Philanthropy Impact Magazine, Succession Planning: What Next?

Winter 2015

Philanthropy Impact Magazine, Succession Planning: What Next?

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In Issue 7 of Philanthropy Impact Magazine we explore the questions and discussions surrounding philanthropy and succession planning. From the desires of Next Gen givers, time frames and establishing a family charter, through to the need for leadership and the development of purpose to a family's wealth.

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Philanthropy is often hardwired into the values that guide behavior and norms in families of wealth. For example in ‘Natural Philanthropists’, a report by UK Community Foundation and the Institute...
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Families have a 97% chance to fail the transfer of its business after three generations,’ PWC, KPMG and the Montaigne Institute have observed. Those who would like to transfer their...
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I often refer to myself as a ‘First-Generation Inheritor’ and this is where continuity and succession become critical. I am truly fortunate and humbled to inherit our family’s true wealth...
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Family businesss that seek to escape the lawfulness of ‘From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves’ will have to do things differently. They should stop focusing merely on estate planning; instead, they should...
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Having spent a lifetime painstakingly assembling an art collection, it is hardly surprising that many collectors give careful thought to what will happen to their collections after they die. Some...
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Succession planning involves making choices that will affect future roles and relationships in a family. When the lives of family members are connected through various assets, like a business or...
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I must have spoken to at least 20 different families in the last year about the knotty question of philanthropic timeframes: do I give what I have while I’m here...
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As corporates we need to be looking at programmes that also work with ex-offenders, addicts, women, the elderly and the homeless. It has to be about a sense of mutual...
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“The rich are different from you and me,” F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have once told Ernest Hemmingway, to which he retorted: “Yes, they have more money”.
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At the core of most successful family-owned businesses is a set of shared values. These values can bring family members and employees together to work for a common goal. Yet...
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How the legacy and family philanthropy discussions are becoming intertwined with broader family business and investment affairs
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As wealthy donors become more globally mobile, does this spell the end for the ‘charity starts at home’ mentality and the beginning of ‘causes before borders’? And what does this...
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Most families give to charities but a strategic approach to this through family philanthropy can achieve much more than benefits to the causes chosen.
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'when it comes to some of the most important things in life, there are no metrics that apply...'
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There appears to be an ever-increasing trend for wealthy families to formulate family charters- essentially the ‘club rules’ by which the family operates.
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The family foundation model provides a more formal structure for grantmaking, often adopted by families whose philanthropy is significant in scale and longevity

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