On the Phone With… Shirley Fredricks of the Lawrence Welk Family Foundation

E-Newsletter Article, July 2010 Family Giving News

Editor’s note: We’re pleased to introduce a new feature in Family Giving News this month – On the Phone With… Each month, we’ll share a short audio conversation with family philanthropists and leaders from around the country. In our inaugural edition, we catch up with old friend, the truly magnetic (literally!) Shirley Fredricks of the Lawrence Welk Family Foundation.

“Every citizen in the United States, and every child, needs to know that they can be a philanthropist.”

Shirley Fredricks is a trustee and former executive director of the Lawrence Welk Family Foundation in Los Angeles. Over the past 20 years, Shirley has been deeply engaged in virtually every important movement in the country to educate and inspire family foundation trustees and next generation family members. Among many other honors, Shirley was a founding board member of the National Center for Family Philanthropy.

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