Foundation for Financial PlanningOverview

Who We Are

Our mission is to help people take control of their financial lives by connecting the financial planning community to people in need.

We are the nation’s only nonprofit charity solely devoted to supporting the delivery of pro bono financial planning.

We help make it possible for financial planners to provide free, no-strings-attached advice and guidance to people who otherwise would lack access to quality services.

What We Do

•We provide grants to local, regional and national nonprofits to support programs linking financial planners to people who need help. Since our founding, we have provided over 300 grants totaling more than $6 million. Grantee programs have served more than 380,000 people and have included over 58,000 personalized, one-on-one financial planning sessions

•We help recruit, engage and connect volunteer planners to needy people in their communities, working with partners like the Financial Planning Association. To date, over 15,000 professionals have volunteered, amounting to 157,000 volunteer service hours valued at over $ 31 million.

What We Do

•We develop new and innovative program models with key partners to reach populations where we can have a particularly strong impact, i.e. military/veteran families and families affected by cancer.•We provide financial planning resources free-of-charge to people in need and the volunteers who help them, including training and best practices for volunteer planners, and worksheets and guidebooks for pro bono clients. •We raise the visibility of the profession’s commitment to pro bono through leveraging key partnerships, conference and speaking engagements, digital and traditional media, and more.

Who We Serve

We aim to reach high-need individuals around the country, particularly those facing unusually difficult and unexpected circumstances.

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Why Financial Planning?

The pro bono work we make possible goes beyond financial literacy to provide one-on-one, free, expert guidance on people’s most challenging money issues. Our focus on one-on-one sessions, sometimes combined with financial

education seminars, means that the financial planner is able to tailor his or her advice to the individual’s specific financial and life circumstances

The program participant is able to freely discuss challenges in a confidential, supportive setting

The financial planner can spot issues and offer solutions that a person taking a literacy class often cannot come to on their own

Program participants usually receive a “roadmap” for moving forward, with concrete action steps to improve their financial life

Where We Are Headed

With a recent move from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., we have a new team in place and have embraced a new vision: to DOUBLE our impact over the next three years.

We will do this by…1. Increasing grant-making to community-based organizations connecting

financial planners to people in crisis or need. 2. Growing the ranks of volunteer planners by improving training tools,

developing new incentives, and better communicating impact. 3. Developing new partnerships and program models to better reach

people in crisis and serve them more effectively.4. Raising the visibility of pro bono work within the profession and sharing

with the public the financial planning community’s commitment to giving back.

Strategic Partnerships

Partners in a Powerful New Chapter • At this turning point in the Foundation’s history, we are actively

committed to driving more impact and building national philanthropic and programmatic partnerships that can help take our efforts to the next level.

• The Foundation aims to raise the profile of pro bono within the financial services industry by:• aligning with key corporate players whose public support of pro

bono can create widespread influence within the profession, and by • amplifying the often untold stories of volunteer financial

planners and the incredible impact on the people they serve, a particularly important message during a time of political and economic divisions.

Board of Trustees

We are governed by a volunteer board of independent financial planners and leaders in key companies that serve the industry.

2017 Board Members:

Alexandra Armstrong, CFP®Armstrong, Fleming & MooreElissa Buie, CFP®Yeske Buie, Inc. Lazetta Braxton, MBA, CFP®Financial FountainsMarilyn Capelli Dimitroff, CFP®Planning Alternatives Bernie ClarkSchwab Advisor Services

Terri Fiedler AIG Financial DistributorsKacy Gott, CFP®, CPA(Incoming Chairman)Meritas Wealth ManagementKate HealyTD Ameritrade InstitutionalKristina Hooper, CFP®Allianz Global Investors Scott Kahan, CFP®Financial Asset Management Corporation

Trisha MillerW. P. Carey Inc. Dan Moisand, CFP®Moisand Fitzgerald TamayoBob OrosFidelity Institutional Wealth ServiceLaura Tarbox, CFP®The Tarbox Group, Inc. Stewart H. Welch, CFP®The Welch Group, LLC

Foundation Staff

Jon Dauphiné, Executive DirectorKatie Hammer, Development & Communications

Amira Tart, Programs & GrantsTim Ingerick, Operations & Administration

Phone: 202.864.5183Email: Mail@FoundationforFinancialPlanning.org