When a foundation is initially created, its governing documents are a creature of circumstance—usually, there is some tax or charitable impulse that is driving the creation of the foundation. The ...

Alexandra Armstrong, one of the first individuals to obtain a CFP certification, still remembers walking into Ameriprise more than 25 years ago and asking for a $10 million donation. Armstrong, now 81 ...

Have a question about foundations? Ask the authors. They might answer it in the next installment of their monthly column on running effective foundations. As more and more foundations seek to increase ...

Kevin Murphy doesn’t want his hometown of Reading, Pa., to join the list, but he feels it’s almost inevitable. The president of the Berks County Community Foundation, in Pennsylvania, has watched as ...

Hopefully, when and how you take your Social Security benefits is not driven solely on emotion. I often hear people say they are taking benefits as early as they can because they earned them, and ...

The Bay Terraces Community and Senior Center in San Diego. The city marked its opening in August 2021. Photo credit: @CityofSanDiego, via Twitter A private foundation on Thursday introduced its “San ...

The Great American Songbook Foundation plans to construct a museum in Carmel north of the Center for the Performing Arts. The organization has entered into a preliminary agreement with the city of ...

The Valley Vision 2050 economic development program that received $1 million in funding Nov. 30 from the Mahoning County commissioners is built on a strategic plan written by the economic development ...

That was my response when I when I first heard the now-ubiquitous term “goals-based investing” several years ago. Isn’t all investing “goals-based”? And if people aren’t investing with goals in mind, ...

Input from across Hancock County has resulted in a comprehensive quality of place plan for the county, which county officials ...

The Rhode Island Foundation is pledging $1 million in emergency grants to go toward filling the void soon to be left by the ...