Bio

About Charles B. Maclean, PhD

Founder & Chief Committed Listener, PhilanthropyNow

Favorite Giving Experience

Sponsoring a Dallas Youth At Risk, working one-on-one with him and being willing to coach and be coached.

Favorite Asking Experience

Teaming to create the "Giant Step Ahead" fundraiser that underwrote the development of the national board exam in emergency medicine.

Role Models For Giving

My Mom who held down three jobs to keep the family together and yet always gave of her time, talent, and dollars and expected me to do the same. My Scoutmaster Howard Elliott who always made time to listen and coach. George Soros whose “no’s” gave meaning to his “yes’s” in giving.

Favorite Philanthropy Quotes

"It is through giving that we discover who we are...and what matters to us" and "There are no luggage racks on a hearse."

Education

PhD, Michigan State University in Administration of Higher Education focused on diffusion of innovations and medical education; MA, Michigan State University in Guidance and Counseling; BS, Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh in Psychology and Business Administration

Publications/Interviews/News Notes That Have Referenced Or Published The Work Of PhilanthropyNow:

Giving Support Tools

v	“PhilanthropyNow: Seeding The New Generation of Entrepreneurial Givers”™
v	“Protocol for Ethical Cause-Related Marketing”™
v	“Tool Kit For Accelerating Giving”™
v	“Giver Mission Coaching Kit”™
v	“Creating Preferred Scenarios For The Future of Giving”™
v	“Report Card for Rating Giving Opportunities”™
v	“Better Donor Allocation In Half The Time”™ (self-assessment tool and keypad technology for facilitated decision making)

Current Areas of Inquiry

Inspiring and branding giving as a way of living, donor debriefings, Legacies of the Philanthropy Coaches, exploring "Are we hard wired to give?" and donor dollar allocation decision making software.

Recent Service & Research

Traveled for six months on a philanthropy journey sharing and learning best giving and asking practices from Atlanta to Auckland, San Francisco to Singapore, Dallas to Sydney, Lansing to Melbourne.

Supporter and participant in the Uplift Academy

Recognition

v	Nominated with co-author Jana Green for the Independent Sectors’ Virginia A. Hodgkinson 2001 Philanthropy Research Prize
v	Appointed to National Clergy Committee Advisory Group
v	Trustee, International Mankind Foundation

Contact Information:
Email: advocate@philanthropynow.com Tel: 503.297.1490
Website: www.philanthropynow.com

This Page Last Updated December 2, 2005