21 - What’s Your Giving Game Plan? | Steve Kaloper

Countless people want to give generously to causes and non-profit organizations locally and internationally but they just don’t know where to look or how to start. Sometimes, the lack of knowledge and indecision leads to unpleasant giving experiences, hesitation to give, or inability to give at all. It is therefore important for individuals, couples, families, or organizations to have a giving plan to causes and nonprofits that speak to their hearts and minds and that reflect their values and interests.

Our guest, Steve Kaloper of DoingGoodBetter, joins us today to shed some light on some issues and challenges about wealth and asset stewardship, and philanthropy. He maintains that having a giving plan is just as crucial as having a business plan for corporate and financial pursuits. If you‘re one of those people afflicted by analysis paralysis in charitable giving or if you just want to be a smarter and more strategic giver who wants to understand how your contribution makes a difference, this episode is for you. Click now and start listening.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Steve shares his personal and family background.
• Steve opens up about his personal mission work and shares his life's mission purpose statement.
• Steve’s early career and early involvement in mission work.
• Why it is important to have a family conversation about wealth and assets as well as about stewardship and giving.
• What has been the pivotal moment that God used to change Steve’s heart about stewardship, giving, and dedicating his life to mission work?
• What has been the most surprising thing that Steve has learned in his kingdom-centric journey?
• How does Steve help individuals, couples, and families in identifying and crafting their giving plan?
• What does Steve think is the biggest barrier to unlocking that kingdom capital?
• Steve talks about DoingGoodBetter, the giving foundation he started with his wife Shannon.
• Steve answers the lightning-round questions.

Tweetables:

"I love being able to get people together. I feel that that's what God's given me as a calling.”

“There’s an unbelievable hunger for men to figure out how to do life with their spouse and to have their wife involved in doing good and stewardship.”

“The conversation is going to take place about wealth and assets. It just depends if it's going to take place over the coffin or on the kitchen table. It's up to us to decide.”

“Recognizing that we have just been given a talent, and we should put it to good use. Recognizing that our talent is 100% God's, our resources are 100% God's and that the time that we've been blessed with is God's timing and it can be taken away at any second. And so, maximize it. That to me is the trigger, so unleash it.”

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Doing Good Better

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About Steve Kaloper

As founder and CEO of DoingGoodBetter & Development Services Group, Steve partners with non-profit organizations both domestically and internationally. He also serves high-capacity families with an investment banking model for philanthropy. Steve has over 20 years of experience in marketing, developing strategic relationships in the private, public and non-profit sectors having served over 600 organizations and families globally. In 2010, Steve and Shannon started their giving fund, The DoingGoodBetter Foundation. In 2015, he authored his first book, “The Journey Into DoingGoodBetter!” As Co-Founder and CEO of the Kingdom Capital Group, Steve developed the concept of Impact Philanthropy, a results-oriented approach to giving—and a key aspect of the New Wave of Philanthropy.