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08/28/2026

What is the future of philanthropy? In a word: innovation.

On Inspired Changemakers, Hannibal Navies shares why he believes philanthropy is whatever you can imagine it to be. With social media giving everyone a platform and sports bigger than it has ever been, athletes have a rare kind of reach.

His vision is to help people understand that a Donor Advised Fund and Fiscal Sponsorship are powerful tools, and that an athlete's platform can turn a passion into lasting community impact.

Hear where Hannibal Navies sees philanthropy going. Click link in bio.

08/26/2026

Before there was Athletes Charitable, there was a single conversation.

On this episode of Inspired Changemakers, Hannibal Navies remembers first hearing about United Charitable and having no idea what fiscal sponsorship or a Donor Advised Fund even was. What started as a dinner and a roundtable turned into late-night calls and texts as the ideas kept coming.

He saw something clearly. If you could put these tools in the hands of athletes, who carry enormous platforms, you could change communities. That idea became Athletes Charitable.

Hear how it all started, with Hannibal Navies. Click link in bio.

08/24/2026

Before the NFL, Hannibal Navies thought he was headed to the Olympics.

On the latest episode of Inspired Changemakers, Hannibal Navies, Vice President of Development for United Charitable and Athletes Charitable, tells Julia Healey he grew up certain he would be a track star, not a football player. It ran in the family. His dad ran the hurdles, earned the nickname "the Flash," and still holds records from his days in Detroit and at Wayne State.

Football was not the plan. Hannibal did not even start playing until ninth grade. But sometimes the path you end up on is not the one you set out for, and it leads somewhere better than you imagined.

Hear more of Hannibal Navies' story. Click link in bio.

08/21/2026

The next generation does not want the private foundation.

Jason Diamond shares something he has seen twice already this year. The first generation built a private foundation. They wanted the structure, the board meetings, all of it.

The second generation has no interest in running one. They are successful in their own right, and they simply want to send money out each year to causes they care about. The foundation never felt soulful to them.

So they are moving to Donor-Advised Funds instead. For advisors serving families through a wealth transfer, that shift is worth paying attention to.

Hear the full conversation with Jason Diamond. Click the link in bio.

08/19/2026

Most advisors do not change until something forces them to.

Jason Diamond has watched it play out. Growth numbers stop landing where they used to. Or a prospect mentions that another advisor talked to them about Donor-Advised Funds, and suddenly the question becomes, should I be offering that?

As he describes it, that fight-or-flight moment is usually when advisors adapt. If it ain't broke, don't fix it stops being true the moment the world tells you it is a little bit broke.

His point, and ours: the better version is having the education conversation up front, before a client is the one who brings it up.

Hear the full conversation with Jason Diamond. Click link in bio.

08/17/2026

Financial planning is table stakes now.

On this episode of Inspired Changemakers, Jason Diamond, President of Diamond Consultants, puts it bluntly. You cannot build a practice on being the advisor who does financial planning, because so does nearly every other advisor in the country.

What separates practices, he argues, is what sits outside the core bundle. Not all advisors offer Donor Advised Funds. Not all of them can have a real conversation about a client's charitable goals.

He sees that as the next frontier, and the thing that will distinguish a strong firm from an average one over the next decade.

Hear the full conversation with Jason Diamond. Click the link in bio.

08/15/2026

If she had unlimited funding, here is what she would do.

Annoica Ingram's answer on Inspired Changemakers is simple. Every girl in third through eighth grade completes at least one season. Every one of them.

And when asked what single message she hopes each girl walks away with, her answer was not about running or finish lines at all.

That they are special. That they are unique. That someone believes in them.

That is the whole thing, really. You can accomplish anything through practice, and someone in your corner telling you so.

08/13/2026

What happens when a girl realizes she has a voice?

Annoica Ingram has watched it happen season after season. On this episode of Inspired Changemakers, she talks about what the research shows: girls come out of the program with more confidence. They raise their hand in class when they might not have before. They try new things. They learn that moving their body makes them feel better, and girls who were not active become active.

As she puts it, these are the things a lot of us wish we had learned earlier in life. These girls are learning them now.

Hear the full conversation with Annoica Ingram. Click the link in bio.

08/11/2026

It started with a flyer in a third grader's backpack.

On the latest episode of Inspired Changemakers, Annoica Ingram explains what Girls on the Run actually is. Over a 10-week season, girls meet twice a week with trained volunteer coaches and work through a curriculum on friendship, healthy choices, conflict resolution, and giving back to their community through a project the girls design themselves.

And the whole time, they are training for something that looks impossible on day one. A 5K.

They all finish it.

Hear the full conversation with Annoica Ingram. Click the link in bio.

08/07/2026

The simplest explanation of a Donor-Advised Fund we have heard.

On Inspired Changemakers, Sarah Baker describes it as a charitable checking account. You set money aside in one place specifically for giving, and when you are ready, you recommend grants from it to the causes you choose.

That is really the appeal. Your giving lives in its own bucket instead of getting tangled up with everything else, and the administrative work is handled for you.

One clarification worth adding: unlike a checking account, a contribution to a Donor-Advised Fund is an irrevocable charitable gift, so those dollars are dedicated to charity from the moment they go in.

Ready to start your own? Open a Donor-Advised Fund with United Charitable. The full episode is live now. Link in bio.

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