Nonprofits and the Unity Foundation – What a Team!

Nonprofit organizations can profit greatly from an affiliation with a community foundation such as Unity. Your goals are our goals. Our resources are your resources. Our permanent pool of funds benefits local charities, and with many ways to serve the community, we attract donors as a flexible and efficient way to meet their charitable intentions.

Save the Dunes, Michigan City Habitat for Humanity, LaPorte YMCA, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Gary and the LaPorte Hospital Foundation are a few nonprofits that have discovered the value of teamwork with Unity.

Nonprofit services available through the Unity Foundation

1. Technical assistance - Resource links
- Affordable training
- One-on-one help
- Affordable brochures on planned giving
- Resources and reference materials
- Access to planned giving information and expertise

2. Grants
- Potential source of project funds
- Broad interest areas
- Grants growing
- Some national funders attracted to community foundations such as Unity
- Unity needs you too!

3. Agency Endowment Funds
- Help in marketing your fund and your group via foundation publications
- Joint prospect calls
- Professional investment management
- Managed for long-term growth and steady pay-outs
- Keeps your board focused on mission

4. Advocacy and Partnership
- Advocate your project through letters of support or seed money
- Can partner to do assessments, coordination or collaboration
- Partner to write and win grants
- Advocate for giving and community good

5. Promote philanthropy to donors and to professional advisors
- Connect donors with their charitable values, whatever they are
-- Leave A Legacy to increase awareness of planned giving
-- Focus on advisors through seminars and new Northwest Indiana Planned Giving site