by Dawn Franks | Oct 30, 2013 | Family, Giving, Next Generation
I heard a great story last week. A father told me that his young daughter had asked if she could adopt a child in another country and his reply was something like, “Oh honey, the organizations that say they do that are just scams, and the money doesn’t really feed the...
by Dawn Franks | Sep 9, 2013 | Family, Giving
That was the question she asked me in a casual conversation recently. It started as the common “how are things going?” conversation. She asked about our organization’s name change again, “Your something?” I reminded her it was “Your...
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...
