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Donating highly appreciated stock to a fund at Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) offers significant advantages for your clients over making cash gifts. Communicating this benefit, however, can be challenging when clients have emotional attachments to their shares. How can you overcome this hurdle and help optimize your clients’ charitable giving…

If you’re a business owner, odds are you already give back to your community. Like many charitably minded people, your business likely sponsors events, makes in-kind donations, and donates cash to favorite organizations. Many local business owners work with GCF to give back to the community where they built their…

What does it take to live within your means? By design, Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is positioned to be aware of and respond to the needs of the community. Every day staff are intimately working with our community partners across sectors – ranging from hunger to housing and education to…

Hamilton County ballot issue will fund new bus routes, road repairs When you go to the polls in Hamilton County on Tuesday, March 17, we encourage you to support Issue 7 with a “Yes” vote. Issue 7 would replace Cincinnati’s 0.3 percent earnings tax with a 0.8 percent Hamilton County…

“In our efforts toward a more equitable community for all, we know that where people work and where they live are fundamental.  Through our investments, leadership, convenings, advocacy, education and awareness building, GCF is committed to advancing equity in housing as a critical step to insuring that everyone has an…

Without legislation to prevent it, the sunsetting of current estate tax laws at the end of 2025 will dramatically reduce the federal estate tax exemption from $13.61 million per person in 2024 to approximately $7 million in 2026 (this includes adjustments for inflation). This change would affect many high net-worth…

Andrea Cornett and Ginny Wiltse joke that after raising eight children, Helen Steiner Rice was their mother’s ninth child. This “child” was a beloved poet and inspirational writer who passed away at age 81 in 1981. Andrea and Ginny’s father, former Cincinnati Mayor Eugene Ruehlmann, was Helen’s attorney. Helen wanted to…

Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is a proud sponsor of Black & Brown Faces, a new exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum running October 23, 2020 – January 3, 2021 that features 10 Black regional artists’ portrayal of facial expressions of people of color during the extremes of 2020. Emphasizing mental…

When need arises in our community, we’re on it. As the coronavirus pandemic brought business shutdowns and stay-at-home orders, Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) knew that immediate action was critical. Our donors wanted to connect with funding opportunities ensuring the most impact. Our nonprofit partners sought resources to address new, urgent…

Equity training sessions will explore causes of racism, ways to pursue constructive dialogue CINCINNATI (April 11, 2019) – Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is committed to bringing people in our community together to learn about racial equity through conversations that foster understanding and move us forward in impactful ways. To advance that…

“It was the most insightful and thought-provoking training about the big-picture perspective that I have ever attended.” — Lt. Chantia Miller, Cincinnati Police Department Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is hosting Racial Equity Matters trainings this year as part of its commitment to the pursuit of racial equity in our region. We believe…

Eddie Koen, President & CEO, Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio, discusses how its grant from the COVID-19 Regional Response Fund helped the Urban League impact local health disparities. “So it [COVID-19 Regional Response Fund grant] has really provided clarity on using our trusted reputation in the community. The impact…

It may be December, but there is still plenty of time to give before 2020 ends. Below are three opportunities to consider as you plan your end-of-year generosity. A Special Gift: Collection of Wishes helps local nonprofits buy essential items or equipment. For the second year, we feature 10 nonprofits…

Racial Equity Matters presented by bi3 is Changing Hearts and Minds Many people believe that our systems are broken, that our neighbors fall behind because of flaws in our institutions. But that’s not true. The systems aren’t broken. They’re working exactly as they were meant to, and that’s the problem….

In keeping with our mission of connecting people with purpose, Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) ramped up our commitment to offering Giving Circle opportunities this year. It’s an interactive game plan that brings like-minded people together to pool their resources, explore together how to support the causes they care about and,…

Greater Cincinnati Foundation’s (GCF) Giving Black: Cincinnati report, released last December, documented in detail the history and legacy of black generosity in our region. The philanthropic spirit of black communities has always been a significant force, long before it was recognized as such. What is changing is the awareness that…