Planning Giving Tip: Save Your Community

Jobs are always a popular subject…not just for the employed. Successful local businesses drive a vibrant local economy…which is essential for every community. People and businesses provide the tax dollars that are the “fuel” that supports the schools, police and fire departments, and other services. In addition to businesses, churches and charities play a vital role as well…compassion. Local people …

Planned Giving Tip: Families That Last

The statistics overwhelmingly show that families of means lose their wealth by the third generation. Only 3 out of 100 family-owned businesses survive three generations. American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie wrote, “three generations in America from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.” In the 1700s, the phrase “clogs to clogs in three generations” expressed the same reality. With the dissolution …