CWP Director Schervish speaks at National Philanthropy Summit
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(9-08-00) Boston College Social Welfare Research Institute Director Paul G. Schervish addressed the National Philanthopy Summit "Sharing the Wealth: Charitable Giving in Prosperous Times" held September 7 and 8 in St. Paul, Minn. The summit -- which continued a discussion begun at the 1999 White House Conference on Philanthropy, which Schervish also attended -- was sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio's Civic Journalism Initiative and MPR's "Sound Money" program.

The summit brought together the nation's leading experts on philanthropy, including top thinkers from academia, government, religious organizations, foundations, corporations, financial institutions and nonprofits as well as individual philanthropists and focused on challenges facing philanthropy in the new economic environment, in which significant charitable giving has become possible for more Americans than ever before.

Schervish, who has spent two decades studying why the wealthy do or do not give, led a session on how philanthropy, and much of American society, will be revolutionized by the "$41 trillion-wealth transfer." As co-author, with SWRI Associate Director John Havens, of the 1999 report "Millionaires and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy," Schervish has been called "the guru of the great wealth transfer," which CWP estimates.