GIVING TOGETHER

GIVING T OGET H E R

With long days, warm night and everything abloom, it’s easy to feel particularly blessed this time of year. If you’re looking to share your blessings with the larger community, it can be a daunting task knowing where to start. Northern New Mexico’s many nonprofits are all deserving, but it can be difficult to know the scope of what’s out there. Luckily, there exists the Santa Fe Community Foundation and its Giving Together catalogue.

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he Santa Fe Community Foundation serves Santa Fe County and six surrounding counties, including Taos, Rio Arriba, Los Alamos, Mora and San Miguel. Founded in 1981, the Santa Fe Community Foundation provides a vehicle both for donors to give and for nonprofit organizations to receive funding. “Generous individuals and families in the community open funds here at the Santa Fe Community Foundation. From there, the donor will receive a tax exempt letter and can then thoughtfully recommend grants as they deem appropriate,” explains Christa Coggins, the vice president of community philanthropy.

Twice a year — spring and fall — the Santa Fe Community Foundation publishes its Giving Together catalogue.

The publication is a unique service to the foundation’s fundholders, who use the catalogue to inform their own

philanthropic decisions. The Giving Together catalogue is highly-valued by donor-advised fundholders seeking the latest information on the current needs of local nonprofits. Many fundholders use the Giving Together catalogue to learn about critical community issues, and additional information is readily available from the foundation staff. Fundholders’ conversations with foundation staff around the Giving Together catalogue often result in a site visit so the fundholder can learn how to best make an impact through their grants.

The Giving Together catalogues reflect the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s grant cycles: the spring issue focuses on economic opportunity, education and the environment; the fall issue highlights animal welfare, arts, health and human services. Each catalogue summarizes the nonprofit grant applications of the season. While each organization has undergone basic due diligence, the

submissions have not be filtered by staff. To be included in the catalogue, an applicant must be a legally operating nonprofit in good standing with the IRS, serve Santa Fe and/or the six counties of north central New Mexico, and must have been in existence for a minimum of three years.

Donor advised fundholders and nonprofit organizations have both come to treasure the Giving Together catalogues. In its five years of existence, Giving Together has channeled over $1.35 million in grants.

As the breadth and depth of giving grows, the philanthropic community can rest assured that through the Giving Together catalogues, the Santa Fe Community Foundation is representing and promoting the many deserving nonprofits in and around Santa Fe. For more information visit www.santafecf.org