“Atlas Daughters is a social venture that I launched…We create an incredibly experiential, immersive experiences that are related to Travel. So travel experiences from mothers, female funders and their children or grandmothers and mothers and their children and grandchildren to go and participate in incredibly impactful work that NGOs are doing, specific tangible projects that are worthy of investment and ripe for scale. We bring families to those projects….We identify NGOs that have these incredible projects that are worthy of investment….They may have a very efficient and effective project that they’ve developed that has the potential to really change millions of lives or to make a huge impact on sustainability or biodiversity or any climate related or Health related issues. “

Amy Dorbusch on Electric Ladies Podcast

Women invest, spend and donate differently than men do, and with the great wealth transfer putting trillions more Money into women’s hands over the next 30 years, it’s important to understand new models women are using. So, today we’re going to hear from a woman at the center of new ways of donating that merge lessons from Investing and entrepreneurship.

Listen to Amy Dornbusch, Founder/CEO of Atlas Daughters, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Investor in this enlightening conversation with Electric Ladies Podcast host Joan Michelson.

You’ll hear about:

● The new business models for philanthropy that women, Gen Zrs and Millennials are developing.

● How women tend to donate and invest differently than men do and why

● What the great wealth transfer is and how it could dramatically affect the Economy.

● Plus, career advice, such as:

“Don’t be discouraged by the people that are not your people…Don’t seek validation from people’s whose values are different than yours. Seek validation in the people whose values are aligned with yours and who you look up to. Those are your people. And find your people because your people will encourage you in every way possible. And I also believe that second acts are often more impactful than the first acts. So when you get to this stage in life and you combine your life experience with your networks, your resources, and your perspective, the amount of impact that you can have later in life will be exponential….I think most middle aged women should feel that they’re just getting started.” Amy Dornbusch on Electric Ladies Podcast

You’ll also like:

· Women’s Trillions Drive New Economic Values – with Silvia Bastante de Unverhau, LGT Private Bankers International

· Scaling Donations – with Kate Williams, CEO of 1% for the Planet

· Philanthro-Activism – with Justin Winters, CEO/Founder of One Earth

· Creativity & Relationships Secure Grants – with Megan Pater, CEO/Founder of Fund Nation and ECE Solutions

· Climate Philanthropy – with Heather Grady, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

· What America’s Largest Bottler Thinks About Plastic – Ann Canela, Head of Niagara Cares, the Philanthropic Arm of Niagara Water

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