Professional Advisors

Giving Solutions for Your Client

Partnering for

good

Think of us as your local giving experts. When your clients want to give back to the community, we are here to ensure they can support the causes they care about, with a tax-wise investment.

Local Knowledge

Choosing to work with a local organization has local benefits. We provide insights and share knowledge about what’s needed here, so together we can make our community better and stronger for the future.

Personal Service

Whether your client prefers to be all-in or hands off, we will tailor our services to their desired level of involvement. We’ll also take care of the paperwork so they can simply enjoy giving.

Values-based Solutions

We steward your client’s charitable legacy. Whether a client is looking to support faith-based causes, their alma maters, or specific causes, we will create a personalized a giving plan based on their values and community relationships.

Reinvesting in our Community

As a nonprofit, we reinvest our administrative fees to address local issues and make life better. When your client invests here, instead of with a national provider, their fees are reinvested in creating programs like Give BIG Green Bay to generate a positive impact across our community.

Paths to

impact

Whether your client wants to simplify their giving today or leave a legacy for the future, our team helps find the best path for thoughtful and impactful investments in our community.

Donor Advised Funds

Donor-advised funds are a flexible giving tool that can be created by individuals, families, and businesses to support the causes they care about.

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Collaborative Funds

Collaborative funds leverage the power of collective giving to make a greater impact.

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Planned Gifts

Including the Community Foundation in your estate plan is a way for you to ensure that good grows here for generations to come.

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Donor Advised Funds

Donor-advised funds are a flexible giving tool that can be created by individuals, families, and businesses to support the causes they care about.

LEARN MORE →

Collaborative Funds

Collaborative funds leverage the power of collective giving to make a greater impact.

LEARN MORE→

Planned Gifts

Including the Community Foundation in your estate plan is a way for you to ensure that good grows here for generations to come.

LEARN MORE →

More Ways to Give:

Choose your favorite charities, church, or alma mater to receive annual support from a designated fund.

Explore the benefits of designated fund →

Establish a field of interest fund to support a specific cause area like the arts, human services, or the environment.

Visit our fields of interest page to learn more →

Help grow the Women’s Fund of Greater Green Bay’s endowment to support local initiatives to empower women and inspire girls.

Learn more on the Women’s Fund website →

Support the education endeavors of local students with a scholarship fund.

Explore the benefits of a scholarship fund →

Information about opening a fund:

We accept a wide range of assets to fund your charitable giving strategy. To learn more about the types of gifts we can accept, click here to view accepted assets.

If you are age 70½ or older, you can make a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) up to $100,000 annually to a variety of non-advised funds at the Community Foundation, including our collective funds, tax-free. QCDs are not taxable income and can potentially satisfy some or all of your annual required minimum distribution (RMD).

Information provided is not intended to be tax advice. Donors should consult their tax advisors for more information.

Sharing our

expertise

Our team is always willing to present and share more information with your team. We can present on a range of giving topics, including: community needs and collaborative solutions, impact investing, trends in philanthropy, alternatives to private foundations, and more. If there’s a topic you are interested in learning more about, call us at 920-432-0800 or email Annie Dart.

Helpful resources:

We invest funds wisely, transparently, and prudently so they will be available for grantmaking now and for generations to come.

Learn more about our Investment Philosophy →

Our investment partners program enables donors to maintain existing investment relationships while benefiting from our community knowledge and philanthropic expertise.

Each participating investment firm is set up as a separate investment pool, and the management of these funds is governed by our investment policy statement.  Investment fees are paid by participants and the Community Foundation handles the administrative tasks.

We offer alternatives to private foundations with fewer costs, more privacy, and better tax deductions.

Compare the costs of donor advised funds and supporting organizations to private foundations →

Let’s 

connect

Have questions? Call us at 920-432-0800 or email AnnieMaribeth, or Jon.

Our Professional Advisors Committee

We partner with local attorneys, financial planners, and accountants to help us better serve charitable individuals, families, and businesses in our community.  Meet the members of our dedicated professional advisor committee who help advance the mission of the Community Foundation:

Craig T. Darling – CFP, CIMA, Director & Senior Investment Consultant, The GB Group at Baird

Bridget Erwin – Attorney, Hager, Dewick & Zuengler, S.C.

Kristy Maney – SVP, Private Banking Director, Nicolet National Bank

Ryan P. Laughlin – CPA, MST, JD, Partner, Hawkins Ash CPAs, LLP

Jim Ledvina – Attorney/Partner, Law Firm of Conway, Olejniczak & Jerry, S.C.

 Evan Lin – Attorney/Managing Member, Lin Law LLC

 Charity Olsen – Personal and Corporate Trust Manager, Associated Bank

 Jeffrey E. Puissant – CFP, CPWA, Director, Family Wealth Advisor, The GB Group at Baird

 Jason R. Wilke – MSPFP, CFP(R), CTFA – Senior Vice President, Director of Trust, Associated Bank

 Matt Zuengler – Attorney/ Partner, Hager, Dewick & Zuengler, S.C