GCF/UW Human Services Endowment Partnership

Imagine today the power of the legacy we can create for tomorrow …

• Children starting life healthy and ready to learn
• People of all ages and abilities living safe, healthy lives
• Individuals and families building skills and assets

PRINCIPLES

Vision
Extend your compassion by investing in our community’s future, sustaining and enhancing the availability of critical human services to address problems facing future generations.

Leadership
For decades United Way of Greater Cincinnati and The Greater Cincinnati Foundation have shared a commitment to improving people’s lives. Today, we’re focusing our combined energies and expertise on the future. By working in partnership we will ensure ours is a community where children thrive, adults and families succeed and a safety net of care and support is maintained for those most in need – for all time.

Action
You can join us to extend your generosity through the power of endowment and achieve results that will truly better our entire community.

Please read our Frequently Asked Questions.

THE POWER OF ENDOWMENT

An endowment by definition is a gift that provides income, maintaining the principal (the amount of the original gift) in perpetuity, investing to produce present and future income to support charitable purposes. Your gift – and all future earnings from your gift – becomes a permanent source of community capital, helping do good work today and in the future.

For example, an endowment set up today will make charitable distributions totaling the amount of the gift within about 16 years. But, the fund will live forever and keep supporting human services.

An endowment is your opportunity to benefit the community forever. It can be as simple as including a bequest for human services in your will. Because bequests are deferred, they allow you to make a gift far larger than you could during your lifetime. A bequest can be a specific dollar amount or a percentage of your estate.

To make a bequest, use the suggested following language in your will:

“I give and bequeath to The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, an Ohio nonprofit corporation (FEIN 31-0669700) (the sum of money, percentage of estate, or description of gift).  I request this Fund be named the ______________________ Fund and be held and administered in accordance with the Articles of Incorporation and Code of Regulations creating The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, as now or hereafter amended. Further, the charitable purpose of this fund shall be to make annual distributions to United Way of Greater Cincinnati for its unrestricted charitable purposes.”