Philanthropic Services for Wealth Advisors and Family Offices
Do you want to position yourself or your firm as a go-to expert on charitable planning and philanthropic giving? Do you want to deepen client relationships across multi-generational families?
Advising Engagements
- Expand your wealth management expertise and services
- Establish new client relationships and deepen existing ones
- Retain clients across generations, by engaging the next generation in family philanthropy
- Expand your business
- Maximize the impact of your clients’ giving
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How Kris Can Help
For over 20 years, top global philanthropies have requested Kris Putnam-Walkerly’s help to transform their giving and catapult their impact. As a widely considered, globally recognized philanthropy advisor and award-winning author, she’s helped over 90 philanthropists and foundations strategically allocate and influence over half a billion dollars in grants and gifts.
As a consultant to Family Offices and Wealth Advisors, Kris can assist you in helping your clients achieve their philanthropic goals and dramatically increase their impact.
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Kris Putnam-Walkerly can help:
- Extend the reach and depth of your philanthropic services and client offerings
- Expand your company’s philanthropic expertise
- Advise and coach your team
- Respond to your clients’ philanthropic needs and requests as they arise
- Determine the best giving vehicles for each client
- Offer best practices for effective foundation management
- Serve as a philanthropy speaker at your private client events
- Provide content for your website and newsletters
- Serve as your trusted partner in philanthropy
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Kris Putnam-Walkerly can help your clients through all stages of their philanthropic journey:
- Clarify their philanthropic goals, mission and vision
- Develop long-term strategies for impactful giving
- Serve as a trusted philanthropic advisor, coach and strategic sounding board
- Facilitate strategic philanthropy planning and family retreats
- Research and recommend potential funding areas and best practices
- Develop signature initiatives
- Identify grantees and partners
- Engage the next generation of family members
- Define legacy and prepare for succession planning
- Navigate family dynamics
- Strengthen governance
- Streamline foundation operations
- Provide corporate social responsibility services for their businesses
- Offer a third-party, objective review of philanthropic practices
- Assess impact
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Due to the sensitive nature of client relationships, this work can be done in whatever capacity best suits your needs, and the needs of each individual family or client – from advising you behind-the-scenes, to working as a white-label to your firm, to working directly with clients as a trusted partner. You set the tone for engagement with your clients, and their assets will always remain under your management.
Why Choose Kris?
A globally recognized thought leader in philanthropy, Kris was named one of America’s Top 25 Philanthropy Speakers for the past three years. She is the author of the award-winning book Confident Giving: Sage Advice for Funders; a regular Forbes.com contributor on philanthropy, and authored a chapter on “Transformational Giving: Philanthropy as an Investment in Change” in a new book on impact investing, The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors. In 2017, Kris was inducted into the Million Dollar Consulting® Hall of Fame, one of only 75 consultants chosen worldwide. Kris is also a global content partner to Alliance Magazine, the premier magazine for global giving, and the US philanthropy expert to the leading Dutch philanthropy media outlet De Dikke Blauwe.
Utilizing Kris as a consultant for your family office or wealthy advisory business will allow you to give your clients custom-tailored philanthropic mentoring that will substantially increase their impact.