable causes. You recommend grants to qualified nonprofits. Your recommendations are submitted to our board for approval, then we distribute grant dollars. Donor advised funds are great for individuals, families and businesses.
Field of interest funds
You can target your gift to address needs in an important area of community life that’s most important to you: arts, the environment, youth or aging, etc. You identify your interest area when making your gift; our board awards grants to nonprofits that are making a difference in the area you select.
Donor Designated funds
You can direct your gift to a specific nonprofit organization. The fund provides a steady and reliable source of annual support.
Scholarship Funds
Take the Pledge
The PA Giving Pledge is a statewide campaign to inspire Pennsylvanians to leave at least 5% of their estates to help future generations. Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Community Foundation Association (PACFA), the PA Giving Pledge aims to tap into 5% of the estimated $418 billion transfer of wealth projected in PA by 2030, according to estimates by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. Pledge to support Fayette County nonprofits and causes for years to come with an estate gift to the Community Foundation of Fayette County.
Let’s Talk!
Contact: Jessica Hajek-Bates
Chief Executive Officer
724-437-8600 x 112
Ways to Donate
If you have questions about your donation method, please call us at 724-437-8600. Our gift acceptance policy is available upon request.
Check
Make checks payable to “Community Foundation of Fayette County” or “CFFC” and indicate the purpose or Fund Name on the memo line. Mail to:
CFFC
250 West Main Street
Uniontown, PA 15401
Online
Donate by credit card through CFFC’s online donation portal. Click “Donate Now” on the top of our website and select the fund that you would like to support. Donors will receive an email with a tax receipt attachment.
Legacy Gift
A planned gift will support the community after your lifetime as part of your financial and estate planning. A few options are bequest, beneficiary designation, charitable gift annuity, charitable remainder trust, and charitable lead trust.
Join the PA Giving Pledge to leave at least 5% of your estate to help future generations in Fayette County.
Charitable IRA
Transfer IRA assets to charity tax-free.
How to Give IRA Rollover
Stock Transfer
Everybody wins when you make a gift of appreciated stock to CFFC. Your gains are put to good use, your gift of stock is reinvested in your community, and it may qualify for an immediate tax deduction based on the full fair market value.
How to Give Appreciated Stock
Tax Credit Programs for Businesses
The Community Foundation of Fayette County is approved as a Scholarship Organization, Pre-Kindergarten Organization, and an Educational Improvement Organization. Your Pennsylvania business may be eligible to receive tax credits through the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). To apply for the tax credits, businesses must submit the DCED’s Single Application for Assistance. If approved, your donation to CFFC will provide tuition assistance and other educational opportunities for Fayette County students through these programs.
The Pre-K and K-12 scholarships provide tuition assistance for families attending participating private schools in Fayette County. Families can get an application from their school and submit it to CFFC, according to each year’s EITC timeline.
Educational improvement grants provide funding to local school districts for innovative educational programs. CFFC has two approved programs that receive funding in December, based on the year’s contributions.
Contact Us
Community Foundation of Fayette County
250 West Main Street
Uniontown, PA 15401
Phone: 724-437-8600
Fax: 724-438-3856
