This man, Albert Lexie, shines shoes at a hospital in Pittsburgh. Over the last 30 years, he’s given all his tips to the charity care fund at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. That’s added up to $200,000 so far! From a shoe shine guy! All that glitters… I love stories like this! It forces us [...]
Do you remember Jean Preston, the unassuming librarian who’d amassed an $8 million estate? Or Helene Whitlock Alley, the $100 donor that bequethed $7.3 million to a diabetes group. Well here’s another entry in the never underestimate anyone category: Richard Walters. Perhaps you’ve heard his name on NPR: “Support for NPR comes from the estate [...]
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Prospecting blog has an interesting post about a new planned giving tool. Apparently, it’s a CD that donors can play to see the benefits of making a planned gifts and a charity can customize it to be the “charity of choice” for the example. But wait! There’s more: What worries some [...]
Usually when we do think about estate giving, or so-called “planned giving,” we tend to think of really rich people. But the AFP reports shares that a new study by Campbell & Company blows this preconception away. According to the AFP: Most surprising for fundraisers was that income did not affect the likelihood that donors [...]
Last week, I posted a bit about the counter-intuitive relationship of the economy and people’s generousity here in Maine. Now planned giving guru Robert Sharpe’s April Newsletter comments on it from a much better researched perspective! Here’s a bit: With all the media attention on our turbulent economy in recent months, fund development executives may [...]
Check this article out from the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s daily email: A Charity Levy for Britain’s Wealthy? Affluent British people who do not give at least 10 percent of their incomes to charity should pay an equivalent surcharge in taxes, said Frank Field, former welfare reform minister for Britain’s Labour party, according to The Financial [...]
