Author: Martha A. Taylor

Sondra Shaw-Hardy is one of the founders of the women”s giving circle movement and cofounder of the Women”s Philanthropy Institute at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. She is the author of Women”s Giving Circles: Reflections From the Founders and coauthor of Youth Giving Circles and Reinventing Fund-raising: Realizing the Potential of Women”s Philanthropy. Martha A. Taylor is a vice president at the University of Wisconsin Foundation where she established the first women”s philanthropy initiative at a public university. She is the cofounder of the Women”s Philanthropy Institute at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and coauthor of Reinventing Fundraising: Realizing the Potential of Women”s Philanthropy. Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz is the communications director at the Association of the Baltimore Area Grantmakers and a founder of the Women”s Giving Circle of Howard County. She is the coauthor of A Plan of One”s Own: A Woman”s Guide to Philanthropy and Growing Philanthropy Through Giving Circles.