Center for Corporate Philanthropy

Helping you through effective corporate giving

The Columbus Foundation’s Center for Corporate Philanthropy is your resource for making your corporate giving as cost-effective and tax-efficient as possible.

Benefits of a corporate giving program include:
  • Support for community needs that strategically align with business priorities, mission and goals
  • Relationships that build trust and inspire loyalty with community leaders, officials, consumers, and other stakeholders
  • Positive name recognition, increased brand awareness, and consumer allegiance
  • Enhance reputation, standing, and goodwill of business in the community
  • Commitment to local initiatives that strengthen our community now and for the future
  • A corporate culture of community involvement, civic leadership, and volunteerism that augments employee morale and loyalty
  • Exposure of employees to new ideas, points of view and important community issues
  • Development of a reservoir of goodwill or a trust account within the community that can sustain a company in a time of crisis or economic change

Benefits of a partnership:
  • Economic and efficient alternative to a private foundation and internal administration
  • Ability to contribute to the fund when it is financially advantageous and sustain giving during challenging economic times
  • Strategies to develop a giving program and engage employees
  • Professional management and oversight of investments
  • Financial reports and tax reporting of assets in a fund
  • Prompt grant processing and gift acknowledgement services
  • Due diligence research of grant suggestions
  • “Buffer effect” to neutralize politics of gift requests and denials
  • Networking events with other business and community donors and supporters

 

The Columbus Foundation provides a variety of giving vehicles to create, structure, and manage corporate philanthropy. By working with the Center for Corporate Philanthropy, we can help you build relationships; respond to community needs; and sustain, strengthen, and improve quality of life in our community through your corporate giving program.
 

For your convenience, download a copy of our Center for Corporate Philanthropy Guidebook or request a copy by mail.

To learn more, contact a member of our Donor Services team by e-mail. Or, if you are interested in becoming a donor, please complete this brief Become a Donor form and a Donor Services officer will respond within the next business day.