Disruptive Philanthropy:

A Guide to Donor Advised Funds

Wish You Had A Better Understanding of Donor-Advised Funds?

Confused about how to attract and steward donor advised fund gifts?

Worried your organization may be at legal risk for its recording and handling of these gifts?

Disruptive Philanthropy: A Guide to Donor Advised Funds is the resource for you!

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Donor Advised Funds are now mighty players in philanthropy.

But how do they work?

Who are donor advised fund account holders?

How can you cultivate this group of donors?

Answer all these questions and more when you purchase Disruptive Philanthropy: A Guide to Donor Advised Funds

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What's Inside

Table Of Contents

The 61-page guidebook includes ten chapters:

Chapter 1 | The Anatomy of a Donor Advised Fund
Chapter 2 | Innovations
Chapter 3 | Profile of a DAF Holder
Chapter 4 | How To Be Ready For DAFS
Chapter 5 | Solicitating DAF Holders
Chapter 6 | The Advantages
Chapter 7 | Interview With Chuck Collins
Chapter 8 | The Disadvantages
Chapter 9 | Interview With John Taylor
Chapter 10 | Conclusion
Special Features
- Two interviews with experts in the field
- Bibliography with more than 90 hyperlinked resources

About The Author

Elisa Shoenberger is a Research Consultant at Aspire Research Group. She has over ten years of experience in the fundraising sector working as a prospect researcher at Loyola University Chicago and benchmarking analyst at Grenzebach Glier and Associates.

Elisa earned her MBA in marketing and operations management from Loyola, a MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and a BA in history from the University of Chicago.

She has written about philanthropy for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Inside Philanthropy, Brainfacts.org, the Daily Dot, Rewire (PBS affiliate), and others. She has also written for the Boston Globe, Huffington Post, and Business Insider. She writes regularly for Book Riot, Loop North News, and Sixty Inches from Center. In her spare time, she plays alto saxophone.

Learn from Practitioners and Experts in the Field
Elisa Shoenberger takes a journalistic approach to the topic, interviewing experts and practitioners. Two full-length interviews are also included.
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Coverage includes the fundamentals of cryptocurrency and NFTs, how to manage the gifts, and also lays out the advantages and disadvantages so you can make sound policy and procedure decisions.
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