Your Connection to Impactful Giving

At the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, we help pave a path for members of our community to be philanthropic. The generosity of our donors is ongoing and impactful, and directed to organizations whose financials have been vetted. Why? Because we’ve laid the groundwork for better giving. The Community Foundation makes giving easy, beneficial, fulfilling and more personal. We offer a wide variety of tax-wise giving options that help donors give the most, get the most and do the most good throughout our community.

David Gorham is one longtime donor who appreciates the impact that the Community Foundation has helped him make with his charitable gifts.

A California native, David is celebrating his 56th year on the faculty of Casady School. In 2005, he established an advised fund at the Community Foundation that allows him to support several charitable organizations close to his heart, like the cerebral palsy center where his brother lived for more than 50 years, or Casady School, where David discovered his love of teaching.

" Having a single place through which I can donate to so many different organizations makes it very easy,” said David. “Donating appreciated stock is done so easily from my brokerage firms, and then distributions are made with the click of a mouse. It’s also nice to know that when I’m gone, I have given instructions on how to distribute my charitable funds.”

Though he learned the importance of giving back from his parents, David says the Community Foundation has helped him give back in a way that best fits his needs. It’s giving in a way that is easy for him, financially beneficial, meaningful, and most of all, impactful for the community.