Nick Tedesco: Fun & Games with Family Philanthropy

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Fun & Games with Family Philanthropy

Like lots of nonprofit executives, there was a time when Nick Tedesco could only dream about being on the other side of the philanthropy table. Then he got a call from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and everything changed.

But surprisingly, not in the way you might think.

Tapped with helping launch the audacious and ambitious Giving Pledge (wherein billionaires pledge to give away most of their wealth in their lifetimes), Nick was still soliciting – but this time he was asking people if they wanted to be part of a game-changing moment in the history of US philanthropy.

Listen in as he shares what it was like to watch the pledge go viral and how talking to billionaires on behalf of Buffett and Gates paved the way for his work advising and educating wealthy families as CEO of the National Center on Family Philanthropy.

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