Welcome to Promenade Speaker's Bureau

Paul Schervish: Wealth Transfer & Philanthropy Speaker

•           Director, Center on Wealth and Philanthropy and Professor, Boston College
•           Regularly speaks and consults on how to surface and analyze the moral biographies of wealth holders, on the motivations for charitable giving, and on the spirituality of financial life
•         Co-Authored seminal philanthropy research: Millionaires and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy. This examination of the strategies of living and giving among 130 millionaires estimates the wealth transfer over the next half century to be between $41 trillion and $136 trillion.
•           Co-authored 2001-High Tech Donors Study revealed the strategies of wealth accumulation and allocation, described as agent-directed wealth and philanthropy.
•     Completing work on The Modern Medici: Strategies of Philanthropy Among the Wealthy.
•         Topics include: The Next Generation of Philanthropists: The Money, Meaning, and Motives, Charity and Identity:  The Organic Ethics of Philanthropy and The Spiritual Meaning, Strategic Practice, and Fundraising Mission of Philanthropy.