open a scholarship fund

keep it local

With an ECCF Scholarship Fund, you’re unlocking possibilities for young people in your community and beyond. Opening a fund is easy – you invest and grow tax-deductible charitable dollars and make scholarship gifts to individuals or through educational institutions that you choose. ECCF Scholarship Funds turn what can be a complex process to administer into a simple, customized way for your generosity to make significant impact.

Scholarship Funds offer one-stop management, detailed reporting and the benefit of having a local team of philanthropy experts behind you.

THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS

A community foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the people who live in the region they serve. We launch community leadership initiatives, support donors on their philanthropic journeys and help nonprofit organizations increase their capacity through grantmaking, coalition building and education. Many, like ECCF, offer a range of charitable investment vehicles to power this work, including donor-advised, scholarships, field-of-interest, and nonprofit funds.

While some of these charitable investment vehicles are offered by big banks and investment firms, it’s only at a community foundation like ECCF that the industry-standard management fees are reinvested in your local community. Combined with our knowledge of the real challenges and opportunities facing our region, community foundations have an outsized impact on the people and places they serve.