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Your clients may have several personal and/or financial reasons to explore the idea of philanthropy. Whether a donor wants to give during or after their lifetime, planning a gift through The Winnipeg Foundation ensures that their donation will help improve our community in perpetuity. By partnering with The Winnipeg Foundation, professional advisors of all kinds – estate planners, attorneys, accountants, lawyers, financial advisors and others – can help their clients fulfill their financial and charitable goals.

Here’s how we can help:

We work with you. You stay in control of your client relationships – we’re here to help you provide a full range of services to your clients.

We are experts on charitable giving. Whether it’s putting together a complicated estate plan or considering the alternatives to a private foundation, we can tailor giving plans to meet your clients’ particular needs.

We are experts about our community, so we can help your clients be as effective as possible in their giving.

We help you connect across generations. When you help families establish an advised fund with us, you and they can stay involved for generations.

We help your clients donate a variety of assets, including cash, appreciated securities, and real estate. These can be assets they give now or later, as part of their estate plans.

You can help make a difference in the lives of your clients. By partnering with us, you may be able to help your clients derive the most effective benefits for their personal financial plans, leave a legacy in the community, and teach their children about philanthropy.

As a registered charitable community foundation, we offer maximum tax benefits. And starting a fund at a community foundation is significantly less expensive – and easier – than starting a private foundation.

Donors to The Winnipeg Foundation have a variety of options available to them - both in how they give and in how their gift is used. No matter which method they choose, your clients can be confident that their gifts to The Winnipeg Foundation will help ensure a secure future for charitable causes that they care about while reducing the amount they pay in taxes.

Through our Consolidated Trust Fund, individual funds held at the Foundation are invested in a diversified portfolio that helps us best meet our goal to support the community.


To find out more about the Foundation's Gift Acceptance, Spending and Investment Policies, click here.