🎁 Wrap up 2024 with a lasting impact! 🎁 There’s still time to open a donor-advised fund before the year ends. Create a fund at CFT with a wire transfer/stock gift, check, or credit card contribution to create a legacy of giving while maximizing tax benefits. Visit CFTexas.org/GivingGuide to get started today or contact our team at Giving@CFTexas.org
Communities Foundation of Texas
Non-profit Organizations
Dallas, TX 13,617 followers
Where giving thrives.
About us
Communities Foundation of Texas has been a partner with donors for raising the quality of life in our community for more than 60 years. CFT provides effective ways to make meaningful charitable contributions while realizing significant tax advantages. CFT handles the investment of the gift, listens to the donor's priorities and manages charitable grants to worthwhile causes. The value of a gift can be granted out completely in a short period of time or it can be nurtured to provide a long legacy of charitable support. The foundation's experience in the nonprofit community and with donors results in a unique relationship with powerful benefits. A community foundation, as the name implies, is a public charity created as a vehicle for charitable giving. The defining characteristic of a community foundation is that it represents the donors' charitable interests and adds value through its wealth of community knowledge, along with the leadership of its board of trustees and the services of a professional staff.
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External link for Communities Foundation of Texas
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Dallas, TX
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1953
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5500 Caruth Haven Ln
Dallas, TX 75225, US
Employees at Communities Foundation of Texas
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Jose (Pepe) Guevara
Board Member, Agribusiness CEO, Private Equity General Partner, Sustainability Expert, Latino.
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Amir Tabei
Transformative C-level Executive | CIO & CTO | Digital Transformation | AI & Automation Leader
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Rebecca S. Babin
Full-stack Marketing Leader | Head of Marketing | B2C, E-commerce, Non-Profit
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David Patterson
Updates
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CFT has partnered with the Cotton Bowl Foundation since 2016 to support philanthropic community investments benefiting youth. We’re excited to share that the 2024-25 Cotton Bowl Foundation grants, totaling $425,000, will support nine North Texas organizations! Read more at: https://lnkd.in/ght5g6bJ Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, T.R. Hoover CDC, All Stars Project, Inc., Heart House, METRO SPORTS FIELDHOUSE, Teen Life, Travel & Sports Legacy Foundation (TSLF), Wesley-Rankin Community Center
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Join us in welcoming Amir Tabei, CFT's new chief information officer! Amir brings a wealth of experience with a 25+ year career in technology leadership at the Dallas Museum of Art, Susan G. Komen, TechBridge, Inc, Aidmatrix, and more. While CIO at the Dallas Museum of Art, he earned the Tech Titans Emerging Innovation Award for his groundbreaking work. Amir succeeds Roger Santone, who is retiring from CFT at the end of December after a 40+ year career in technology. Read more about Amir on our blog at: https://lnkd.in/gesrZiHw Photo by: Kim Leeson
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Champions of Caring: For fifth-generation Texan sisters Averille Dawson, Fallon Vaughn, and Kathryn Cook, the Jane and Bill Browning Family Fund, a donor-advised fund at CFT, is a living legacy of their parents’ compassion and commitment to helping others. “Our mom wanted us to continue to experience the joy of coming together as a family to give back,” said Averille. Recently, we shared with the sisters a pressing need that was aligned with one of their funding priorities. Mazie's Mission, a local nonprofit veterinary clinic that provides lifesaving care to abused and neglected animals, faced an unexpected funding gap, and the Browning sisters stepped up to help. Read about the sisters’ inspiring impact and learn more about Mazie’s Mission at: https://lnkd.in/gsWKNaUV. Donate to Mazie’s Mission at: https://lnkd.in/gg-cPzKR
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Congratulations to CFT fundholders Shannah Hayley, CPM and Kelly Hayley for finishing their 50th marathon in 50 states! The Plano couple has run over 170 marathons and half marathons, and about 5 years ago, set a goal to run in all 50 states before their 55th birthdays. They also lead their own running club, Interval Run Club Dallas. We're inspired by their passion for running and community. We're grateful to be their partner as they show their generosity and care for nonprofits through their donor-advised fund at CFT. Read about this incredible feat that was featured as front page news in The Dallas Morning News: https://lnkd.in/g36x4TN4
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Congratulations to Texas Instruments on 60 years of making a difference! Educate Texas and Communities Foundation of Texas are honored to collaborate with the TI Foundation to advance STEM education and opportunities for Texas students, and are grateful for Andy Smith's service on our Board of Trustees.
We’re celebrating 60 years of building stronger communities with the TI Foundation. 🎉 💡 Did you know? 👉The TI Foundation is our company’s nonprofit organization, founded in 1964. 👉It invests in education, human services, racial equity and the arts with the goal of improving the quality of life in our hometowns. 👉 It also supports the generosity of our employees by matching their gifts of time and dollars. Here’s to many more years of impact to come!
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CFT Board Trustee and expert financial advisor Debra Brennan Tagg, CFP® has been featured in Advisorpedia's "How Advisors Can Help Families Pass Down Values Alongside Wealth." From the article: “For clients that want a philanthropic advisor, Tagg works with Communities Foundation of Texas. A Donor Advised Fund (DAF) is a common charitable giving vehicle. 'For clients without a clear philanthropic mission who are looking to make charitable donations but are in a year-end time crunch, we encourage them to contribute to a DAF so they can secure the tax deduction now but be intentional about where the money goes in 2025. DAFs also provide a learning experience for future generations – helping them to understand that designating funds to give away can be as important in some families as accumulating funds for education, retirement, or other purposes,' explains Tagg." Read more at: https://lnkd.in/eNPU3hrV Learn about the benefits of donor-advised funds at CFT: cftexas.org/givepurpose BFS Advisory Group
The Great Wealth Transfer: Beyond Dollars and Cents
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Join us in celebrating the impact of our chief information officer, Roger Santone who is retiring at the end of December after a 40+ year career in technology. We're grateful for all you've done for our community and for CFT, Roger Santone and wish you all the best in your next chapter! #CFTeam Katherine (Katie) Wetta Octavio Morales Arturo D'Brot Charles Sharif
After 42 years in Technology, I have made the decision to retire at the end of this year. I have been extremely fortunate to have been part of some of the best companies in the world, traveled to 32 countries, and worked with thousands of amazing people. I am extremely grateful to the leaders who mentored me and gave me a chance to make a difference and I am equally grateful to those that allowed me to lead them. I also want to thank the many co-workers that became good friends over the years not only here in North America, but also in EMEA, LATAM, and APAC. There are so many people that I wanted to thank personally, but the list became too long. You know who you are and I will always be grateful to you.
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🎁 Last-minute gift ideas that matter 🎁 Give a gift that spreads joy and makes a difference. Honor a loved one by supporting a local nonprofit in their name! Explore other meaningful ways to give via CFT's Giving Guide at: CFTexas.org/GivingGuide
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Champions of Student Success: Vijay Ram and Sureka Gattu, Ph.D. created the V&S Legacy Fund, a donor-advised fund, at CFT to support their shared passion of education. As they were planning their wedding, they asked their friends and family to contribute to their philanthropy by making a gift to the fund in lieu of wedding gifts. “We are working to grow our fund into a scholarship fund. This is our way of starting our legacy now, to pass on what we inherited from our parents,” said Vijay, who is an alumnus of CFT’s Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy program. Read about the newlyweds’ inspiring impact at: https://lnkd.in/eeBmYtTE Donate to the fund at: https://lnkd.in/eE9WjFWF
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