by Dawn Franks | Feb 19, 2020 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Giving, Nonprofits
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? The big question is how do you help them change the world? Can you expand your services? A state agency asked the local...
by Dawn Franks | Feb 5, 2020 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation
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 words and making suggestions. I don’t mean how a drone tracks you down and finds your address to deliver the Amazon package to your front...
by Dawn Franks | Jan 20, 2020 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Giving, Next Generation, Wealth
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 mind when I saw the attached picture. It’s a collection of memories that have not faded with time and are relevant to the work I do...
by Dawn Franks | Jan 8, 2020 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Family, Giving, Next Generation
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 family foundation that I had worked with for several years. We had been preparing for a meeting two weeks away. The voice I...
by Dawn Franks | Dec 18, 2019 | About Your Philanthropy, Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Nonprofits, Philanthropy in Action
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 a puzzle. We speak in riddles and leave breadcrumb trails of paradox. Nonprofit staff spends countless hours...
by Dawn Franks | Nov 20, 2019 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Nonprofits
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 start?” That was the opening paragraph of a very short piece I contributed to my alma mater for A Patriot’s Guide to...
