The Lutheran Community Foundation

Balancing Acts - 2009 LCF Annual Report

Keeping our balance would be so much easier if the world would just stop changing. But it’s the constant challenges that life keeps tossing our way that lead us to develop the skills that make balance possible.
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Conference Call on Investments - May 3

Thank you to everyone who joined us May 3, 2010 for a conversation with our investment advisor, Cambridge Associates. You may listen to a recording of the call to hear about the current economy, how it affects the LCF investments, and what we might expect from future returns.
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Roth IRA Conversion and Charitable Giving

Are you considering converting your traditional IRA to a Roth IRA? Did you know that you may be able to lessen the tax impact through charitable giving? We can assist you!
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Planting Trees for Donors

The Foundation has made a contribution to the Arbor Day Foundation to have 600 trees planted in honor of donors who will be celebrating the 5th, 10th or 15th year anniversary of their charitable fund in 2010.
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The Foundation's Socially Responsible Investing

In 2008, the Foundation formalized its commitment to mission investing as a way to affect transformational change not only through grants from its charitable funds, but through its investment of gift assets.  It's an approach that aligns investments with mission while maintaining the long-term targeted financial returns of the Foundation.
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High School Seniors Engage in Philanthropy

The senior class of Concordia Academy in Roseville, Minnesota received a lesson in philanthropy this spring when their class asked to give away $10,000, as part of "Nurturing Future Philanthropists," a pilot project of the Lutheran Community Foundation.
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Centered - 2008 Annual Report

We are centered in our work as Lutherans.  It starts with grace.  It involves vocation.  It requires working in the world. Together, we are catalysts for change that's grounded in our Lutheran values.
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Recording of Conference Call on Investments

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our conversation with our investment advisor, Cambridge Associates.  An audio recording of the conversation is also available for those who would like to listen now.
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