Curiosity + Empathy + Strategy

Elevate your charitable impact by making smart and heartfelt giving decisions

Philanthropic Giving

You have the ability to make a lasting impact. But where to start?

Tapping into her decades of professional and lived experience, Allison will employ a targeted and integrated strategic approach for your specific philanthropic goals.

For community foundations and mission-driven businesses, this can include programmatic options, donor engagement and fundraising strategy, and recommendations for organizational structure and operations.

Philanthropic Structures  

  • Design of comprehensive giving frameworks

  • Creation of donor-advised funds (DAFs)

  • Cross-sector partnership development

  • Innovation in giving structures

Organizational Excellence 

  • Grantmaking strategy design

  • Governance and operational optimization

  • Stakeholder engagement

Donor Impact Enhancement 

  • Values-based strategy development

  • Community-centric needs assessment

Family foundations often need to clarify the current values and philanthropic priorities of their multi-generational members. This can include:

  • A series of in-depth and, perhaps challenging, conversations 

  • Sharing community needs—data, stories, and example organizations—to show impact

  • Reviewing complex gift strategies (including what type of assets to gift, how much, to which vehicles, and when) 

  • Creation of donor-advised funds (DAFs)

Allison welcomes conversation with families and individuals who are considering forming a family foundation or establishing a family giving and investing practice.

The information provided through this website and any related materials is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, or investment advice.

“If you have questions about how to leverage your philanthropic investments for maximum effect, talk with Allison. Her sharp intellect, creative thinking, and deep compassion for strengthening community will demystify things, providing you with place-based answers to support your decision making.”

- Fidelma McGinn, President, Scan Design Foundation