On behalf of the Board of Trustees and staff of The Catholic Foundation, I want to reassure our donors, grant recipients and partners that The Catholic Foundation is here for you during this unprecedented time.

Non-profits have unique challenges with IT when compared to for-profit companies guests heard during our first Catholic Community Network of the year. Special thanks to our guest panel made up of Wade Yeaman, President and CEO of Fluid IT Services, Heather Flabiano, Ph.D., Vice President-Finance and Operations at The Dallas Foundation and Carol McDonald, CPA, Chief Financial Officer at The Catholic Foundation.

We all feel stress from things like traffic, health, deadlines, family obligations and business goals. Financial and estate planning presents yet another stressful challenge, particularly for clients who wish to make a charitable gift but are reluctant to relinquish control of their assets during life. Luckily, testamentary charitable gifts can be a virtually stress-free solution for some clients.

Enjoy the views from our 2020 Catholic Foundation Award Dinner that celebrated the best in Catholic philanthropy as we honored Joe Dingman as the recipient of the 38th annual Catholic Foundation Award.

We want to bring your attention to operational changes to our Donor Advised Fund (DAF) grant process. A notice issued by the Internal Revenue Service affects two types of grants from a DAF.

The Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees of The Catholic Foundation reviewed our asset allocations and performance of the underlying investment managers at the November 2019 committee meeting. It was decided to transfer the domestic equity assets from Vanguard Total Stock Market Index to Christian Brothers Investment Services Core Equity Index.

We're talking tech, focused on small and medium-sized nonprofits, at our next Catholic Community Network open to all non-profits, clergy and staff at churches, plus administrators and staff at local schools on Wednesday, March 4 in our Dallas office.

More than 1,000 guests gathered to honor affordable housing advocate Joe Dingman at The Catholic Foundation’s 38th Annual Award Dinner at the Hilton Anatole on Feb. 1. The annual dinner recognized the co-founder and treasurer of the Catholic Housing Initiative for his significant impact in the greater Dallas area affordable housing landscape over the past several decades.

“THE CONVERSATION: A Catholic Perspective on End-of-Life Issues” on Saturday, March 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Rita Catholic Community in the Parish Commons room is now sold out!

Lois S. Cartwright, Ana Esteve Yoder and Thomas G. Yoxall have joined The Catholic Foundation Board of Trustees and will serve a three-year term through 2022.