Welcome to Purposely SHORT, a weekly episode, featuring one of our friends or past guests and their expertise on a certain topic.
This weeks episode features Richard Spackman CEO at Aoraki Foundation.
Richard and host Mark Longbottom discuss the Community Foundation Movement and their potential for long-term sustainable impact. Richard emphasises the importance of scaling a community foundation start-up to a certain size to ensure its self-sustaining growth, he shares that Aoraki Foundation is aiming for an endowment of $30 million by 2030. He also shares how he has used his commercial mindset in philanthropic leadership setting, advocating for investment in the organisation for growth rather than focusing solely on expenses. Richard shares how he has set up a fund with Aoraki Foundation promoting financial literacy for children and young people and the importance of integrating financial education into the school system.
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