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Lori Shepherd with Arizona Humane Society and Tiffany House with Gift Planning Institute E28

December 13, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Lori Shepherd with Arizona Humane Society and Tiffany House with Gift Planning Institute E28

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Lori Shepherd with Arizona Humane Society and Tiffany House with Gift Planning Institute E28

The Mission of Arizona Humane Society is to save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.

Their lifesaving programs, including the Second Chance Animal Trauma Hospital™, Mutternity Suites, Kitten Nursery, Bottle Baby Kitten ICU and Parvo Puppy ICU save the lives of pets routinely euthanized in shelters. AHS’ comprehensive medical, behavioral rehabilitation, surrender intervention and spay/neuter initiatives have helped them save an additional 80,000 lives over the last five years and become a safety net for the Valley’s most vulnerable pets.

As a modern open admissions shelter, the Arizona Humane Society sees cases daily that are beyond the scope of imagination – abuse, neglect, abandonment. Their Ethical No-Kill Philosophy ensures that they never euthanize a pet for space or length of time. And although they can not save them all, there is not a day that goes by where they don’t try.

Lori Shepherd is the Planned Giving Manager for Arizona Humane Society. In that role, she helps connect donors interested in planned giving with the many ways that they can join Arizona Humane Society’s Legacy Circle; such as including AHS in their will or trust, creating charitable remainder trusts, or naming AHS as a beneficiary to an IRA or life insurance policy.

Another exciting program at AHS that Lori loves to share with donors is their Continuing Care Program. This program is a special benefit provided to Legacy Circle members. Pets who are enrolled in the program and have owners who predecease them are placed with loving forever families who have been carefully selected by AHS staff.

Lori loves connecting people with pets and their passion for animal welfare.

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The Gift Planning Institute is dedicated to empower and inspire people to contribute tax advantaged assets to non-profit organizations. Financial Advisory services are offered through Raymond James Financial Services.

Tiffany House is a financial advisor and Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy, CAP®, dedicated to Charitable Planning and helping her clients create a master game plan that incorporates their intellectual, ethical and financial legacy. Tiffany also provides outsourced planned giving services to non-profit organizations.

Her experience of helping clients donate complicated assets, tax efficiently, provides a unique opportunity for organizations to benefit from her vantage point.

Being an active member of the community is important to Tiffany. She is the Past-President of Planned Giving Round Table of Arizona (PGRT) and Vice President of the Board at A.T. Still University Women in Philanthropy.

She is a board member of Junior Achievement and Don’t be a Chump!, Check for a Lump! She is an advisory board member for multiple non-profit organizations.

She a mentor in the Arizona Community Foundation’s Endowment Building Initiative and is a graduate of Scottsdale Leadership Class 31.

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About Jacqueline Destremps

Jacqueline Destremps is a creative marketing strategist and founded Another Hand Advantage, LLC in 2014 to help community minded small business owners and nonprofit professionals move forward more confidently with their marketing strategy. After graduating from Arizona State University with a degree in Psychology, she has spent her professional career working in both the nonprofit and for-profit sector.

She now enjoys being self-employed and the flexibility it provides to allow more time to volunteer, serve on nonprofit boards, choose pro-bono projects, run 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun (which she co-founded in 2014) and travel the world. Jacqueline believes in creating connections between businesses and nonprofits in the community to stimulate growth and collaboration.

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Junior Achievement with Anne Landers and ASU Lodestar Center with Nicole Almond Anderson E16

February 18, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Junior Achievement with Anne Landers and ASU Lodestar Center with Nicole Almond Anderson E16

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Junior Achievement with Anne Landers and ASU Lodestar Center with Nicole Almond Anderson E16

Continuing education outside the traditional classroom is important for creating leaders of all ages whether it’s the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation and their undergraduate, graduate or certificate programs designed to provide professionals with the tools they need to accelerate social impact or Junior Achievement of Arizona and their unique programs empowering K-12 students to be successful.

Nonprofit professionals and advocates of a strong workforce will want to tune in to hear how these two organizations are making great strides to build strong communities not just in Arizona, but worldwide!

For the last 60 years, Junior Achievement of Arizona (JA) has been empowering the futures of millions of Arizona students by giving them the knowledge and skills they need to manage their money, plan for their future, and make smart academic, career and economic choices. Delivered by 9,500 business and community volunteer mentors, our hands-on, age-appropriate programs focus on three key areas: financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship.

Serving more than 80,000 students each year and over 2 million since its founding, JA is shaping the college- and career-readiness conversation, and we play an important role in Arizona’s workforce and economic development. Our programs help students connect what they learn in the classroom to the real world, and demonstrate how learning correlates to earning – knowledge critical to empowering today’s students to be successful, contributing members of society in the future.

We serve students with diverse backgrounds and socio-economic status throughout Arizona, with primary focus on providing our programs to students from low-income households.

We are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization wholly dependent on the financial and volunteer support of individuals, foundations and businesses.

We have two offices – headquartered in Tempe, where our two JA BizTown® facilities are located, and another office in Tucson, serving our Southern Arizona students and partners. We are a member of Junior Achievement USA.

Anne Landers is the Senior Director of Marketing and Development for Junior Achievement of Arizona, a Tempe-based nonprofit that prepares 83,000 primarily low-income children to succeed in work and life each year by educating them about financial literacy, career readiness, and entrepreneurial thinking. She has been with the organization for four years and is the organization’s first marketing director in 20 years.

Before coming to JA, she was the Interim Director at an international community development nonprofit, Life In Abundance, where she oversaw the implementation of U.S. based operations of programs abroad. She began her career at a start-up advertising and PR agency, David and Sam PR (Decibel Blue), where she was one of the agency’s first two employees.

Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from ASU. She lives in Gilbert with her husband, two soon-to-be school-aged sons and black lab.

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The ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation is a global leader in advancing understanding and effective philanthropic and nonprofit practice as a distinctive community development strategy.

Through research, education, technical assistance and convenings, the Center focuses on advancing nonprofit leaders and philanthropists to solve problems, to realize a community’s highest aspirations and to accelerate social impact.

For over a decade, Nicole Anderson has worked at Arizona State University where currently she is the Manager of Marketing, Communications and Stakeholder Relations for the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation within the Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions. She serves as President of the Sun Devil Club’s Young Professionals Group and the Vice President of the ASU Young Alumni Chapter. In 2017, City of Phoenix Mayor Stanton appointed Nicole to the Mayor’s Commission on Disability Issues.

She is a member of the Board of Directors for United Cerebral Palsy of Central Arizona and for the Pitt Hopkins Research Foundation, an organization dedicated to finding a treatment, and an eventual cure, of Pitt Hopkins Syndrome and other similar disorders. She also founded RareiTees for a Cure, a clothing brand created with a unique mission to bring awareness to rare diseases.

Anderson received a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU, as well as Masters of Nonprofit Leadership and Management from the Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions at ASU.

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About 3C Amplified

3C Amplified is a space to highlight businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals collaborating to amplify their impact in the community. We share real world examples for how partnerships allow for growth both within our businesses and our communities. Listen in as we share how others are connecting, creating and collaborating and how you can be part of something greater.

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Dr. Denise La Salle & Marcos Jimenez with the La Salle Educational Foundation

February 6, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Dr. Denise La Salle & Marcos Jimenez with the La Salle Educational Foundation

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Nikole Toptas, Denise La Salle, Marcos Jimenez

Dr. Denise La Salle & Marcos Jimenez/La Salle Educational Foundation

Dr. Denise J. La Salle resides in Orlando, Florida with her husband. She had three boys and two grandchildren. Dr. La Salle is currently an adjunct professor at National University College. Currently, she owns and manages a used tires retail shop. Also, she opened three non-profits which are La Salle Educational Foundation, International Books of Hope, and Adopt a Teacher Foundation. Her vision is to open schools in foreign countries for less privileged people. Dr. La Salle is in the process to open the first bilingual school and library in Bolivia. Her philosophy is “I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of someone through education.” Dr. La Salle received a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in International Business from Walden University in 2018. A Master in Educational Leadership from Ana G. Mendez University in 2010 and a Bachelors in Elementary Education from Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. Recognized as a STAR teacher for excellence teaching, for which she became among the top 25% best teachers in Orange County, Florida. Dr. La Salle received a recognition letter from the President of the United States in 2007. In her time off, she enjoys spending time with her grandchildren and traveling with her husband.

She has published two journal publications: La Salle, D. (2018). Strategies for Profit Educational Leaders Use to Reduce Employee Turnover and Maintain Sustainability (Doctoral dissertation). Available from ProQuest

La Salle, D., Beato, A., & Velkova, G. (2018). Successful strategies used by leaders to reduce employee turnover and maintain sustainability in for-profit colleges. The International Journal of Business & Management (ISSN 2321-8916). Retrieved from http://www.theijbm.com

Society of St Vincent de Paul with Associate Executive Director Shannon Clancy

November 13, 2018 by Karen

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Phoenix Business Radio

Society of St Vincent de Paul with Associate Executive Director Shannon Clancy

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Society of St Vincent de Paul with Associate Executive Director Shannon Clancy

St. Vincent de Paul has been working to feed, clothe, house and heal people in Arizona since 1946. Services include food boxes, dining rooms, a medical and dental clinic, a transitional shelter, and support services for people experiencing homelessness and poverty. All programs are integrated to meet immediate needs, prevent homelessness, and provide support for those with nowhere else to turn for help.

Shannon Clancy is the Associate Executive Director & Chief Philanthropy Officer at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix where she oversees St. Vincent de Paul’s development, marketing and volunteer services functions. St. Vincent de Paul works to feed, clothe, house and heal homeless and working poor individuals and families and to provide opportunities for members of the community to engage in service.

The most rewarding part of Shannon’s work at St. Vincent de Paul is building relationships with committed, generous people who desire to make a difference in the lives of those in need. She is a daily witness to the lives that are changed as a result of this work, not simply among those that come to St. Vincent de Paul for help but also among the donors, volunteers and staff who open their arms and hearts to serve.

Shannon is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has a Masters in Human Development from the University of Maryland at College Park. She and her husband Dan Klocke have four children.

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How Will The New Tax Law Impact Giving To Non-Profits?

October 25, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

How Will The New Tax Law Impact Giving To Non-Profits?

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Craig Frankel, Evan Pearson, Christy Eckoff, Adam Gaslowitz

Christy Butler Eckoff/Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Christy Butler Eckoff is responsible for the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta’s comprehensive planned and major giving programs, Nonprofit Advantage Fund private placement institutional investment vehicle, asset-based giving, legal issues pertaining to charitable tax planning, funds, and agreements, and business development. Previously, Christy served as senior director of gift planning at Georgia State University. She is past-president of the Georgia Planned Giving Council, past-president of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Greater Atlanta chapter and a member of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council, North Carolina bar and the Junior League of Atlanta. Christy is a board member of AdNet (the Advancement Network for Community Foundations) and the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners. Christy graduated from Duke University, earned her J.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and LL.M. in Taxation at the University of Washington. Christy is a CFRE Certified Fundraising Executive and a CAP® Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy.

Evan M. Pearson/Hillside

Evan M. Pearson has been working with donors and raising money in Atlanta for over 20 years. He is currently the Director of Development at Hillside. His department is responsible for individual donor, foundation, and corporate engagement and solicitation, special events, volunteers, and community engagement. Evan earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida, a master’s degree from Georgia State University, and a MBA from Kennesaw State University. Evan is a member of the Advisors in Philanthropy as well as a CFRE Certified Fundraising Executive and a CAP® Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy.

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100 Women Who Care Valley of the Sun and Sanford Institute of Philanthropy at Maricopa Community Colleges E7

August 18, 2018 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

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With more than 24,000 nonprofits registered in the State of Arizona, it can be difficult for nonprofit founders to rely on passion alone to have their mission attract the attention of donors and volunteers. Luckily the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy has expanded to Arizona bringing with it their mission to increase the fundraising capabilities and impact nonprofits have in their communities. Not only did we learn more about the curriculum provided by SIP to move these nonprofits forward but also the trend of giving circles, like 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun.

Listen in as guests Kim Tarnopolski, co-founder of 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun and Brent Boardman, Philanthropy Education Project Manager for Sanford Institute of Philanthropy discuss how their organizations are making philanthropy happen in Arizona and how you can get involved, too!

100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun is a local philanthropic group of women who meet quarterly, contribute locally and connect personally to benefit well deserving charities. Their members are like-minded, passionate women who nominate local nonprofits in an effort to bring awareness, education and funding to those causes. Ultimately, one charity is selected each quarter to support monetarily. The ladies are leveraging their resources so their small gifts ($100 per quarter) add up to a significant donation to a local charity ($10,000 per quarter).

The chapter has four sister groups that meet around the Valley of the Sun on a quarterly basis – Ahwatukee, Scottsdale, East Valley and West Valley. Their goal is to donate $100,000 annually to local charities in the Phoenix metro area. To them, it is not about just signing a check; it is about caring.

Kim Tarnopolski is a community steward who has made a Valley-wide impact to better the lives and opportunities for others. She is selfless in giving to the causes she believes in. She donates with her energy, her talent, her dollars and her time. Her corporate background includes roles in community building, philanthropy, business consulting and event planning. Everything she does is driven by her desire to bring communities, individuals and causes together so an impact is made, and the world is a better place because of it.

Kim is the Chief Community Builder and driving force behind 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun (100+ WWC). 100+ WWC is a philanthropic group of passionate women who meet quarterly to identify local charities in need. Kim, along with Jacqueline Destremps, Stephanie Millner and Jenn Kaye, launched the organization in 2015 with a goal of donating $500,000 in five years to local nonprofits. Today, there are four sister groups who meet around the Valley with donations totaling almost $300,000.

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Sanford Institute of Philanthropy at Maricopa Community Colleges Mission Statement: To help nonprofits significantly increase their fundraising capabilities and the impact they have in their communities and society, through proven contemporary curriculum presented by world-class nonprofit leaders, best in class faculty and renowned philanthropists.

Brent D. Boardman has been teaching and presenting on Organizational Behavior, Leading Projects in Organizations, and Team Dynamics since 2008. He is an ASU Fellow for the Arizona Program for Policy, Ethics, and Education Leadership, author of Connecting with Students through Online Education in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Brent currently serves as a Philanthropy Education Manager for the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy at Maricopa Community Colleges.

With the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy at Maricopa Community Colleges, he works with nonprofit organizations across Arizona to increase their fundraising potential by applying the Cause Selling techniques created by T. Denny Sanford.

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Year-End Philanthropy and Charitable Giving Ideas

November 25, 2015 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

Year-End Philanthropy and Charitable Giving Ideas

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Craig Frankel, Itai Tsur, Justin Sullivan, Patrick Renn, Adam Gaslowitz

On this episode of “Wealth Matters”, hosts Adam Gaslowitz and Craig Frankel discuss year-end philanthropy and charitable giving ideas with their guests Pat Renn, Itai Tsur and Justin Sullivan.

Pat Renn/Renn Wealth Management Group

Pat Renn is the founder and president of The Renn Wealth Management Group. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional with more than 35 years of experience in counseling high-net-worth individuals, business owners and professionals regarding their financial affairs.

Pat has been president of the Georgia Society of the Institute of Certified Financial Planners and president of the Georgia chapter of the International Association for Financial Planning. He is a member of the Society of Financial Services Professionals, the Atlanta Estate Planning Council and the Georgia Planned Giving Council. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Villanova University and an MBA from Loyola College. He holds the Advanced Pension Planning certificate from The American College as well as the Investment Management Consultant designation from Raymond James Institute.

Pat served on the board of trustees for Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School and was chair of their Endowment Funds Committee. Pat also served as chair of the Cathedral of St. Philip Endowment Funds and is the current chair of the Episcopal Media Center Endowment. He is past board chair of the Georgia Special Olympics and has served on numerous charitable and professional organization boards.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-renn-7b74541

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Itai Tsur/Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta

Itai D. Tsur is the Senior Director of Planned Giving and Endowment (PG&E) at Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. In that capacity, Itai manages and oversees Federation’s endowment, including its stewardship program, policies and procedures, record retention, fund distributions, programming and donor services. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Emory University School of Law, Itai is an experienced attorney who worked for several years in private practice both in New York City and Atlanta prior to entering the world of nonprofit. Itai subsequently earned his MBA from Georgia State University, Robinson College of Business, and draws upon that training in order to guide PG&E’s transition to The Atlanta Jewish Foundation, which is set to launch in early 2016.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itaitsur

Twitter: https://twitter.com/itaitsur

Justin Sullivan/PNC Wealth Management

As Vice President and a PNC Wealth Management Investment Advisor, Justin Sullivan develops, communicates and executes tailored investment strategies for clients. He is responsible for managing complex fiduciary, agency and individual retirement accounts, as well as alternative investment product. Justin also works with a team of specialists in financial and estate planning, banking services and trust to help clients achieve their financial objectives.

Prior to his current role, Justin was an Investment Advisor with PNC Wealth Management in Philadelphia, PA. He completed a year-long rotational program for emerging wealth management professionals where he acquired industry skills including investments, wealth planning, estate planning and completed rigorous credit training. Justin managed over $120M in assets for his clients in Philadelphia before relocating to Atlanta in 2013.

Justin lives in the Buckhead area of Atlanta and serves on the Board of Directors for the Fulton County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). He enjoys reading, travel, volunteerism and outdoor activities. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Finance and Economics) degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL PLANNER™.

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