Similarly, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles operates a Family Foundation Center which provides funders of all types--including DAF holders--with access to resources and networking opportunities that help to foster intergenerational philanthropy and educate about particular fields of interest.
The Chicago Community Trust, for example, invites all of its DAF holders to attend seminars where they can learn from leaders in a particular field and network with peer funders.
Unlike other DAF options, national organizations are issue and geography agnostic--a fact which can serve as both a benefit and a deterrent, depending on donors' appetites for targeted philanthropic advice.
In fact, it was such institutions that originally pioneered the DAF as an alternative to the relative inefficiency of checkbook giving or the more complicated process of establishing a private foundation.