Greenspring Advisors Awards $100,000 in Grants, Celebrates 20th Anniversary

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October 18, 2024

 

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Greenspring Advisors Awards $100,000 in Grants, Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Towson, MD, October 18, 2024 – Greenspring Advisors, an independent, fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) that serves individuals and businesses from its offices in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, proudly announces the recipients of the 2024 Greenspring Grant.

Celebrating its 12th year, the Greenspring Grant Committee, comprised of Amir Dreams, CFP®, Monyai Stukes, Jazmine McAlily, Kristina Groff, CFP®, and Alex Buchholz, MBA, AAMS®, awarded a total of $100,000 to 10 organizations committed to addressing workforce and economic development, entrepreneurship, or financial literacy.

The 2024 Greenspring Grant recipients are:

01

Dent Education

Dent Education offers equitable innovation programs with Baltimore youth who ignite their ability to shape the world around them through: entrepreneurial mindsets, social capital, and innovation careers.

02

Future Link, Inc.

Future Link seeks to close the opportunity divide for economically disadvantaged, first-generation-to-college, high potential young adults with additional adversities by providing them with the resources, knowledge, skills, and personalized support needed to achieve their education and career goals.

03

Junior Achievement of South Central PA

Junior Achievement’s goal is to improve student circumstances by giving them a belief in themselves and a sense of purpose.

04

Make Studio

To empower artists with disabilities to grow as professionals with visibility and voice in their communities.

05

Maryland Center for Collegiate Financial Wellness

Foster a continuum of campus-based financial wellness programming and supports that build financial life skills and empower students to thrive.

06

Maryland Council on Economic Education

The mission of the Maryland Council on Economic Education is to assure that Maryland's school children leave high school equipped with the economic and financial literacy knowledge and decision-making skills they will need to make informed, rational decisions as consumers, workers, citizens, savers, investors and participants in the global economy.

07

Philadelphia Financial Scholars

Provide high school students, teachers, and families with the tools needed to develop financial skills, build greater wealth, and achieve financial empowerment.

08

South Ward Promise Neighborhood

Connecting South Ward residents to employment opportunities and facilitating their career success.

09

Springboard Community Services

Transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.

10

The Trinity Center for Community

Demonstrate love in action by respecting the dignity of all, practicing radical hospitality, standing in solidarity with the marginalized, advocating for peace and justice, dismantling structural racism and every system of oppression, embracing inclusivity, maintaining our sacred space as a spiritual and physical sanctuary, and pursuing ecological sustainability.

Amir Dreams, CFP®, the 2024 Grant Committee Chairperson, stated, “It is Greenspring’s enduring pleasure and privilege to support these organizations and their work through our grant program. Organizations like these are often the backbone of their communities, and we hope this program may help foster their prosperity and, in turn, the communities they support.”

Since the inception of the Greenspring Grant Program in 2012, Greenspring Advisors has awarded over $650,000 in grants. Additionally, since its founding in 2004, Greenspring has donated over $1.6 million overall to charitable causes, with a strategic goal of giving away more than $15 million by 2036.

In celebration of these efforts, Greenspring Advisors held their Annual Client Appreciation Event on Thursday, October 17,  where grant recipients received a portion of an additional $20,000 donation. Greenspring’s casino-themed evening invited its clients, colleagues, and community to allocate their casino winnings to the organizations of their choice, determining the proportion of the additional donations made to each grant recipient from Greenspring Advisors.

As they celebrate their 20th anniversary, Greenspring Advisors reflects on two decades of delivering exceptional financial services, fostering client success, and driving industry innovation. Looking ahead, Greenspring remains deeply committed to supporting its communities for many years to come. They are proud to empower organizations through charitable donations and partnerships that create lasting impacts.

For more information about the Greenspring Grant Program, including the mailing list for the application cycle, please visit: https://greenspringadvisors.com/about/giving/grant-program/

About Greenspring Advisors

Established in 2004, Greenspring Advisors was built on the fiduciary principle that the client comes first. Greenspring is an independent, fee-only firm that specializes in holistic and progressive investment advisory services to retirement plan fiduciaries, foundations, and endowments; and comprehensive wealth management services including financial planning for private investors. The firm has offices in MD, NJ, and PA.

Information contained herein has been obtained from sources considered reliable, but its accuracy and completeness are not guaranteed. It is not intended as the primary basis for financial planning or investment decisions and should not be construed as advice meeting the particular investment needs of any investor. This material has been prepared for information purposes only and is not a solicitation or an offer to buy any security or instrument or to participate in any trading strategy. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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