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Confirmed in Compliance with National Standards
Confirmed in Compliance with National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations
 
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Transfer of Stock

When CFNIL receives stock gifts of any kind, the shares must first be transferred into an CFNIL brokerage account. CFNIL then liquidates the shares as soon as allowable and the proceeds are invested according to our investment policy. Read our investment policy.

CFNIL has brokerage accounts at the following institutions.

A G Edwards
American Century Investors
Dain Rauscher
First Union Securities
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

Robert W. Baird & Co.
Salomon Smith Barney
TD Waterhouse
T. Rowe Price


If your shares are also held at one of these institutions, simply notify your broker and CFNIL that you would like to gift X amount of shares of ABC Company stock or mutual fund to the Community Foundation. It is very important to let the broker know that CFNIL has an account at their institution for transfer of securities. Please use the following sample letter to do this. Once we have received notice of your gift, CFNIL will send you a gift letter acknowledging the mean value of your gift and confirming the fund that it will go into. CFNIL will send you a second letter upon receipt of the net sale proceeds, informing you of the exact amount that was deposited into your chosen fund.

Download Sample Letter


If your stock is not held in an account at one of these institutions, please notify your broker and CFNIL that you would like to gift X amount of shares of ABC Company stock to the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois. Please use the following sample letter to do this.

Download Sample Letter