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Measuring the Success of Your Family
For 2023, consider making some adjustments for your family. I often say that one of the simple ways to measure the success…
Start with Your Family Stories
Building great family culture starts with stories. Brad Grey of Walking the Text teaches a simple truth: in Jewish families, from birth…
Defining a Life Well Lived—Everyday Legacy
A study on leaving a legacy found most people evaluate a life well lived in terms of loving relationships and social impact…
Solve Poverty? First Understand the Poor
How well do nonprofits understand the poor they’re trying to help? And how well do they preserve dignity while offering that help?…
The World’s Richest People and A Little Wisdom on Wealth
Money’s a funny thing. Most people spend their lives wishing they had it as they toil away at their jobs. We worry…
A Brief History of Nonprofit Fundraising in the U.S.
In the United States, we accept the current state of the nonprofit fundraising world—lots of nonprofit organizations and lots of fundraising requests….
How to Teach Generosity to Your Children
Every parent is in the business of transferring values to their children, whether they’ve thought a lot about it or not. Children…
5 Trends to Watch in Family Foundations
For many in the philanthropy world, private family foundations are an assumed part of life. But they didn’t always occupy such a…
Charitable Giving on the Way Down in 2019?
Philanthropy experts predicted that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 would cause a big drop in charitable giving. The Indiana…
The Legacy of Faithfully Doing the Next Thing
Frank will tell you that he never had a strategic plan. He just always did what God put in front of him….
Wealth Transfer Rises to $68 Trillion!
The U.S. wealth transfer number has gone up. As recently as early fall of 2018, the going number for the Great Wealth…