Benefits of Working with CFT
Who benefits from working with CFT?
 Individuals
- Develop your personal, strategic philanthropic plan with the help of our knowledge and staff
- Use our community knowledge and specialized tools (such as the Giving Guide, North Texas Giving Day, Cause-Minded Conversations) to further your philanthropic goals
- Leverage our assets and investment expertise to grow your charitable dollars
- Plan your lifetime giving as well as your legacy in the community
- Simplify the mechanics of your giving and maximize the ways and assets you can give
- Choose how visible your giving is in the community
- Partner with us and other committed people to address critical issues in North Texas, across the country and around the world
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 Families
- Define your family’s charitable interests and goals
- Use our resources to help raise responsible, generous children
- Partner with our expert staff to identify causes and programs to benefit from your family’s time and funds.
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 Businesses
- Work with our experts to create a charitable program that complements your business goals
- Outsource the work of your corporate foundation to us
- Join Entrepreneurs For North Texas (EFNT) to build your employee culture and business success by doing good
- Open a business-advised fund
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Foundations
- Partner with us to address community needs
- Depend on our philanthropic services and nonprofit vetting
- When you need more time to decide, donate your 5% payout to CFT and let us help you
- Convert to a donor-advised fund at CFT, reducing expenses and realizing deductibility of gifts from a public charity
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 Nonprofits
- Partner with us to solve critical social issues
- Be visible to our fund holders through the annual LOI process and resultant Giving Guide
- Participate in North Texas Giving Day and be eligible for part challenge funds and prize money
- Have your program, financial and leadership information available to strategic donors 365 days a year through DonorBridge, have your program, financial and leadership information available to strategic donors 365 days a year
- Leverage our assets and investment expertise and allow us to manage your investments and/or endowment by opening an agency fund
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Schools
- CFT funds initiatives impacting early childhood education programs, K-12 and postsecondary education, as well as after school and summer leadership programs
- Join Educate Texas mission to strengthen the public school education system so that every Texas student is prepared for success in school, in the workforce, and in life.
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Geri Jacobs
Director of Charitable Gift Planning
214-750-4255
gjacobs@cftexas.org
Contact me for a confidential consultation about a giving program to fit your needs.