“Setting up your own fund can get complicated. The Community Foundation made everything so much easier.”

- Cenetta Lee

“We knew that as we moved into retirement, we would
need to better plan for our charitable giving."
– Sue and Frank Guarino

“I opened my fund at the Community Foundation to establish a
 vehicle for charitable giving as part of my estate plan."
– Susan Warmack Fondren

“We want to encourage future generations to care about what happens to people who have less.”
- Betty Pyeatt

“Gifts to the endowment are an investment for future generations. The funds will grow beyond our lifetimes and a portion goes toward the Community Partnership Fund to make grants to worthy organizations that people with advised funds may not know about.”
- Wayne Pyeatt

“We concentrate our efforts in specific areas where we can commit ourselves to changing the current situation.”
- Frank Smith

“When I told my son – he’s my financial advisor – about my financial desires, he said there was only one place I should put my money to make charitable donations -- the Community Foundation.”
- Ruth Holmes Mims

“We’re young, and we hope over time to support organizations in Memphis that have a great effect on the community. This is a way for us to help build up our city."
- Hunter Witherington

“When we volunteer, we see things organizations need, like books or computers. When we make a grant, we see our funds in action. It makes you feel good about giving.”
- Hutchison student Julia Taylor

“You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.”
- Jacob Goldsmith, Sylvia Goldsmith Marks’ grandfather

“The Community Foundation is a very, very efficient way to manage your charitable giving. It just makes so much sense.”
- Jim Vining

"We believe in everything the Community Foundation is doing."
- Lee Wakeman