Nathan Dungan:
Generosity & Financial Sanity 3-1-1
“The choices we make with our money can change the world.”
Nathan Dungan, founder and president of Share Save Spend invited us to repeat this phrase aloud three times during his presentation on Multi-Generational Philanthropy to MFC board, members, staff and guests in at MFC’s Annual General Meeting held in April 2009 in Calgary, Alberta. He uses this phrase, he says, “because it is asprirational and optimistic. The current economic climate,” Dungan is convinced, “provides a unique opportunity, a teachable moment, to reframe the values around money which may help to develop new skills and habits for “doing money” in all generations.”
In order to take advantage of this moment, Dungan asserts that we need to move from believing that money is purely transactional to interactional. Money as transaction – paying bills, managing retirement funds, investing, etc. are certainly valuable and important, but of equal value is money as interaction which includes stories, culture, relationships, values, heritage stories, morals, mentoring and generosity.