Live with purpose.
Give with purpose.
OUR VISION
We support people to become purpose-driven changemakers who experience increased connection, meaning, and impact through their giving.
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Our Approach
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Advise and coach individuals and families to cultivate their sense of purpose and deepen impact through their philanthropic efforts
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Build communities of donors, philanthropy advisors, and social impact leaders through retreats, workshops, and learning journeys grounded in purpose, knowledge, relationships, and impact
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Advance the field by building tools, resources, and partnerships to expand the channels that accelerate the flow of resources to catalyze impact
Our Belief
Given our own purpose-driven lives and careers focused on maximizing human potential, our vision is that this work will:​​
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Mobilize resources to enable the young people furthest from opportunities, and their families, to thrive
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Develop “Dream Donors” - high-trust philanthropic partners who operate with humility and intention
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Enable social sector leaders to spend more time putting their genius to work on breakthrough solutions and reduce the hours managing the challenges that can accompany philanthropy when it’s not done well
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Catalyze systems change by connecting individuals to networks - our challenges require collective creativity and action
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Cultivate transformational experiences where people from different backgrounds experience profound connection and shared humanity, recognizing the power of the beloved community
OUR TEAM
We started with a question: If we support individual donors to cultivate their sense of purpose in a community where they build skills, knowledge and connections to changemakers, can we accelerate moving money off the sidelines to the communities and causes where material resources will fuel impact? We have unique and complementary experience as coaches, advisors, strategists, entrepreneurs, field-builders, and nonprofit, philanthropic, and corporate leaders. We have spent the past two years piloting Purposeful Living, Purposeful Giving with a variety of clients including the Park City Community Foundation, Harvard University, and the US Olympic and Paralympic Foundation, along with cohorts of individual donors that we've hosted. In addition, Jen and Becky have been developing a set of deep-dive resources and retreats for advisors and donors to navigate giving to Education and Thriving Youth. We each have our independent advisory practices and we partner with each other and with additional collaborators in the field to advance Purposeful Giving.
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Philanthropy advisor: Support individual and foundation donors (giving range 1M-50+M/year) to design and execute philanthropic approach
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Strategy consultant: 15+ years of work designing and scaling complex social impact initiatives
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Nonprofit CEO: 12+ years founding/leading education organizations
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Affiliations: Meaningful Giving Advisors Accelerator, P150, Daylight Impact Philanthropy Advisors, 21/64, Fidelity Charitable Advisors, Pahara/Aspen Global Leadership Network Fellow
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Education: Stanford University degrees in English, Education, and Business
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Personal: Proud mom to a 20 year old changemaker; lifetime swimmer, coach and outdoor enthusiast, based in Boulder, CO
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Philanthropy advisor: Advise and support individuals, families and foundation leaders on their impactful giving (early stage toward $1M-$50M+/year range)
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Foundation leader: Founding executive director of $100M+/year education foundation; supported launch of multiple moderate-large foundations
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Education leader: Nonprofit executive director supporting district and charter school principals, new school launches and district redesign; former teacher and independent school leader and board member
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Affiliations: Meaningful Giving Advisors Accelerator, P150, Daylight Impact Philanthropy Advisors, 21/64, Fidelity Charitable Advisors, Pahara/Aspen Global Leadership Network Fellow
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Education: Harvard MA and MEd; Yale MBA; ongoing lifelong learner
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Personal: Love outdoor activities, racquet sports, and most of all being a mom to teenage twin sons; based in Boston, MA
Purposeful Living, Purposeful Giving Program Co-creator
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Executive coach: Connects individuals with their strengths, values, and purpose to lead and live a more integrated life.
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Nonprofit CEO: Led cancer support organization fueled by dynamic college student leaders
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Corporate leader: Led teams in strategy consulting, entrepreneurial start-up and large multi-national corporation
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Affiliations: PCC, International Coaching Federation, Coactive Training Institute, Leadership Circle, Hogan Assessments, Board member of the Goodness Web
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Education: Stanford University, MS in Engineering-Economic Systems, BA in Economics and Psychology
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Personal: Enthusiastic mom to three “young adult” children ages 22, 20 and 14; married for 29 years; endurance hiker; reside in Chicago, IL
CONTACT
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