| Charlie Rounds | October 20, 2011 |
| LGBTQ Philanthropy, giving to the global community, making values visible, developing giving strategies |
Featuring Bold Giver: Charlie Rounds
Deciding to give it all was easy. I was an early partner in RSVP, the first tour company to give gay and lesbian people a spectacular and harassment-free vacation. After 16 years in the business I sold my share to one of the partners. The...
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| Pilar Gonzales | September 22, 2011 |
| Communities of color, rights of day laborers, women donors |
Featuring Bold Giver: Pilar Gonzales
During the years I earned as much as $50,000-$100,000 a year, I gave 25-50% of my annual income. One year I earned a modest $16,000, a drop due to health issues – yet I still gave the same percentage of my income. My giving has now settled at 10-25%...
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| Jin Zidell | August 25, 2011 |
| Putting yourself on the line for a cause; unique online methods for vetting and monitoring large numbers of projects; using your wealth fully |
Featuring Bold Giver: Jin Zidell
My goal is to bring safe drinking water to 200 million people by the year 2022. So far I’ve volunteered ten years of my full-time energy and given $7 million (half my wealth) towards that goal- -and at age 73, I’m having the most...
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| Elspeth Gilmore | July 28, 2011 |
| Engaging young adults as donors, activists and organizers; ways to prepare if you're expecting a future inheritance |
Featuring Bold Giver: Elspeth Gilmore
At age 33, I’m at last coming into my own about my wealth. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve learned a lot. I’m finally clear that, for me, using my resources to make change is about collective action.
I grew up...
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| David Akers | June 30, 2011 |
| Calling to Give Big, Sustained Giving to a Cause, Faith and Philanthropy, Global Poverty, CARE, Passing on the values of giving to future generations |
Featuring Bold Giver: David Akers
I grew up in a family that passed on values and faith, and my adult life has been guided by those roots. Early on we learned that a part of our allowance was to go into the church offering basket each Sunday. My mother taught me that life isn’t fair-...
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| Diane Feeney | May 26, 2011 |
| Foundation spending out, “Giving while living,” Social Justice organizing, Family Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, Grassroots organizations, Next steps after foundation spend-out |
Featuring Bold Giver: Diane Feeney
“How do I do the most good with my philanthropic dollars?” This challenging question has guided my development as a bold giver for the past two decades.
I was 21 when my parents created a family foundation so their five children could learn...
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| Alexander Gaguine | April 28, 2011 |
| Giving away money before it becomes yours, being a long-term, major funder to causes you are passionate about, watch-dogging human biotechnology (the efforts to genetically modify humanity) |
Featuring Bold Giver: Alexander Gaguine
When I was 44, I could have received a substantial inheritance. Instead, I persuaded my dad to change his estate plans so nearly all the money went directly into a charitable foundation. In the years before and after my father’s death...
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Nick Beckstead and
Mark Lee | March 24, 2011 |
| Giving effectively, combating global poverty, giving is possible for everyone, Giving What We Can (lifetime pledge to give 10%) |
Featuring Bold Giver: Nick Beckstead and Mark Lee
We are deeply committed to giving significantly, and to helping others experience the joy and power of effective giving. Currently, we’re getting our PhD’s in philosophy at Rutgers University. Graduate students aren’t exactly rolling in...
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| Cheryl A. Pemberton | February 23, 2011 |
| Inspiring the African-American community to be bolder givers, International giving, influencing her world-wide sorority |
Featuring Bold Giver: Cheryl A. Pemberton
I’m on a mission to inspire the African American community to be bold givers – not just with our time and talents, which we always give abundantly -- but with our money as well. What will it take, I wonder, for more of us to give to organizations...
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| Abigail Disney | January 24, 2011 |
| Building genuine relationships as a donor, giving to one's full capacity in all three of Bolder Giving's areas -- give, risk, inspire |
Featuring Bold Giver: Abigail Disney
I was afraid to be bold in my 20s. The first leap I took was moving from LA to NYC – far from my family of origin, to have the space to become myself.
My husband and I started a family foundation in 1991 because it seemed like a good thing to do. ...
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