The ECF legacy giving program operates much like a community foundation. Community foundations are:
- tax exempt, non-profit, philanthropic organizations with the long term goal of building permanent funds for the broad-based public benefit of the residents in a given area.
- designed to bring together small and large contributions into a grant making facility dedicated to the social improvement of a given place.
- a flexible, efficient, and tax-effective way for donors to ensure their charitable giving achieves the greatest possible impact.
Donors from across the Diocese can contribute their funds to ECF (either in life or upon their passing). When the gift matures, ECF can facilitate a disbursement(s) back to the donor’s parish and Diocese of Atlanta ministries based on the donor’s wishes.