COLORADO WEST ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL

We will have Dan Sharp, Director Nutritional Services for D51 tell us about the Lunch Lizard and the Mesa County Mobile Summer Food Program: "Feeing hungry kids... one neighborhood at a time"

We will also have Daniel Blake and Jefferson Hunter from University Impact speak on Donor Advised Funds and Impact Investing opportunities. Highlighting how these ideas can help our clients in this unprecedented environment both from a tax and a philanthropy point of view. 

Daniel Blake: 

Daniel is the Managing Director at University Impact, a nonprofit, impact investing firm; his background is in building and scaling startups. He started his first company, EcoScraps, in 2010 and sold it to Scott’s Miracle Gro.

Daniel’s has been on the board for two companies that have sold to publicly traded companies; his companies have created marketing campaigns that have driven millions of engagements in a matter of weeks, creating stories that garnered national (cover story for Inc., Forbes, stories on Discovery Channel, etc.), and have led to deals with groups including: the US State Dept., United Nations World Food Programme, Amazon, Google, some of the world’s largest food companies etc. Daniel has done business with Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Amazon etc. His products have sold approx. $100 million in retail sales.

Jefferson Hunter:

Jefferson is a Senior Associate at University Impact. He first became involved with the impact space when he started Itara Solar, a nonprofit in Rwanda providing solar lanterns and children's books to primary schools. Jefferson's background has been in finance, working with Excell Partners, a hard-tech and healthcare focused venture capital firm in Upstate New York. Jefferson earned his bachelor's degree in finance from Brigham Young University and his MBA from the University of Rochester. 

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