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Six questions to answer that ensure your legacy lives beyond you

The Nobel Story: A riddle of legacy Each October, the Nobel Prize Committee announces laureates in peace, literature, science, and economics. The names are secret

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Slow down to plan ahead.

In a hurry to get home, I started calculating how many school zones I’d have to slow down for. Two zones. Maybe three extra minutes.

Take a Risk to Be Part of Something Great

How do nonprofit organizations you support get better at what they are doing? How do they learn their way into new, better, or improved services?

How You Can Be Their Best Role Model

The question is, who is watching and listening to you? No, I don’t mean in the way that Alexa or Google Assistant is tracking your

How Your Role Models Make You a Greater Philanthropist

The email was short and said, “If you don’t have this, I wanted to send it to you.” Thirty-plus years of memories raced through my

How to Prepare for Life’s Untimely Events

While sitting at a stoplight, I answered a phone call expecting one voice but hearing another. The voice I expected was the founder of a

How to Forge Stronger Relationships with Your Favorite Nonprofits

The world of private philanthropy is often an enigma in the eyes of nonprofit leaders. We create confusion and frustration for nonprofit organizations. We are

Philanthropy Made Easy… After 40 Years of Lessons Learned!

It started this way, “The questions that loom large as you navigate a college education are: What’s next? What career, what advanced degrees, where to

How Family Giving Adds Joy to the Holidays

Will the next generation give as much as their grandparents and parents? And which generation is “the next generation”? Well, of course, the answer is