By guest blogger Christine Owens, a senior associate at BCC & Associates and adjunct professor at Columbia University, teaching in the graduate program of Non-Profit Management.
The CIVIC generation (born 1901-1924) is well known for its charitable generosity and volunteer activity. Members of the ADAPTIVE generation ( born 1925-1942) are transferring tremendous personal wealth to both their children and charitable institutions, and the IDEALIST generation ( born 1942-1960) is engaged by hands – on charitable and volunteer efforts that is part of a grand moral movement such as Habitat for Humanity. This is according to Charles L. Eastman, “Philanthropic Cultures of Generational Archetypes.”
Christine Owens, a senior associate at BCC & Associates, has 30 years of broad-based experience in non-profit management and fundraising. She is a specialist in strategic planning, board training and development, capital campaigns, corporate relations and major gifts. She has held senior positions in campaigns raising millions of dollars for institutions and organizations such as, Georgetown University, Catholic University of America, Washington University’s Medical Center in St. Louis, Brooklyn Hospital, American Chemical Society, and the Potomac School. Christine is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, teaching in the graduate program of Non-Profit Management. COwens@BCC-associates.com