Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Laguna Beach Community Foundation strengthens our community by encouraging philanthropy. We provide expertise and resources to assist local charities, connect donor passions with nonprofit needs, and work with local professional advisors in assisting their clients in giving now and beyond their lifetimes with a legacy gift.
To encourage philanthropy: The Professional Council, which includes philanthropically-minded attorneys, CPAs and wealth advisors, included approximately 30 participants. Our ambassadors, which include community leaders, includes approximately 20 supporters. The Community Foundation offers periodic workshops on charitable giving methods and educational sessions regarding The Community Foundation to these professionals, leaders and our donors. With the assistance of the professional council and the ambassadors, and outreach to donors, The Community Foundation encourages Laguna Beach residents to become involved in supporting The Community Foundation and enhancing philanthropy.We updated our strategic plan, communications plan, development plan, and reimagined our investment committee presentation to the community. We revised our Donor & Advisor guide, continued to make available our grants station database for local nonprofits. Our monthly speaker series has begun to fill our presentation room an remains free and open to the community, the monthly LBCF e-newsletter has approximately 1,000+ recipient. We continue to revise and update the LBCF website and the LBCF blog. The implementation of our online donor central portal to fund holders with 24/7 access to their account has been a success.
To establish and maintain charitable funds to promote philanthropy: In 2013, 13 new charitable funds were established to provide grant assistance and charitable distributions to exempt organizations. In 2014, 64 nonprofits were awarded $600,988 through grants from our charitable funds. In 2015, 71 nonprofits were awarded $619,914 through grants from our charitable funds. In 2016, 109 nonprofits were awarded $639,780 through grants from our charitable funds. In 2017, 79 nonprofits were awarded $5,022,479 through grants from our charitable funds. In 2018, 7 nonprofits were awarded $172,128 through grants from our charitable funds.
To provide assistance, coordination and guidance to local nonprofits, donors and potential donors and professionals working to enhance philanthropy with The Community Foundation. This included assistance provided through meetings, telephone calls, emails and workshops. We offered two free eight-week series workshops, "It's Your Money and "It's Your Estate" to local residents and donors of local nonprofits with attendance averaging 20 per session. We also offered two free workshops on "Making Your Nonprofit Newsworthy" attended by over 80 people per session from the nonprofit community. For our Professional Council, we offered the free workshop, "Learn How to Become a Leader in Charitable Tax Planning". In addition, we offered, in collaboration with Laguna Beach Seniors, Pacific Marine Mammal Center and Laguna Ocean Foundation, the five part series, "Board Chairs Academy", for current and future board leaders of nonprofits, with average attendance at 35 persons per session. Most workshops were offered at the local community center.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Tom Davis | Chairman of the Board | 10 | $0 |
| Greg Mech | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| James Fletcher | Trustee | 5 | $0 |
| Nicole Anderson | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
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