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 | Nov 5, 2019 | Dawn's Blogs, Family, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation
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 relative. Every generation wonders about the one that follows. Baby Boomers have been wondering about Generation X,...
by Dawn Franks | Oct 15, 2019 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Giving, Nonprofits
How many special event fundraisers have you attended – this year, last year, the last decade? I’ve been to so many that it would take all the fingers and toes of a roomful of friends to count them all. None stand out; they blend together in my...
