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Potential Giving Mistakes for 2021 and How to Overcome Them

Conventional wisdom dictates (backed up by marketing data from exercise and dieting companies) that January…

Lawson BaderJanuary 28, 2021

Donor Intent Donor-Advised Funds Strategic Giving Tax & Estate Planning

Someone Else’s Gift: The Need to Review Our Legacy Plans

How many chances do we have to leave a legacy? In an important sense, we…

Stephanie G. LipsMay 21, 2020

Donor Intent Philanthropy

Freedom to Discover: What Private Giving Made Possible

In the early 1800s, Thomas Jefferson unleashed the power of American philanthropy, though perhaps not…

Lawson BaderJanuary 17, 2020

Donor Intent Strategic Giving

I Want to Help You Plan Your Legacy for Liberty

Discussions of Planned Giving can sometimes sound as sterile as a sit-down with your tax…

Stephanie G. LipsSeptember 5, 2019

Safe for Conservative? DAFs and Donor Intent

Donor Intent Donor-Advised Funds Liberty Movement

Safe for Conservative Givers? DAFs and Donor Intent

Maggie knew she wanted a donor-advised fund to help manage her charitable giving. She also…

Peter LipsettMarch 5, 2019

Donor Intent Sunsetting

The Surdna Foundation: The Risks of Ill-Defined Donor Intent

What is the bulwark against future generations doing things with your money you’d despise?Integrity and…

Peter LipsettJanuary 25, 2019

Fighting O’Sullivan’s Law: Stopping The Drift Away from Our Principles

Donor Intent Liberty Movement Why DonorsTrust

Fighting O’Sullivan’s Law: Stopping The Drift from Our Principles

Will a conservative (or, as you might variously describe it, right-of-center, libertarian, or right-wing) organization…

Peter LipsettApril 13, 2018

Donor Intent Liberty Movement Strategic Giving

Measuring the Impact of Ideas Organizations

As we have previously discussed, donors give for many reasons (you can read about them…

Peter LipsettFebruary 26, 2018

Donor Intent Donor-Advised Funds Liberty Movement Strategic Giving Tax & Estate Planning

Year-End Giving Considerations

We have just flipped the calendar to December. That prompts many of us to ponder…

Peter LipsettDecember 2, 2017

Giving Horror Stories: Donor Intent Gone Wrong

Donor Intent Philanthropy Strategic Giving Sunsetting

Philanthropy Horror Stories: Donor Intent Gone Wrong

At DonorsTrust, one of the scariest things we see is when a donor fails to…

Peter LipsettOctober 30, 2017

Donor Intent

Potential Giving Mistakes for 2021 and How to Overcome Them

Someone Else’s Gift: The Need to Review Our Legacy Plans

Freedom to Discover: What Private Giving Made Possible

I Want to Help You Plan Your Legacy for Liberty

Safe for Conservative Givers? DAFs and Donor Intent

The Surdna Foundation: The Risks of Ill-Defined Donor Intent

Fighting O’Sullivan’s Law: Stopping The Drift from Our Principles

Measuring the Impact of Ideas Organizations

Year-End Giving Considerations

Philanthropy Horror Stories: Donor Intent Gone Wrong

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