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Navigating Uncertain Times: How Funders Can Support their Grantees
I hope this finds you and your family and community safe and well in this time of fear and hardship. I know we all are inundated at the moment with news and emails about COVID-19, and within philanthropy, funders are wondering how to best respond. Some of those conversations are happening right now, in real…
Launching The Sandgaard Foundation (and how you can join us)
Introducing The Sandgaard Foundation to End the Opioid Epidemic Most of the foundations and family offices I work with like to keep their giving anonymous, out of the limelight. Not this time. I have big news to share about a client who wants to make some noise to meet his mission. Late last year, I…
Find Your Philanthropic Focus
Happy Independence Week! My clients—family offices, family foundations and individual donors—often ask me: how do I figure out how to focus my philanthropy? The world has an infinite number of issues and problems to solve, and the needs are greater than any one funder can possibly fix. And when I ask seasoned philanthropists if they…
London Calling: Family Office Resource Roundup
I’m off to London this week for the Global Family Office Conference, an event organized by my friend and colleague Vahe Vartanian, founder & CEO of the Global Family Office Community. This will be my fourth year attending this conference, and I’m excited to again be with family office members, leaders, and experts from all continents. I’ll…
Listen, Think, Act (and Dance!): iKnow Concert Series is Changing How People Experience Africa
Late last year, Hammer & Associates published the fourth of our EngagedPhilanthropy™ series called Global Philanthropy: A Family Office Guide to International Giving. In it, we highlighted some of the most impactful international initiatives we could find to share best international giving practices with the philanthropy and family office field. One of those organizations is…
Planning Your Philanthropy in 2017: A Toolkit to Balance Passion and Strategy
Happy New Year! I hope you feel rested after the holiday break and rearing to go. I spent the break visiting with friends and family, reading Vince Flynn/Kyle Mills’ new novel “Order to Kill”, and finalizing a 2017 action plan for my business, philanthropic, and personal goals. If you are like many of my family…
BoldlyGo and the OSIRIS-REx Launch
In September, I had one of my childhood dreams come true. I attended the OSIRIS-REx launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cocoa Beach, Florida. OSIRIS-REx has embarked on a seven-year mission to the asteroid called Bennu. Like many asteroids, Bennu may hold answers to some of life’s biggest mysteries: our origins of life…
Why Your Philanthropy Mission Matters
We are pleased to share with you our article titled “Why Your Philanthropy Mission Matters”, which has been published in the autumn edition of Family Office Elite Magazine! In business, you need a strong mission to grow and be successful. So it is in giving. Click here to read why establishing a mission is important and…
Colleague Conversations: Global family office expert sees growing interest in philanthropy
If it’s one thing family offices members agree on, it’s this: It can be lonely working at a family office. Family members and staff value the opportunity to come together to meet peers, share and exchange ideas, gain a support system and learn from each other’s experiences—all in a comfortable environment where they aren’t being…
Read Our Article in Family Office Elite
We are pleased to announce that our article titled “Involving the Next Generation: Opportunities for Family Offices” has been published in the winter edition of Family Office Elite Magazine! Click here to read the article.