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Podcast: Do Your Good
Episode: #152 What’s the Big Deal About Donor Advised Funds? With Helen Flannery, Director of Research for the Charity Reform Initiative and the Institute for Policy Studies
Description: Helen Flannery joins us to offer her perspective on donor-advised funds (DAFs) and her desire for the need for reforms to ensure the charitable sector's vitality and impact. For example, she discovered that of the top 20 charities in the United States, 11 of the top twenty are DAFs. She wants you to know that most people don’t realize that the top charities in the United States are DAFs. For example, Fidelity Charitable takes in 4 times the contributions as the largest working charity. Helen wants people to know just how big DAFs are becoming and what that means for our ch...