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Nov 30 2022

Five Tips to Protect Donor Intent and Family Foundation Unity

By Margie Boyd, Executive Vice President, Your Philanthropy, margie@your-philanthropy.com   With the greatest transfer of wealth from one generation to the next...
Jun 15 2022

If You Reap What You Sow, What Kind of Garden Would You Grow?

By Margie Boyd, Executive Vice President, Your Philanthropy Sitting in a recent foundation board meeting listening to the wealth advisors give their financial forecast...
Apr 20 2022

How Place-Based Philanthropy Benefits Local Communities

By Margie Boyd, Executive Vice President, Your Philanthropy When I first moved to East Texas over 20 years ago, I remember jumping online and visiting the local chamber...
Jan 25 2022

The Politics of Generosity: Reclaiming Our Nation’s Misspent Vocabulary

YPJ Note: After reading Cathy's article in our local newspaper, we thought she asked some very interesting questions. As we have shared many times in the YP Journal,...
Jul 07 2021

How to Build Lasting Partnerships with the Greatest Impact

This past weekend I had some extra time to read a book that has been patiently waiting for me to pay it some attention…Accidental Philanthropist - A Journey Towards...
fail forward
Oct 13 2020

Daring to Risk Failure Leads to Greater Success

By Margie Boyd, Executive Vice President, Your Philanthropy After reading Dawn’s blog last week, I accepted the challenge and read Suzanne Smith’s article, “The Social...
donor's eyes
Nov 29 2016

Changed By A Glimpse Through A Donor’s Eyes

By Margie Boyd, Executive Vice President, Your Philanthropy As an executive director of a newly formed nonprofit, I had a lot to learn and I knew it. My passion far...
Dec 05 2013

Fred Smith: Obstacles or Opportunties

As a percentage of all charitable giving in the United States ($316 billion), the religious sector continues to collect the lion's share - 36 percent. While that is...
Nov 14 2013

Fred Smith: The First Leaf of Fall

The Velvet Revolution, or Gentle Revolution, was a non-violent, student-led revolution in Czechoslovakia that took place from November 17 to December 29, 1989....
Oct 17 2013

Fred Smith: My Fair Lady

In 1931, Judge Sam Lindsey donated a plot of land on South Broadway to the Tyler Women's Forum for their new building - the Tyler Woman's Building - with the...

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