This toolkit, developed by Community Foundations of Canada, provides a full range of information and tools to help you in your work with clients, and to learn more about community foundations.

Advisors

HCF as an Alternative

Is your client thinking about starting a private foundation?

Or, has your client grown weary of the obligations of managing a private foundation?

In each of these cases, Hamilton Community Foundation can assist you and your client in meeting their goals in a timely, efficient and effective manner. Starting up a private foundation can be a time consuming and costly process. Establishing a fund at Hamilton Community Foundation is quick, easy and inexpensive.

Working with Hamilton Community Foundation, the principals are able to maintain the degree of involvement that makes sense for them. One advisor noted that HCF "takes on the administrative burden, leaving the 'fun' of selecting the grantees to the donor/principal." View our chart that sets out a summary of those factors that donors and their advisors have told us are important considerations in their decision about establishing a private foundation or working with Hamilton Community Foundation.