Giving While Living

Presented by: Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, Atlantic Philanthropies, and Lenore Hanisch, co-executive director and board and family member of the Quixote Foundation.

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Date/Time: , 10th November, 2010, 12:00 PM EST

The National Center on Family Philanthropy and The Chronicle of Philanthropy presented this teleconference on “Giving While Living” featuring Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and Lenore Hanisch, co-executive director and board and family member of the Quixote Foundation.

The number of limited life foundations is increasing. Donors who decide to spend their philanthropic resources while alive employ different strategies in their grantmaking and have different goals than those families whose philanthropies are planned to exist in perpetuity. On this call, LaMarche discusses the approaches taken by a large foundation to keep with its founder’s belief in giving while living and to complete active grantmaking in 2016 and shut its doors by 2020. Hanisch described the thinking that led to the Quixote trustees’ decision to accelerate grantmaking and end this small, Seattle-based foundation in 2017. This special call was held on Wednesday, November 10th, 2010.

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