Feb
11
2025

Tales From the Trenches Tuesdays: Episode 83

February 11, 2025

Episode 83

Episode 83 of Tales From the Trenches Tuesdays again features Malcolm Burrows, a philanthropic advisor and gift planner with 34 years of experience. He leads Scotia Wealth Management’s 100-year-old private foundation services practice. Before joining Scotia he worked for three major Toronto charities from 1990 to 2004 and started his career in the arts.

Malcolm is an active educator, writer, and volunteer in the charitable sector and wealth planning community. Through the Canadian Association of Gift Planners (CAGP), he has contributed to the development of new charitable tax incentives, including the elimination of capital gains on gifts of public securities and the “estate donation” rules. His proposal for gifts of private securities and taxable real estate published by C.D. Howe Institute was included in the 2015 Federal Budget. He was CAGP’s course director from 1999 to 2011 and is a member of the Government Relations Committee

We discuss the “why” versus “how” in giving, as well as the bequest donor’s values.

With a lot of the philanthropists I work with, they lean into organizations, get excited, involved, when there’s that values alignment. They constantly come back and talk about passion, effectiveness… They don’ talk of the mechanics of it at all.
Malcolm Burrows

Just click on the picture of Malcolm below to hear our conversation.

L’chaim,

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