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Guiding Your Giving
For more than 100 years, individuals, families and organizations have entrusted the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo with protecting and growing their charitable resources. There are a number of ways to fund your charitable giving at the Community Foundation. It is important to decide what works best for you and how we help, and our experts are ready to help you determine that.
Why Choose Us
Flexible and Customized Solutions
We understand that your giving plan is unique and personal. We work with you to understand your needs in order to provide you with customized and adaptable solutions.
Variety of Giving Options
Your vision for the impact you wish to see in our community and across the globe is important to us. We offer you a wide array of flexible giving options that will help achieve your charitable goals to support the organizations and issues you care about most in your name forever.
Proven Investment Performance
The size of the Community Foundation’s investment pool allows us to work with world-class investment managers with a goal of outperforming appropriate target market benchmarks over long periods of time. This investment strategy seeks to make the most of your generosity.
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- Sheldon Smith
- David and Cynthia Silverstein
- Jerry and Liz Canada
- The Gow School
- John and Elizabeth (Bette) Hulley
- African American Veterans Monument Endowment
- Scheff Family
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Corporation
- Pickburn Memorial Fund for Wildlife
- Dedrick Family
- Anne L. Bird
- Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME)
- Wilfred and Joan Larson
- George and Agnes Farris, Celia Lipton Farris & Victor W. Farris Foundation
- Hahn Family Foundation
- Bonita and Henry Durand
- Pinto Family
- George Rand
- The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation
- Edward and Mary Seaton Kleinhans
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