Charity promoted to high net worth investors
Howard Lake | 1 April 2001 | News
The number of companies offering donor-advised funds continues to grow. In the USA Villanova Capital, the asset management arm of Nationwide Financial, has launched a Web-based, “multi-investment option charitable giving program to tap further into its primary market of high-net-worth investors.”
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The number of companies offering donor-advised funds continues to grow. In the USA Villanova Capital, the asset management arm of Nationwide Financial, has launched a Web-based, “multi-investment option charitable giving program to tap further into its primary market of high-net-worth investors.”
High net worth investors, like the “mass affluent,” are attracting both financial service companies but also professional philanthropy advisers. This three-sided relationship of financial service company, wealthy individual, and philanthropic adviser has already become a noticeable trend, both in the USA and UK.
Read Nationwide’s Fund Arm Readies Web-based Charitable Giving by Julie Segal at Fund Action. Find out more about the peer-group pressure involved in some giving by wealthy individuals in Downhill philanthropy: Skiing, competition metaphors for donating by Mark Ritchie at SiliconValley.com.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.