The Schuylkill Area Community Foundation has many options for donors:

Unrestricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds provide the Foundation with the greatest flexibility to meet the most pressing and ever changing needs of our community.

Designated Funds
Donors may create a fund in the Foundation to benefit a specific organization with the earnings from the fund distributed to it. In the event the specified organization ceases to exist, the Foundation is able to adjust its disbursements to insure the fund carries out its original purpose and intent.

Donor Advised Funds
Through Donor Advised Funds, a donor can have an active hand in his or her charitable giving by having the right to recommend annually to the Foundation which organizations should be supported by the Fund. The donor can specify, for example, that a certain school, church, agency, or other nonprofit be the recipient of the Fund's earnings. The recommendations of the donor must be approved by the Foundation. Since the Foundation administers the fund, donors are assured of its permanence well beyond their own ability to advise.

Field of Interest Funds
Field of Interest Funds provides donors the opportunity to support particular areas of interest that reach many organizations. The Foundation distributes earnings to the most appropriate programs within that area of interest (arts, culture, education, health & human services, etc.).

Scholarship Funds
Clubs, civic organizations, and individuals who have provided Scholarship Funds frequently choose to endow them for permanence. The Foundation offers efficient services to endow, manage, and award scholarships.