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Investment Policy Statement, III – The Deeper Questions

Boy! Was I naive!

Kind of like my thinking with respect to estate planning ten years ago, I thought writing an Investment Policy Statement should be pretty straightforward. All I needed, I thought, was some professional help to give me the right words.

But I’ve discovered that is not the case at all–a discovery that is both frustrating (because it means I have a lot more work to do!) and happy at the same time (because I made the discovery; I haven’t made any more foolish or irrevocable mistakes in this area . . . yet).

Way beyond getting the “right words” on paper, Sarita and I need to answer some very fundamental questions–questions far deeper than the average investment advisor is likely to ask or help us answer. Read the rest of this entry »

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A more finessed perspective on moving to 501(c)(3)

And while I’m talking with people at Generous Giving about alternatives to 501(c)(3)s, C____, the attorney we engaged for–and then quickly sought to disengage from–our potential move to 501(c)(3) status, sent a reply to my “disengagement” email. As you may recall, I said, “Before we (i.e., you and your associates) go anywhere [with this idea of researching potential charitable purposes for a 501(c)(3)], . . . I sense I should raise a few questions that came up from a conversation I had yesterday with L____, our CPA.”

So here’s how she replied: Read the rest of this entry »

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