Foundation News

Welcome to the Grace Lutheran Church Foundation newsletters.
Inside the newsletters you will find articles about the work of the Foundation,
to help with estate planning, and other useful information.

Newsletters are 2 pages and are available to view as a webpage and to download as a PDF file.

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2003
2004
2005

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024

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2022

March 2022  webpage  PDF
Why the Foundation Doesn't
Accept Some Donations
Foundation Funds

August 2022  webpage  PDF
10 Steps to Help Surviving
Loved Ones

December 2022  webpage  PDF
Supporting Grace and
Making the Most of Your Gift and
Pass On Your Values
Share the "Why" with the "What"

2023

March 2023  webpage  PDF
An Inter-faith Effort for Hope
and Healing

June 2023  webpage  PDF
Why Does Grace Lutheran Church Have a Foundation?
and Why Does the Board Only Respond to Requests for Funds?

2024

January 2024  webpage  PDF
YOUR Foundation at Work
in 2023
Church - Community - State -
World

2018

March 2018  webpage  PDF
Thank You - Who Knows How
the World Will be Changed?

June 2018  webpage  PDF
Donor Advised Funds:
Possible Tax Benefits
and
Tidbits on the New Tax Law
and Donations

October 2018  webpage  PDF
Why I Am a Foundation Director

December 2018  webpage  PDF
Grace-Filled Buckets and
Why I Am a Foundation Director

2019

March 2019  webpage  PDF
Are You Ready?

July 2019  webpage  PDF
The Loaves and the Fishes
All Over Again! and
Why I Am a Foundation Director

November 2019  webpage  PDF
What is the Purpose of the
Foundation? and
Some Foundation Dollars
Available for Grants or Matching
Funds

2020

January 2020  webpage  PDF
"Let Us Give Thanks"
by Gerhard Frost

April 2020  webpage  PDF
Handwashing and Legacies and
Trusts and Waterfalls

June 2020  webpage  PDF
Imagining Ministry Changes and Stretching and
Foundation Dollars at Work

September 2020  webpage  PDF
Carpé Diem, as They Say and
Thank You, Pastor Wendell

December 2020  webpage  PDF
To Plant an Apple Tree

2021

March 2021  webpage  PDF
How Firm a Foundation

July 2021  webpage  PDF
What Is a Legacy? and
Continuing the Legacy

November 2021  webpage  PDF
All Saints Day A Day of
Commemoration and
Saints Remembered - 2011-2020

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2014

March 2014  webpage  PDF
Why Write a Will? and
The ABCs of a Good Will

June 2014 webpage  PDF
Different Gift Opportunities

September 2014  webpage  PDF
Announcing The William and
Lorraine Benson Music Fund

December 2014  webpage  PDF
Amazing Grace, Reaching
Out in Love

2015

March 2015  webpage  PDF
The Future and the Foundation
and
Future Planning to Support
Grace - on a Personal Level

June 2015  webpage  PDF
Did you ever let a little publicity
or fear of a full mail box keep
you from giving? and
Tips to Reduce Unsolicited Mail

September 2015  webpage  PDF
The Warren Buffet Effect and
What Ministries Do You Love?

December 2015  webpage  PDF
Planning Ahead: A Dozen Things
to Consider about Your Estate

2016

April 2016  webpage  PDF
CAST Funds Renamed the
Storvick Funds and
Give a Gift - Endowed or Not

July 2016  webpage  PDF
Why Sesame Street is Not
Enough

September 2016  webpage  PDF
"Giving It Forward"

December 2016  webpage  PDF
Outside Requests and "Thivent
Choice" Dollars and
End of Year Planning

2017

March 2017  webpage  PDF
Support for Grace Lutheran
Church's 75th Anniversary

June 2017  webpage  PDF
Beneficiary Designations as
Gift Opportunities

September 2017  webpage  PDF
An Awesome Stewardship
Responsibility!

December 2017  webpage  PDF
A Foundation of the Church,
by the Church, for the Church

2010

March 2010 (webpage)
The Foundation: What it Does.
How You Help, and
What you Can - and Can't -
Give Us

June 2010 (webpage)
End of Life Series:
Legacy Planning, Medical
Directives, Funerals and
Memorial Services

September 2010 (webpage)
Unprepared Presidents
Dying without a Will, and
Calmly Doing Your Will, and
Doing your Will - Easy as ABC

December 2010 (webpage)
Elections, Campaign Promises
and Our Foundation

2011

March 2011 (webpage)
Humble Heroes of Grace:
Carl and Alice Ronnenkamp

June 2011 (webpage)
What to Do After a Loved One Dies
with PDF checklist.

September 2011 (webpage)
Turning a Bad Asset into a Good Asset

December 2011 (webpage)
"Leaving a Legacy" Workshop Report

2012

March 2012 (webpage)
What Does Your Faith Inspire? and
Foundation Helps Youth:
Mission Investment Fund of the ELCA

June 2012 (webpage)
"All That We Have is Thine Alone..."
and Inspired Giving

September 2012 (webpage)
The Tale of a Frustrated Executor

December 2012 (webpage)
Are You Prepared in Case Something Happens to You Unexpectedly? and
Advance Directives:
Things You Should Know

2013

April 2013 webpage  PDF
Oak Trees and Future Funding

June 2013 webpage  PDF
What Did You Have in Mind?
Gifts from Estates, and
Oak Trees and Future Funding

September 2013  webpage  PDF
Your Foundation: Endowed Funds
and I don't have an estate, do I?
and We Give Thee but Thine Own

December 2013  webpage  PDF
Announcing The Schultz Family
Youth Fund
and Your Foundation:
Non-Endowed Funds

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2006

February 2006 (webpage)
Generosity's Continued Benefits

May 2006 (webpage)
We're Giving the Church
Our Kids' Inheritance

August 2006 (webpage)
Your Footprints

November 2006 (webpage)
Give the Growth

2007

February 2007 (webpage)
Creating and Nuturing
the Grace Foundation

May 2007 (webpage)
Why Endowments Work

August 2007 (webpage)
Two-Step Giving

November 2007 (webpage)
ELCA Endowment Fund Pooled Trust to Manage Grace Foundation Funds

2008

March 2008 (webpage)
Answers to Some Questions about
the Foundation

June 2008 (webpage)
Comings and Goings

September 2008 (webpage)
What You Can't Give Us

December 2008 (webpage)
More Than One Place at a Time

2009

April 2009 (webpage)
Funding a Foundation
Is that Goofy or What?

June 2009 (webpage)
What's in a Name?
A Rose by Any Other Name
Would Smell as Sweet
and Becoming a Willing Witness

September 2009 (webpage)
Foundation Update, and
Many Ways to Make a Gift

December 2009 (webpage)
Saying "Thanks" with our Gifts

2002
August 2002 (webpage)
How to Help Your Lawyer,
and Yourself

November 2002 (webpage)
Funds Managed by the Foundation

2003

February 2003 (webpage)
Your Donations at Work

May 2003 (webpage)
Five Ways a Gift Annuity
Can Benefit You

August 2003 (webpage)
We Cannot Take it With Us
and If We Had Only Known

November 2003 (webpage)
You can Give a Gift Annuity

2004

February 2004 (webpage)
(No article)

May 2004 (webpage)
Stock Quiz

August 2004 (webpage)
Give your House and Live In It
(Life Estate Reserved Agreement)

November 2004 (webpage)
(No article)

2005

February 2005 (webpage)
How to Make a Good Gift Better

May 2005 (webpage)
Farewell... ...and Welcome

August 2005 (webpage)
(No article)

November 2005 (webpage)
Have you Reviewed Your Will
Lately?

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