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.

Next year is a milestone birthday for the United States of America,

as the country marks 250 years of being the world's greatest experiment.

You're going to see a massive uptick soon in discussion around this, and you're going to hear some of that right here on

giving ventures. We're going to poke at it in a number of different ways. You know, it's a great

moment for the country. There are plenty of countries don't make it this far, and if they do,

it's often a radically different form than the original plan.

But the great vision document of America, the Declaration of Independence, still remains strong.

It had a great list of to-do action items, including kicking out a king, and we did them,

and the vision is still there for us to follow.

So how should we be thinking about the Declaration and our nation more broadly here at 250 years?

That is a question that a group of scholars and donors and influencers asked themselves last year

in a small group discussion in where else in Philadelphia.

And one of the leaders of that group is Jay LaPierre. Jay is a businessman, a generous

philanthropist to many liberty causes. He's president of Latrum, which is a diverse company

that does all sorts of things, from plastic conveyor belting to high-speed package sorting,

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