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Establish a Program or Area Specific Fund
One way that CCT can help you meet your philanthropic goals is through our Program or Area Specific Funds. These funds benefit a specific purpose: a region, program or resource. A fund can focus on a specific geographic area like the Front Range or the Wet Mountain Valley. A fund can be established to support a specific program like the fellowship program, which places recent graduates of leading graduate schools with different land trusts around the state for one year fellowship positions. Or, you can establish a fund to benefit a certain resource, like land or water. In contrast to our Field of Interest Funds, when you establish a Program or Area Specific Fund, you chart the course of your giving and recommend projects for funding. CCT can provide guidance in your grantmaking.

With this fund, you maximize your tax benefits and are free from the details of financial management, reporting and other paperwork. CCT handles all financial and administrative work, including IRS filings, investment management, reporting, grants management, and other paperwork. This fund can be created with a minimum gift of $10,000.

The Colorado Conservation Trust will be pleased to work with you to ensure your wishes are met. Colorado finds a different place in each of our hearts. Protecting our state guarantees that the sentiments we tie to landscapes are preserved for those that have come before us and for those that have yet to come.

Establish a Donor Advised Fund
For individuals or families seeking active involvement in philanthropy, donor advised funds create a working partnership with CCT. You chart the course of your giving and recommend projects for funding.  Funds spent are at the discretion of the donor(s).  You maximize your tax benefits and are free from the details of financial management, reporting and other paperwork.  CCT handles all financial and administrative work, including IRS filings, investment management, reporting, grants management, and other paperwork. 

CCT can set up and manage the fund and provide a set of grantmaking options for the individual or family decision-making each year.  We also offer such services as grant evaluation, learning opportunities and project tours. CCT also conducts due diligence on the organizations both before and after the grants were made.  Funds may be named to recognize the donor, family or organization, to honor a friend or family member or to protect your confidentiality.  You may create a donor advised fund with a minimum gift of $10,000.

Establish a Field of Interest Fund
By establishing or contributing to a field of interest fund, donors may support a specific geographic area or protect a particular type of land (e.g. ranchlands or wildlife habitat), yet maintain freedom from the specifics of grant selection and financial management. You may establish the fund in your own or your family's name. Or, you may name a fund, e.g. "Roaring Fork Valley Fund", to protect your confidentiality. You may create a Field of Interest Fund with a minimum gift of $10,000.

Give a Gift of Unrestricted Funds
By giving an unrestricted gift, donors support land conservation efforts in the most flexible way and make funds available to respond to the most pressing needs regardless of location. There is no funding minimum of maximum.

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