Hello and welcome to Giving Ventures, a show to help you grow your giving and change the world for the better.

Our conversations with social entrepreneurs and generous philanthropists highlight innovative charitable efforts and smart ways to have more impact with your giving.

I'm your host, Peter Lipset, Vice President at Donors

Trust. This show is a production of Donors Trust, the oldest and largest donor advised fund

focused on serving conservative and libertarian donors of all capacities to simplify, protect,

and grow their giving. My colleagues and I talk with a lot of groups doing

great work. With Giving Ventures, we can share a bit of what we learn with you. At Donors Trust,

we talk a lot about donor intent. But what is donor intent? What do we mean when we use those words?

Well, recently, we hosted a webinar for clients and prospective clients

focused on this idea of donor intent, what it is, how donors should think about it, and how it

factors in to one's legacy planning more broadly. It was a great conversation. We had great

attendance on it, and so I wanted to share

it with you, with this broader audience, so that we could help some more people around this

really important concept. You know, when we think about donor intent, we think about failures

of donor intent. We're also often thinking about Pew Foundation, Carnegie, Ford, these great philanthropists who, if they saw

their foundations today, would be shocked at what it is doing because it's so different than some

of the beliefs that we know they held when they were alive. But you don't have to be a billionaire

to have your donor intent go astray. That's why it's so important to really

understand what it is and have it locked up tight. So in this webinar, you're going to first hear

the voice of Lawson Bader, Donors Trust president and CEO as he kicks things off and introduces

us. And then I will take over the interviewing reins of Kim Dennis. Kim is

Donor's Trust co-founder and still the board chair here and is an expert in what it takes to really

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