by Fred Smith | Sep 9, 2013 | Guest Blogs
Like most of the people reading this, I have more than enough meetings. So, when someone calls and says they want to get together, I have learned to ask a few questions ahead of time. I should have asked more questions about my meeting this week with Steve Smith. I...
by Fred Smith | Aug 7, 2013 | About Your Philanthropy, Family, Guest Blogs, Next Generation, Wealth
My family moved to Tyler in 1984, and I almost immediately began teaching a Bible study that had been going for 20 years. The couples had begun as young parents and kept meeting weekly through all the stages of raising children and seeing them go off – and then...
by Fred Smith | Jul 18, 2013 | Family, Giving, Guest Blogs
When my father died I was named the executor of the estate. While I had read through some articles on the subject, I was not prepared for the actual work required of me for the next full year. I could not have imagined the complexity involved and the maddening...
by Fred Smith | Jul 3, 2013 | Giving, Guest Blogs, Wealth
Kyle Penney at the East Texas Communities Foundation has created an interesting and insightful study of the transfer of wealth that is going on in East Texas and will last for at least the next 50 years. While the total transfer in the United States is in the...
by Fred Smith | Jun 5, 2013 | About Your Philanthropy, Guest Blogs
In 1952 a minister, Sam Shoemaker, told Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania city leaders that “one day Pittsburgh will be more famous for God than steel.” That was quite a statement to make at the time. Pittsburgh was the steel capital of the world. It wasn’t a boast or...
