Congratulations to The Dayton Foundation!

The Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations has bestowed its Ohio Nonprofit Excellence Award on the Dayton Foundation in recognition of the latter's Legacy Partnership Program.
The award honors the creativity, execution, achievement, and overall excellence of a specific project or program by an Ohio nonprofit. Since its inception in 2002, the Dayton Foundation's Legacy Partnership Program has identified more than six hundred new deferred gifts with a combined value of more than $24 million earmarked for the endowment funds of local charities.
The program is designed to assist Greater Miami Valley nonprofits in starting or invigorating an endowment program as a way of ensuring the long-term stability of services and programs in the area. Currently, forty-six area nonprofits participate in the program, which has been replicated by two other community foundations, one in California and another in Alberta, Canada.
"We're very proud to receive this prestigious award and to help fill the legacy fundraising gap for local not-for-profit organizations," said foundation president Michael M. Parks. "The net result is that more money will be going to these organizations for the benefit of our community."