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The Gift of Giving: Explore Your Stories and Write Your Legacy!

The Gift of Giving: Explore Your Stories and Write Your Legacy!

The Gift of Giving is a valuable resource, guide, and tool for givers of all ages at all stages to tell their legacy story.

2023

Stories

Dawn Franks

How to Make the Most of Your Time at Fundraising Events

How many special event fundraisers have you attended — this year, last year, the last decade? I've been to so many that it would take all…

Feb 19

How to Make the Most of Your Time at Fundraising Events

Feb 19

Dawn Franks

Pondering Philanthropy Questions from a “Little Old Lady”

Sometimes, when I begin writing, a particular philanthropy issue is on my mind. But today, there was no such burning issue, so in the…

Feb 16

Pondering Philanthropy Questions from a “Little Old Lady”

Feb 16

Dawn Franks

How One Family Brings Their Faith to Work and Changes the Lives of Children!

Listening to someone talk about family is always full of emotion — funny, sad, uplifting, surprising. Such a conversation is a gift; there…

Feb 15

How One Family Brings Their Faith to Work and Changes the Lives of Children!

Feb 15

Dawn Franks

How Do You Know If Your Last One-third Has Started?

What if today is the beginning of the last one-third of your life? How will you define success for that last one-third? Generosity or…

Feb 14

How Do You Know If Your Last One-third Has Started?

Feb 14

Dawn Franks

Turn Special Event Fundraising Into Philanthropy Networking

How many special event fundraisers have you attended — this year, last year, the last decade?

Feb 7

Turn Special Event Fundraising Into Philanthropy Networking

Feb 7

Dawn Franks

Grandparents Teach Giving Thru Action — Your Philanthropy

While exiting my car, I noticed a young teenager, phone in hand, sitting in the front seat of a truck. Her glance revealed an unhappy face…

Jun 12, 2023

Grandparents Teach Giving Thru Action — Your Philanthropy

Jun 12, 2023

Dawn Franks

Make Your Best Gift One of Giving to Family and Friends — Your Philanthropy

I’m serious — the very best gift you will ever give to family and friends is to spend time on your legacy story. Right now, you’re telling…

May 16, 2023

Make Your Best Gift One of Giving to Family and Friends — Your Philanthropy

May 16, 2023

Dawn Franks

Buy The Gift of Giving Today to Leave a Legacy You Want Others to See — Your Philanthropy

With spring unfolding, right now is the perfect time to share something new. Today, The Gift of Giving is available to my friends…

May 3, 2023

Buy The Gift of Giving Today to Leave a Legacy You Want Others to See — Your Philanthropy

May 3, 2023

Dawn Franks

Ten Ways to Ensure the Giving Legacy You Hope For — Your Philanthropy

The birthday card danced across the parking lot. Decorated with a handful of balloons on the front, it seemed perfectly appropriate that a…

Apr 4, 2023

Ten Ways to Ensure the Giving Legacy You Hope For — Your Philanthropy

Apr 4, 2023

Dawn Franks

How Your Future Legacy Can Be Greater Than the Legacy Remembered — Your Philanthropy

Quickly scanning my email, I saw The Round Table. Authored by my friend Fred Smith, it’s a blog I read on Thursday mornings when I have…

Mar 20, 2023

How Your Future Legacy Can Be Greater Than the Legacy Remembered — Your Philanthropy

Mar 20, 2023

Dawn Franks

Dawn Franks

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Adviser, writer, learner-teacher of philanthropy. Administrator, counselor, confidant to private family foundations, donors, and businesses when giving matters™

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