Meet the Philanthropist: Interview with Avery T. Fontaine
Overview
Yolanda speaks with Avery T. Fontaine on family-giving philanthropy, investing across generations and being a woman in the workplace.
“I think when it comes to funding women and girls, we don’t really have, in my open, a good handle on how to solve the problem.”
Interview Highlights
How philanthropy needs to evolve to address racial and gender equity
Educate women to become “one-pocket thinkers”— values drive behaviors around spending, giving, investing and etc.
On the funding overall
Address the root cause of bias
Address the long-held misconceptions of nonprofits’ funding capacity
On impactful family-giving philanthropy
It’s not long how many giving transactions organizations can get from families but rather, “do we understand this family?”
The skills of the future are empathy and communications (writing and speaking well) and then translating to building relationships.
INTERVIEW GUEST
Avery T. Fontaine
Head of Philanthropy & Impact, PNC Private Bank Hawthorn
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