Making transformational connections every day 
Founded in 1959 by the community, for the community, your Community Foundation is looking ahead to new opportunities to transform this place we call home. Join us as we explore the next great initiative that will make the next 50 years even better for everyone. Click here to flip through our 50th Anniversary Report to the Community and click on one of the images below to learn more about our current activities.


We are YOUR Community Foundation. We listen to what our community wants and we seek to serve those needs through effective grantmaking to our nonprofit partners and as a catalyst and convener. We seek to grow philanthropy by providing the latest options for flexible and tax-effective giving and connecting charitable individuals, families and businesses with new ways to use their resources to build a brighter future for everyone. Imagine what we can do together!
  
Ways to contribute
Choose current giving or a bequest to support the causes you care about
Helping your clients
Find the flexible, high-impact, tax-effective options for giving that family & business clients
Assisting nonprofits
Apply for grants to serve the priorities and make the impact our community wants

STAY CONNECTED
Sign up to receive CONNECT, our print newsletter, or  to receive 50 WAYS TO LOVE OUR COMMUNITY, a weekly e-mail update highlighting what's great about greater Birmingham.  If you are a professional advisor, sign up for Community Foundation Solutions, the e-newsletter that helps you help your clients.

Follow the Community Foundation on Twitter, join the Community Foundation group on Facebook or Linked In or check out our Imagine50 blog. We want to make it easy to connect you with your community and what we are all doing together to build a brighter future.

FOR DONOR ADVISORS
Your Community Foundation
Limited access to reports and on-line grantmaking is now available for fund advisors through Your Community Foundation. For more information about how you can use YourCF for a current advised grantmaking fund, contact Kathryn Corey at 327-3828. For information about setting up a new advised fund, contact Erin Stephenson at 327-3805.

Merrill Lynch Community Charitable Fund
A separate on-line portal serves donor advisors using Merrill Lynch Community Charitable Fund, a national partnership program.


 SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
REGIONS FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Sirote & Permutt, PC

Link to @comfoundbham

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