Waypoint Insurance - Risk & Business Magazine VIIC Fall 2015 | Page 19

What is Altruvest and how did you get involved?
Another one of the life planning processes I suggest
is making a list of everything you would want to do
before you pass on. There is also a subsection to that of
making a list of things that you want to look back on in
your life and see that you’ve accomplished as you lie on
your deathbed. The question would be, “If I were to lie
on my deathbed, I’m going to look back and see…”
A goal of mine that I set out many years ago was to create
a charitable foundation that would help make the world
a better place through breaking the cycles of poverty for
many generations to come. That’s all types of poverty.
When I sold my first business in 1992 with the goal of
creating enough time and money to start this charitable
foundation, the burning question became how do we help
charities become better at giving more effectively, more
efficiently, or just more in the aggregate. In asking that
question and working through the courses that I did with
the leaders from the charitable sector, I came to understand
and learn that charities really have a lot to offer business
leaders and business leaders have a lot to offer charities.
The idea of Altruvest was to build a bridge between the
charitable sector and the business sector such that the
business leaders can provide support, help, and resources
to the charitable sector, and the charit