by Dawn Franks | Dec 5, 2013 | Family, Next Generation
I just measured the stack of letters from various charities seeking funding that has arrived in the last few weeks, and it’s two inches tall. That’s enough to create a Scrooge moment if there ever was one, but if your style is to tackle the stack and get it done as...
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 26, 2013 | Family, Next Generation
As a kid, I can remember the excitement of lining up at recess to begin a race and the teacher saying those exact words, “Ready, Set, Go!” We were all supposed to take a moment at the chalked starting line to get ready, set our tennis shoes in the most...
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 Dawn Franks | Aug 7, 2013 | About Your Philanthropy, Millennials, Next Generation
The eraser came hurling directly at me. I had just asked my favorite professor if he could explain the concept he was teaching in our summer statistics class one more time. The concepts were challenging for me, and my professor lost patience with my continual...
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...
