Navigating the complicated landscape of charitable giving can be challenging when you’ve been entrusted with much. But the good news is you’re not alone. We can connect you to a creative generosity ecosystem designed to support your giving journey all along the way.
Our role as a hub of charitable giving innovation sets the National Christian Foundation (NCF) apart. Our ecosystem brings together generosity partners, cause experts, legacy gift planners, experienced charitable professionals, and faithful givers to create an extensive network unlike any other.
Let’s look at some of the resources you can use to confidently discern, design, and deploy your giving:
Discern
Wisdom and discernment from a biblical perspective are essential parts of stewardship. That’s why our approach is grounded in 10 principles of biblical generosity, which provide a foundation for understanding God’s heart for giving. You can also explore other teachings and perspective in our Generosity Library, the largest collection of generosity resources available online today. And our weekly Saturday 7 e-newsletter is your source for timely generosity inspiration, articles, podcasts, videos, and events throughout the ecosystem.
NCF’s Giving Strategy™ experience is another powerful tool to help you explore the unique story of generosity God is writing through your giving. Carefully crafted exercises and conversations allow you to uncover your giving purpose, identify your areas of passion, and align your resources with your values.
From a personal perspective, your local NCF team can help you explore your giving questions one-on-one and with givers in your community who share your values. They can help you get to know Certified Kingdom Advisors who will support your generous goals. And we partner with organizations for events – like Generous Giving for Journeys of Generosity and Women Doing Well for The Pathway – to help you find purpose through giving. Through these experiences, as well as Bible studies, prayer groups, and other gatherings, you can find encouragement, share experiences, and gain fresh perspectives on stewardship.
Business owners can take a next step by joining a group of Christian business owners to align their leadership with their values or a peer-to-peer advisory community for support or executive coaching. And investors can join a local Faith-Driven group to learn how their capital can grow and fund God’s purposes in this world.
Design
Sometimes, God calls you to his purposes in a way that requires a more sophisticated, strategic approach. And there’s no one-size-fits-all approach because God has entrusted each person with different complexities, resources, and balance sheets. You need someone who shares your values and can walk with you through these complexities.
This is where NCF’s deep expertise in charitable planning and innovative solutions comes into play. Our in-house team of charitable gift planners works alongside your trusted advisors (like Certified Kingdom Advisors) to optimize your impact.
Through our creative non-cash giving strategies, we empower you to gift business interests, real estate or other non-cash assets, so you can potentially give significantly more by leveraging the assets you already have.
We also offer charitable legacy and succession planning to ensure your future impact, as well as sophisticated investment options to help grow your charitable dollars for more giving.
Deploy
When it’s time to mobilize your resources, a wealth of options exists to help you quickly respond to needs, creatively give with others, and inspire more generosity.
Your Giving Fund (donor-advised fund) at NCF makes it simple to research charities, give in times of crisis, make contributions, recommend grants, set goals, track your progress, print reports at tax time, and manage all your giving online.
For international granting, our friends at TrustBridge Global Foundation make giving directly to any charity in the world easy, safe, and efficient, and our friends at Impact Foundation provide a streamlined way to fund transformational businesses and make loans to charity. And for times when you need to recommend grants to an individual, rather than a charity, our relationship with Helping Hands Ministries makes that possible.
When you need more information about local causes, your NCF team can introduce you to cause experts and generosity thought leaders to help you understand your community’s unique needs. We can also connect you with exciting, collaborative opportunities, like Impact Alliances or local giving circles.
If you’re needing a little more assistance, our local teams are great resources. And if you’re wanting more structure for your giving, we can get you connected with a philanthropic consultant who will help you strategize your giving goals and dig deeper into discovering the legacy you want to leave.
With you for the journey
Whatever you need along your giving journey, NCF is here to help. If we don’t have the answer, we can assure you there is someone within this ecosystem who does. Above all, we’re committed to doing whatever it takes to help you make the most of every dollar, every decision, and every opportunity you have.
Contact your NCF team to explore how our generosity ecosystem can help you.
