by Dawn Franks | Sep 5, 2018 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Family, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation, Wealth
I have a friend who loves to go to party fundraisers. Her husband finds a buddy to talk with while she dances from one group to another because she loves people and doesn’t want to miss a single friend. And for her, it’s all the more enjoyable because she...
by Dawn Franks | Mar 20, 2018 | Dawn's Blogs, Family, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation, Philanthropy in Action
Tiny stacks of 35-millimeter slides covered the dining room table. One by one I passed them through the slide viewer. The story of my parents’ earliest years together unfolded from Okinawa to North Carolina to Colorado and Texas. Pictures are only part of the story. ...
by Dawn Franks | Feb 21, 2018 | Dawn's Blogs, Family, Giving, Millennials, Next Generation, Philanthropy in Action
If you could invent one thing to make the world a better place, what would it be? That’s the question we put to eleven-year-old Jack during the game Phil and His Family’s Adventures in Giving. Joined by his thirteen-year-old brother and another friend of the same age,...
by Dawn Franks | Dec 13, 2017 | Dawn's Blogs, Donors, Family, Giving, Next Generation
Peeping through a keyhole on Christmas morning I could see the packages and toys Santa brought. All under the age of ten, we four made up the grandkid clan taking turns looking through that keyhole while my grandmother took her sweet time cooking breakfast. My sweet...
by Dawn Franks | Nov 15, 2017 | Dawn's Blogs, Family, Giving
My weekend was spent with a family, two generations. Gathered together for an annual giving meeting they aimed to work through a sizeable list of giving requests and agree on how much to give. The second generation had come from various states to join their parents in...
