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Tribute to Joe Breiteneicher
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Professional Advisors
From virtually the day he arrived at TPI, Joe was deeply involved in creating TPI's outreach education program to encourage advisors, advisor institutions, and their professional associations to promote philanthropy in their work with clients. Under his leadership, TPI began an organized outreach approach to wealth advisors, seeking to use the experience as a laboratory to test approaches to engage advisors in promoting giving.
New Ventures in Philanthropy
New Ventures in Philanthropy began as a unique initiative of the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers, funded by major national foundations to stimulate local giving in communities around the country. According to Dottie Johnson, former CEO of the Michigan Council on Foundations, "Joe was a founding father of New Ventures, whether giving speeches or cheering from the sidelines. Joe saw the power of many people, who cared about philanthropy, working with others to give of their treasure. Joe always pushed the envelope, his creativity was infectious."
Social Venture Partners
Joe was an early advocate of the Social Venture Partners (SVP) model, started 10 years ago in Seattle with an endowment from Paul Brainerd, inventor of PageMaker software. SVP connects grant making, volunteerism, nonprofit capacity building, and philanthropic education through a network of professionals who believe in investing in their communities based on the venture capital model.
The Melville Charitable Trust and the Partnership to End Long Term Homelessness
Joe's advice to those working on the nation's homeless problem was almost always the same - think bigger. While many working in the homeless "industry" adopted strategies for serving the homeless, Joe was on the front line of those advocating for an approach to ending homelessness, rather than maintaining it.
Community Foundations and the EFP Initiative
In 1994, Joe traveled up and down the roads of Michigan with the Council of Michigan Foundations to help community foundations better realize their potential to reach and serve the new donor community created by the intergenerational transfer of wealth. In Community Foundations and the Coming Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth, co-authored with Kathryn Agard, Joe advocated for community foundations to serve as a catalyst for more and better philanthropy. He worked directly with many CFs over the years on strategic positioning, developing more focused giving programs and cultivating their capacity to better serve donors.
The Road to Venturesome: A Guide to the Habits of More Engaged Donors
The Road to Venturesome is in Joe's words, "a distillation of the philosophical underpinnings and work habits of people who treat their giving with the seriousness, creative energy and discipline that they put into their other investment endeavors." It serves as an exploration and celebration of promising trends and values demonstrated by the emerging "venturesome donor."
Joe-isms
"If all else fails, I'm thinking of one of two options -- play the Franco card (keep me frozen and trot me out for meetings with biggies) or a modest version of Lenin's tomb in our new space (construction is just underway, so there is still time to reconfigure the reception area)."
Celebration of a Life: Joe's Memorial
Description, Transcript and Photos from the event
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