Dennis Bidwell is principal of Bidwell Advisors, a Massachusetts consulting firm specializing in real estate gifts, serving non-profit clients around the country as well as private property owners. Prior to forming Bidwell Advisors, Bidwell was national land protection director at American Farmland Trust, and worked in Boston as vice president of Leggat McCall Advisors, as development officer at National Trust for Historic Preservation, and as program officer at Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Dennis earned his Masters in Business Administration from Boston University (through the Public and Nonprofit Management Program), and his Masters in Education from Harvard University. Mr. Bidwell writes and speaks frequently on topics pertaining to charitable gifts of real estate. He is the 2014 recipient of the Distinguished Advisor in Philanthropy Award from the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.
Charities seek gifts of real estate because they have come to realize that, although more than 30% of the baby boomer wealth transfer that surrounds us is in real estate holdings, less than 3% of charitable giving is made through gifts of real estate. That means that much of the potential for donations to worthy causes is left untapped… Read More
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