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Management

Implementing a philanthropic vision requires diligent oversight of operational and administrative procedures. Philanthropy Advisors’ skilled staff:

  • Represent clients in philanthropic and nonprofit communities in the U.S. and abroad
  • Work cooperatively on clients’ philanthropic planning with their financial advisors and managers, accountants, and lawyers *
  • Coordinate with advisors in their preparation of financial statements and tax returns
  • Negotiate agreements with grantees and transmit payments
  • Administer giving programs
  • Maintain files and records
  • Provide check-writing services and maintain bank accounts
  • Analyze and audit how grant money is used
  • Prepare annual reports and business communications
  • Organize meetings, prepare minutes, and provide clerical assistance
  • Serve as clients’ philanthropic office, providing them with an office address and phone number, as well as meeting rooms

*Philanthropy Advisors is not a repository for donor funds.

“The staff has helped me figure out how to give money strategically and to create a meaningful program of support for organizations working in my areas of interest: the arts, education, and Jewish life. They often represent me at important meetings throughout the City, negotiate terms of major grants on my behalf, and interface with my family office with regard to check writing and transmittal letters. Most important, they have taught me how to say ‘no’ and still keep my friends.”

Laurie M. Tisch
President
The Laurie M. Tisch Foundation

 

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