Fostering All Forms of Generosity in Communities Across the Nation
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In 2025, your partners at M. Gale are leaning into celebrating and advancing American generosity in all its forms. People and communities nationwide have always pulled together to help those in need. Today, whether it be helping a widespread crisis like the devastating wildfires in and around Los Angeles rendering thousands homeless, a neighbor experiencing illness, a family member, classmate or colleague in need, generosity is all around us.
As members of The Giving Institute and the Giving USA Foundation, M. Gale is excited to advance the work of The Generosity Commission in our north Texas region, kicking off with a free, in-person educational session in March.
The Generosity Commission was launched in 2021 as an independent project of the Giving USA Foundation™, whose mission is to advance research, education, and public understanding of philanthropy. It is a nonpartisan group of leaders from across the charitable sector committed to celebrating and supporting Americans’ spirit of generosity as expressed through everyday giving, volunteering, and other forms of civic engagement. Born out of a desire to better understand the decline in the number of people in America who are giving and volunteering, and its impact on civil society and democracy. Through research and conversations, the Generosity Commission is contributing to a national understanding about how individual givers and volunteers are reimagining generosity in powerful and positive ways.
The Generosity Commission concluded its work in Fall 2024 with recommendations, shared in its final report, here. These recommendations focus on ways that the business, nonprofit, and policy sectors can support and enable everyday giving and volunteering.
Inspired by The Generosity Commission’s findings, M. Gale is launching a new, interactive Executive Education Series on American Generosity. A community service for our nonprofit colleagues and friends, we aim to support exploration of the local philanthropic landscape and how you can inspire generosity wherever you are. We're launching the series with in-person sessions in north Texas.
2025 Executive Education Series: Leaning into American Generosity
March 6, 2025 2:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Learn about The Generosity Commission's findings and recommendations for the nonprofit sector.
Explore, together with other professionals, what the Commission's findings mean for our community.
Discover what it takes to embrace a culture of philanthropy within your work and how this impacts mission advancement.
Contribute to our nonprofit brain-trust on how we can work together to implement the Commission's recommendations for the common good.
If you’d like to hear more about the Generosity Commission’s recommendations, Missy Gale, President & CEO of M. Gale is presenting on this topic at AFP’s Fort Worth Metro Chapter meeting and luncheon on February 10, 2025. For registration and more information, click here.
Generosity in America: Recommendations by the Generosity Commission and what we can do to motivate Americans and increase generosity.
As President and Founder of M. Gale, Missy Gale has dedicated almost three decades to crafting unique strategies and solutions to complex fundraising projects and organizational issues, resulting in transformational fundraising success for her clients. With more than 15 years at the helm of M. Gale, Missy has assisted nonprofits in North Texas and the Southwest in the areas of healthcare, arts and culture, human services, and education. She has been honored as the Outstanding Professional Fundraiser by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Fort Worth Metro chapter and named A Great Woman of Texas by the Fort Worth Business Press. Dedicated both professionally and as a volunteer, Missy is currently serving as a board member of the Giving USA Foundation, and as a committee member for the Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Institute.
Reference: Generosity Commission. (2024). *Generosity Commission Report 2024*. Available at: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.thegenerositycommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DIGITAL_TGC_FullReport_092424.pdf
