Category: Philanthropy
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Your Giving Journey Doesn’t Have To Be A Solo Trip
Giving back to your community is an opportunity to live your values, but it can be difficult to figure out where to begin. The good news is that you don’t have to do it alone. As a community foundation, GTCF advises many different donors and funders, each with their own vision, values, and goals. They > Continue Reading
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It Takes A Community To Build A Community For All Ages
The Mustard Seed Project on Key Peninsula, like most nonprofit businesses, achieves its mission through a mix of vision, funding, and broad community support. As the organization has grown its impact and revenue, connections with diverse funders and philanthropic tools help further secure its long-term stability. Multi-generational bingo at The Mustard Seed Project “Getting older > Continue Reading
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Legacy Giving Can Transform the Future of Pierce County
In 2021, GTCF commissioned a Transfer of Wealth report that showed Pierce County has a household net worth of $269 Billion. Over the next 10 years, our community will see $48.6 Billion transfer from one generation to the next. Soon after that report was released, Leave 10 South Sound launched. Leave 10 South Sound > Continue Reading
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A Strategy for a Thriving Pierce County
One of the earliest GTCF annual reports, in 1983, put forth an idea that is just as relevant today, “the community foundation may be a catalyst to convince disparate groups to work together towards a common objective. Thus, over the years, a community foundation becomes a collection of many stories. Each tells how people > Continue Reading
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Threading the Needle: Donating Business Interests to Charity
Because business owners are focused on the growth and success of their business, they may not have philanthropy on their radar right away. However, if they decide to sell their business, they have an opportunity to make a major impact for the causes and organizations in their community that matter to them. Often referred > Continue Reading
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Local Journalism and Local Funders Fuel Civic Voice and Power
Local journalism can make the difference between getting involved in community solutions or being caught off guard by events that arise from otherwise unseen issues. That was the case following a recent article from the nonprofit news site, Gig Harbor Now (GHN). Newcomers could see how beautiful the view is, but I wanted them to > Continue Reading
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Loving Tacoma for the Long Term
Sitting around the dining room table at her family’s Tacoma home, Ann Wiborg and a group of fellow local leaders met in the Fall of 1977. They shared a vision of supporting the needs and opportunities of their community for generations to come. Four years later, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation (GTCF) officially launched with $10,000 > Continue Reading
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Toward Transformation: Equity-Centric Philanthropy in the Pacific Northwest
For the first time in her professional career, Elena Pullen-Venema can say that her personal racial equity values and those of her employer are coming into alignment. Elena, who’s been with the Community Foundation of Snohomish County since 2012 and now serves as Director of Gift Planning there, says the foundation began “deep-dive” equity discussions as a staff a > Continue Reading
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Complex Gifts Can Simply Transform Communities
“Sometimes the most important stuff is not all about the money.” – Marydale Brooks The late Marydale Brooks believed the “important stuff” happened “when everyone starts pitching in with their talents, resources, or pure grunt work to get the job done.” A longtime Buckley resident, she was unassuming in her demeanor, community-minded, and collaborative in > Continue Reading
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Listening to Youth Helps Drive Racial Equity At Pierce County Nonprofits
Jonathan Jackson, Palmer Scholars’ Executive Director, runs an organization that supports underrepresented Pierce County students of color to overcome financial, cultural, and social barriers in their pursuit of higher education. He pointed to the fact that youth voice is essential for their mission, “If you’re talking about building an equitable future, but you’re not > Continue Reading