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Grantmaking

Get answers on questions related to grantmaking, including international grantmaking, disaster grantmaking, advocacy, and a variety of tricky grants.

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Foundation Management

Learn about such issues as creating policies, setting compensation, addressing conflicting relationships and avoiding self-dealing, finance, accounting and investment best practices, directors and officers insurance, and determining what information is subject to public disclosure laws.

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Contributions & Donors

Maintaining donor relationships and understanding the rules for accepting and acknowledging charitable contributions are important skills for grantmakers who solicit or accept contributions.

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Giving Rules & Regulations

Find information about actions that legislative, regulatory and judicial bodies are taking that could affect your organization at the state and/or federal levels. Includes provisions from the Pension Protection Act of 2006 and the Internal Revenue Code.

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Finance & Investment

Access recommended best practices for managing foundation investments and other financial resources.

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Starting & Closing a Foundation

For the major steps in your organization's life-cycle including starting, merging, and closing down.

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Frequently Asked Legal Questions

From starting a foundation to scholarship programs, these FAQs help you gain a basic understanding of key issues facing private foundations and public charities.

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Family Foundations and the Law: Answers to Essential Questions


This cornerstone resource for family philanthropies helps directors, trustees, and key staff navigate the "gray areas" that require professional legal guidance. It provides quick, summarized, user-friendly explanations about basic laws and regulations in a simple question-and-answer format. Now, for the first time since passage of the most significant charitable-reform legislation in decades—the Pension Protection Act of 2006—here's the one book that incorporates what you really need to know to ensure your family foundation adheres to the letter of the law.
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Contact Us

Kelly Shipp Simone

Vice President, Legal Affairs

kelly.simone@cof.org
703-879-0716


Kristy Tsadick

Counsel

kristy.tsadick@cof.org
703-879-0718

Suzanne Friday

Counsel

suzanne.friday@cof.org
703-879-0705



Johanna Van Dyke

Manager, Legal and Public Policy

johanna.vandyke@cof.org
703-879-0713

Lisa Hoeksema

Paralegal and Contracts Manager

lisa.hoeksema@cof.org
703-879-0717