Leveraged Philanthropy

Collaborating with professional advisors to deliver leveraged windfalls to qualified charities

Leverage is the use of a small sum of money, credit, or borrowed funds to (i) gain a very high return in relation to one's initial sum of money or (ii) to control a much larger asset.

Philanthropy is the altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, or by the endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes. The origin of the word "philanthropy" is the Greek word "philanthropia" which means "love of mankind."

Leveraged Philanthropy is a strategy whereby a small initial outlay generates a significantly higher return to community.

Lis4cg works in concert with the benefactor's altruistic instincts to generate a highly probable substantive return on capital that provides significant long-term financial benefits to worthwhile organizations and causes.

Lis4cg's fundraising endeavors get ignited through the virtuous and multitudinous deeds of the professional advisors alliance. Each charitable organization is unique and there is certainly much more to the long-term sustainability of the organization than financial capital. Most certainly, human and intellectual capital usurps financial capital. At the organic level, Lis4cg strives to understand the tangible and intangible benefits that accrue to the charitable organization and its community by acts of philanthropy. With the help and guidance of the community's professional advisors, Lis4cg's bow and arrow is aimed directly at donors who contemplate acts of philanthropy. By substituting life insurance for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, these donors are able to leverage and maximize their philanthropic nature.

Lis4cg shares a common cause with professional advisors in that both are harmoniously aligned to help clients experience the joys and benefits of charitable giving. Lis4cg commits itself to a few extraordinarily important but underfunded issues; a doctrine that it believes offers the highest probability of achieving goals of great consequence.

An example will suffice. A benefactor engaged Lis4cg to evaluate their charitable estate plan. An in-depth evaluation ensued which open the gates for a major gift being consummated for a charitable organization. This particular organization shares common values with Lis4cg. Consequently, Lis4cg has elected to commit significant resources in common cause with the organization's strategic capital development plan. Henceforth, Lis4cg is formulating a strategic plan to underwrite several hundred million dollars of life insurance over the next several years that will ultimately provide a windfall to this institution. Lis4cg is approaching this lofty endeavor by pragmatically developing a strategic plan that will invoke an unparalleled spirit of cooperation amongst community leaders, professional advisors, the charitable organization and benefactors.