Request for Proposals: Education Grants for Teachers 2025
Are you a teacher with an innovative idea for a classroom project? The Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Excellence in Education grant applications are now open.
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Depot Porch Party 2025
What a summer celebration! Check out our photo gallery from our Porch Party this summer.
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Community Foundation awards more than $95,000 in grants
The Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation has announced its latest round of Community Fund grants, totaling more than $95,000 in support for local nonprofits and causes throughout our area.
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Local giving: Our community nonprofits need us
Our community needs us. Whatever your passion is – from causes that support youths to parks to social services – local charitable giving can be particularly meaningful right now.
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One Big Beautiful Bill: 3 insights for philanthropy
Are you wondering how the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill will affect your clients? Here are three insights - on the standard deduction, charitable deductions for non-itemizers and the estate tax exemption.
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Strategic giving options for clients beyond the Qualified Charitable Distribution
Naming a fund at the Community Foundation as a beneficiary of an IRA can be a powerful planning tool – allowing charitable intent to continue after death, reducing estate taxes and avoiding income tax that would otherwise be owed by heirs.
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