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We all have clients who feel they've fully provided for their descendants and loved ones financially, so their remaining estate-planning objectives are purely philanthropic. The end-of-life estate plans for those clients become very simple make a...
Bill and Melinda Gates do it. Bill Clinton does it. Bono does it. And thanks to the Internet, the Average Joe can do it. What is it, you ask? It's the new rage in philanthropy. And although it's called by many names including engaged philanthropy...
Recent world events have brought new attention to the need for effective cross-border philanthropy. Whether concerned with immediate response to disasters or long-term development needs, U.S.-based donors are moved to help. Their advisors are...
In business transactions, each party generally seeks to maximize his advantage. But for charitable gifts, typically the donor and the charity have the same goal to best further the charity's mission. Nevertheless, donors want their directions for...
The recession is so 2009. No, seriously. The recession ended in June 2009, 18 months after it began in December 2007, according to The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research. But the eight economists who make...