by Dawn Franks | Aug 7, 2013 | Donors, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation, Nonprofits
Note: Maxi Anderson, 18, is a recent graduate of All Saints Episcopal School and is an incoming freshman at the University of Oklahoma. She is part of the Generation Y/Millennial age group, which is loosely identified as being born after 1979. We asked Maxi to write...
by Dawn Franks | Jul 18, 2013 | Donors, Family, Giving, Next Generation
Steven Rogers was raised in Tyler, Texas, in a family that is serious, but quietly active in the giving community. Today he works as a business consultant and has been working with clients both in the U.S. and Mexico. When he was in his senior year at Wheaton College...
by Dawn Franks | Jul 18, 2013 | Donors, Family, Giving, Next Generation, Wealth
At a family reunion this past weekend, I learned my father used to pay his younger siblings a nickel for their chocolate pudding when he came home on military leave. He loved chocolate pudding, and I was raised on it – the homemade kind my mother cooled down in a...
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 Dawn Franks | Jul 3, 2013 | Donors, Giving, Nonprofits
Once when I worked at the East Texas Crisis Center, I received a call from a potential donor named Ray who had been referred to us by friends while playing golf. Ray was new in the area and wanted to visit with me and learn more about the Crisis Center. At that point...