Tustin Community Foundation

The League of California Community Foundations offers this simple definition: A community foundation is a publicly supported philanthropic institution governed by a board of private citizens chosen to be representative of the public interest and for their knowledge of the community. It administers individual funds contributed or bequeathed to it by individuals, other agencies, governments, corpora

tions and other sources. Who does a Community Foundation Serve? Community foundations uniquely serve three publics: donors, the nonprofit sector and the community as a whole. Individual community foundations may focus to some extent on one of these publics over the other two (leading to considerable diversity in the field) but by structure and by regulation the community foundation must always serve all three. League of California Community Foundations
Guiding Principles of TCF
Strategic leveraging of public and private resources
Financial transparency and accountability of outcome measurements
Creation of a strategic approach to meeting critical community needs
Sustainability of goals through multi-year funding and the leveraging of in-kind gifts
Creation of relationships that encourage partnerships between nonprofit organizations and local businesses and corporations
Promotion of volunteerism to increase the capacity of nonprofit partners
Equity in the geographic distribution of resources
Prioritization of funding to organizations that strategically focuses on positive change and improvement The Tustin Community Foundation directs charitable funds to the real and immediate needs and interests of our Tustin community and connects local volunteers to the causes they care about.