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Stay up to date with our latest announcements and updates. Our blog provides regular updates, enhancements, and other news related to HCCEF.

2024 Community Grant and Arts & Culture Grant Recipients

2024 Community Grant and Arts & Culture Grant RecipientsThe 2024 Community Grant and Arts & Culture Grant recipients list has been announced by the Hardin County Community Endowment Foundation.   All recipients must attend Awards Night on April 4th to...

2024 Schiller Fund Recipients

The Schiller Fund has officially revealed the recipients of their grants for this year. A total of $261,800 was allocated to various community projects, showcasing the foundation's commitment to giving back. The selection process was undoubtedly challenging, with 32...

Charitable Investment Partners Program

Helping your clients establish a charitable fund through the Hardin County Community Endowment Foundation is easy with the Charitable Investment Partners program.   This program allows your clients to establish funds at the Foundation while you continue to manage...

Charitable Solutions

Professional Advisor Resources As you work with clients to meet their charitable and financial goals, the Community Foundation is here to work alongside you. Below you will find resources on ways we can work together, unique opportunities available through the...

Transfer of Wealth Statistics

Endowed funds last forever and grow over time because the principal is never spent. Earnings are used to make grants in the name of each fund, supporting charitable causes and creating personal legacies of giving throughout Hardin County. On the average, Iowans...

Keep Iowa Growing

Keep Iowa Growing Keep Iowa Growing provides a commitment to retaining farmland and ensuring the land will stay in production as it has for generations. The farmland will continue to yield, while the causes you care about will benefit from your legacy of giving. Gifts...

TAX BENEFITS

Tax BenefitsThe Endow Iowa program is part of an effort to enhance philanthropic activity in the State of Iowa by encouraging contributions to community foundations. The program provides significant additional tax incentives for individual, business or organizational...

STARTING A FUND

STARTING A FUNDGiving is one of the most personal and important things you can do. It allows you to have an impact on the well being of your community and it expresses gratitude. By giving you can impact the quality of life for those throughout Hardin County today and...

What is a Community Foundation?

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Howards establish two new IFAHS scholarships

BY JUSTIN ITES ites@iafalls.com Through the creation of two new scholarships, students at Iowa Falls-Alden High School will benefit from the generosity of Scott and Kathy Howard. With the help of the Hardin County Community Endowment Foundation, the couple have...
TAX BENEFITS

TAX BENEFITS

Tax BenefitsThe Endow Iowa program is part of an effort to enhance philanthropic activity in the State of Iowa by encouraging contributions to community foundations. The program provides significant additional tax incentives for individual, business or organizational...

STARTING A FUND

STARTING A FUND

STARTING A FUNDGiving is one of the most personal and important things you can do. It allows you to have an impact on the well being of your community and it expresses gratitude. By giving you can impact the quality of life for those throughout Hardin County today and...

Howards establish two new IFAHS scholarships

BY JUSTIN ITES ites@iafalls.com Through the creation of two new scholarships, students at Iowa Falls-Alden High School will benefit from the generosity of Scott and Kathy Howard. With the help of the Hardin County Community Endowment Foundation, the couple have...

Letter to the Editor – Oct. 4, 2021

Helen Keller once said, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”  Having just completed nine years on the board of the Hardin County Community Foundation, I got to witness this truth over and over.  During those years, the foundation distributed grants...

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