Flexibility

Tax Benefits:

As a public charity, a community foundation offers donors the maximum tax benefits allowed for charitable giving.

Tax Benefits

Flexibility:

Your clients can give what they want, when they want, how they want. Through a variety of fund types, your clients can give during their lifetime or through an estate gift.

Personalized Services

Personalized Services:

We can meet with you and your client, take care of charitable due diligence, and maintain tax records. Your clients can be as deeply or minimally involved as they like.

Permanence

Permanence:

Endowed funds benefit the community in perpetuity and extend your client’s generosity to future generations.

Professional Advisors

The Greater New Orleans Foundation is the community foundation serving the 13-parish region of metropolitan New Orleans.

WE DO OUR WORK BY:

Designing and leading
initiatives to improve the region.

Connecting donors to
community needs.

Identifying and supporting
great nonprofit organizations.

Strengthening civil society.

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National Standards

For over 25 years, the Greater New Orleans Foundation has been connecting donors to community needs. It is part of our mission to help you and your clients achieve your charitable and financial goals. As a community foundation, we offer simple and significantly tax-advantaged alternatives to a private foundation, allowing donors to dedicate their gifts and time to perpetuating their values and impacting their community.

Why Partner with GNOF?

GNOF Provides your clients with flexibility, maximum tax benefits, expertise, personalized services, a professionally managed portfolio, recognition or anonymity, and more.

Ways to Give

The Greater New Orleans Foundation can be your resource to maximize these financial opportunities for your client and the charitable causes they care about most.

Types of Funds

There are a variety of fund types available to meet all your clients’ needs.

Investment Performance

Learn about our assets, contributions, and financial statements.

GNOF or Private Foundation

Donor advised funds versus commercially affliated chartiable fund versus private foundation.

Planned Giving

Provides an online wills planner and gift calculator, eNewsletter, financial news, and more.

Cornerstone Council

In order to better serve you, your clients, and existing donors, the Greater New Orleans Foundation created the Cornerstone Council, a forum of regional professional advisors.

Toolkit

Understand how to open a fund at the Foundation, administrative fees, gift acceptance policies and guidelines.

To learn more about how a partnership with the Greater New Orleans Foundation can meet your clients’ needs, please contact Alice B. Parkerson, vice president of development, at (504) 598-1291, or alice@gnof.org.