What if giving brings up a variety of emotions and nuanced challenges? What if there is a way to not waste money in feeling good about donating to nonprofits and foundations?
Over the course of her career, Sybil Ackerman-Munson has devised strategies worth $45 million for large and small private foundations, individual donors and public charities. Sybil has served on numerous boards, task forces and stakeholder groups. She also knows what it’s like to be a grantee. She worked for over ten years at environmental nonprofits prior to her work as a foundation advisor. Mrs. Ackerman-Munson holds a J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School, a Masters Degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, as well as a B.S. from Scripps College.
As Sybil processes 200 proposals a year, she shares the four (4) steps to creating your “giving strategy” and how to give back well! She also offers mini courses on her website to assist others in their discovering what’s interesting to them so you too can “Do Your Good”.
4:40 Asking the right questions re: a non-profit’s or foundation’s vision 10:10 Connecting donors with non-profits and foundations 12:30 The top two emotions that come up when giving re: trends & scarcity 24:44 Giving in your lifetime and giving for your legacy (“legacy giving”) 26:00 Annual letter to yourself: Why have you given? (for the future) 30:00 Similarities and differences between giving now and giving later 35:00 Sustainer, campaigner, and launcher donors; project grants 42:00 A success story about the value of being clear: a family 45:32 Linking your comprehensive giving strategy into who you are 48:28 Sybil's core values expressed through her work, heart and life 49:37 Sybil's personal legacy and not needing her name to be known
To learn more about Mrs. Ackerman-Munson's business, visit: https://ackermanmunson.com/; https://www.linkedin.com/in/sybil-ack... https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood; and https://linkin.bio/doyourgood.
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