Giving Tuesday: The Catch-22 of Philanthropy

Giving Tuesday: The Catch-22 of Philanthropy Blog Post

Every year I dread the Tuesday after Thanksgiving – the day now known as Giving Tuesday. It’s not that I don’t want to support deserving organizations. Rather, it’s that my…

Indistractable in Giving

Indistractable in Giving: Three Tips for Focus Blog Post

How’s your focus? Is it a challenge to single-task? There’s no shame in recognizing it. We’re all easily distracted. That’s why so many articles start with crazy-short sentences like this!…

DonorsTrust Clients Speak On Why They Use Us

DonorsTrust Clients Speak On Why They Use Us Blog Post

DonorsTrust is one of more than 1,000 donor-advised fund providers across the country. We represent a segment of those providers known as “mission-driven” funds, but there are many other types…

A Philanthropist's Advice to Young Givers

A Philanthropist’s Advice to Young Givers Blog Post

How do you get started with charitable giving? No matter how much you give away, we all want our charitable dollars to mean something. Young givers place a premium on…

Starting Over with A Donor-Advised Fund

Starting Over with a Donor-Advised Fund Blog Post

An accurate, albeit overused phrase is “to wipe the slate clean”. While perhaps outdated in its technology (what 25-year-old has ever experienced a classroom ‘slate’?), the reference to starting over…

Battling Regulation Takes Education and Action

Battling Regulation Takes Education and Action Blog Post

As a continuation of our Expert Giving series, we asked Adam Brandon, the President of FreedomWorks, to frame the current landscape around government regulation and to share his advice on how…