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This #AskMeAnything (AMA) focuses on the most commonly asked questions posed by family business leaders […]

The most generous distribution of funds is at Christmas time, but philanthropy is more than just the outflow of capital resources. While it is definitely seen as a financial transaction in response to an emotional experience, when we work with our clients, we take a deeper approach to charitable giving. At your philanthropic disposal are four resources – Time, Talent, Treasures and Ties. Throughout the year, you might have more less of these resources at your disposal. Of all of them, only your treasures are renewable, you can’t get time back… so it is important to determine where, when, and how to leverage or invest the other types of capital.

Click on the image above to read the K&C Spring 2019 newsletter.

Tapping into special days like Earth Day to plan for transformative giving and legacy planning.

In the Spring 2019 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review there is a segment […]

A private foundation is more than just an entity that allows you to make donations to qualified donees. It is a legal structure and an operating corporation. Having a formal structure around your giving, like a private foundation, is just like having a business. The motivations for setting up these types of organizations range from purely altruistic to more technical as part of a tax planning solution. When looking at it from an altruistic perspective, it might be established as a tool to bring family members together, an entity to strengthen a corporate or family brand in a community or a financing solution to a complex social problem. This blog post explores the pitfalls of private foundations.

Each year we post a list of the charities that our clients supported. These are […]

#GivingTuesday Global Day of Giving, November 27, 2018   Calgary, Alberta – Since 2013, #GivingTuesday, […]

Karma & Cents is one… a charity evaluator… so when looking at the plethora of […]