Foundational benefits of charitable giving is a familiar topic in our office, especially when we're talking about estate planning. We are going a bit more in-depth wit this lunch. We are expanding our conversations by providing resources like the Albuquerque Community Foundation. Their role is to facilitate charitable giving locally, and we are looking forward to working with them more in the coming years. We want to give you options for charitable giving, and maybe you don't know what community foundations can do. Or maybe you don't know how community foundations support and measure progress toward community goals.

As we think about our lives, we often consider donating to places we consider "home." We can get nostalgic. We can also feel sadness at how things have changed or wish for times that felt easier or simpler.  These feelings of "home," whether it is a neighborhood, a church, a university or a group of people with similar interests, the mountains or the ocean, it is worth honoring. These feelings of home and care are the foundation for your charitable giving plans. To help you honor the places and communities you love, we want you to know how and to feel confident in sharing your wealth in ways that support your quality of life and your dreams.

If you want to learn more about how the community foundation helps us connect to places and people we love, please join us for lunch.  It will be an open conversation about supporting communities, places and people who changed us. It will be about mechanisms for giving that are supportive to your overall estate plans.

It will reinforce how giving makes us happy.