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Donor Advised Fund

A donor advised fund is similar to having your own foundation but is much simpler to maintain because the administrative requirements and overhead is spread among many donor advisers. You name your account however you want and have advisory privileges for how your account's money is granted out. With the two DAFs listed below, the account is socially responsibly invested, which is not the case with nearly all other DAFs out there.

Calvert Giving Fund and FAFN Giving Fund lets you double your social and environmental good by investing charitable assets in a community and sustainable investing platform until you make grant recommendations for your DAF account.

Ask me for a personal introduction to this service and read the information kit and prospectus for more information including fees and expenses.

Family Foundations

While family foundations are not directly included in our slate of services, we can participate with you, your lawyer, and your tax adviser in helping. Specifically, we can manage the foundation assets so they are socially responsibly invested and not working at cross purposes with your foundation mission.

Note: If you are thinking about establishing a family foundation with less than $1,500,000, we recommend you consider a donor advised fund (see above and consult with your attorney) instead. This is because of the significant overhead required to manage a foundation. For example, it will need incorporation, legal and accounting advice, ongoing record keeping, money management, IRS filings, annual formal meetings of officers, and other general administration. On the other hand, those tasks are already included and up and running in donor advised funds and the overhead is shared among many donor advisers.

• This practical, easy-to-read guide starts out by explaining how most charitable giving only temporarily addresses problems by feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, etc. Yes, people and the environment have immediate needs, however, Collins explains, such giving does not work on changing the underlying systems and social structures that allowed such transgressions to occur in the first place. 
• By reading through this guide, you will learn how some people are giving strategically—giving to change the things that are wrong in society. Robin Hood is filled with stories, sidebars, and quotes from all kinds of actual folks who are successfully giving in strategic, innovative ways.
• Author, Chuck Collins, is now heading up an organization called Responsible Wealth that helps wealthy people work on tax fairness and corporate responsibility campaigns.

Additional Resources

Changemakers, founded in 1997, is working on expanding the number of dollars and donors committed to social change and on transforming the values and practice of philanthropy. Their three main areas of program activity include: grant making, donor leadership development, and outreach and advocacy work. Through their programs and activities, Changemakers acts as a bridge between donors, business leaders, non-profit leaders, grassroots activists, and financial advisors. Healing and greater effectiveness in our communities will come only when walls are broken down and people learn to work together to solve complex social and environmental problems. Web site offers an excellent overview of social change philanthropy.

Responsible Wealth consists of leaders in business, community, government, philanthropy, academia and finance. Members are among the wealthiest 5% of Americans, the primary beneficiaries of the robust growth of the American economy. They are united by their common concern that despite a booming economy, many are not sharing in the prosperity.
Founded in 1997, Responsible Wealth is affiliated with United for a Fair Economy (UFE), a national non-profit devoted to putting a spotlight on the dangers of excessive inequality of income and wealth in the United States. Responsible Wealth's work is focused on four areas: Fair taxes, a living wage for all, greater corporate accountability, and broadened asset ownership for all Americans.

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