Philanthropy is about more than making charitable contributions. It is about living according to your values and supporting what matters most to you.
Strategic Philanthropy &
Giving with Passion and Purpose
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Philanthropy offers a unique opportunity to enrich your life, establish or continue a tradition of giving, share your skills and experience and unite your family around a common purpose. It begins with what matters most to you.
Your advisor can bring you our broad suite of philanthropic services to help you maximize the benefit of your charitable contributions — for the causes you support, for your sense of personal fulfillment and to help ensure that your giving fits seamlessly with your other financial goals. This approach can enable you to share your financial success with others and create a lasting legacy of giving.
My name is Gillian Howell and I am the private philanthropy executive for U.S. Trust.
A lot of our clients today, treat their philanthropy almost like a business. So they’ve earned their wealth in a certain way and they want to be able to give it away and actually have impact.
It’s all about choices and so you make a choice first of all to give, and then how to give, what to give, who to give to. These are really important choices with significant consequences and people need help with that. And that’s where we can step in and really help them. We’ve got the expertise, and we’ve got the breadth of services and resources to help them navigate all of those choices.
People are interested in the tax benefits of giving and that is a very complex area. And if that’s all they need, that’s what we can help with; just give them advice. If they actually need us to implement and start a foundation for them, or a donor advised fund for them, we can do that also. And then we can also run that foundation for them. All of that kind of back office work is done by us, so it frees them up for the joy of giving.
One of the most fulfilling things for a client, but also one of the most fulfilling things for us in this business, is to help them achieve their objectives, and help them achieve their goals in philanthropy, and to actually see that change.
And we’ve seen that, for an example of that is where you’re supporting a program that helps inner city kids. Thirty children are engaged in that program, they’re working on a shoestring in the non-for profit, they barely have enough money to keep this program going, and a year later that program now has 300 kids in that program, and they’re engaged every day, benefiting from it, changing lives. And for you to go to that non-for profit and see the joy on the faces of those children, you know you’re achieving something major in their lives. But also your lives are changed by it.
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Many of our clients today treat their philanthropy almost like a business. The decision to give involves many complex choices : when to give, who to give to, how to give, and what to give. U.S. Trust has the breadth of services and depth of resources to help you navigate these complex choices.
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| Are Not FDIC Insured |
Are Not Bank Guaranteed |
May Lose Value |
Bank of America, N.A., and U.S. Trust Company of Delaware (collectively the “Bank”) do not serve in a fiduciary capacity with respect to all products or services.
Fiduciary standards or fiduciary duties do not apply, for example, when the Bank is offering or providing credit solutions, banking, custody or brokerage products/services or referrals to other affiliates of the Bank.
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