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A Birthday to Remember

For Ginny Kuntz, a Vision Trip to the Dominican Republic was a desire that evolved over the space of a year, and though it wasn't intentional, she did spend her 63rd birthday actually taking the trip. "I had reached a point in my giving where I didn't want to just send a check anymore," she said. Ginny met a number of times with her financial advisor, Sally Alspaugh, of Clarus Consulting in Cincinnati, Ohio, and learned about the opportunity to go on a Vision Trip.

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Family Philanthropy

"This area is historically significant as the site of the first land battle of the civil war," Rick observes, "but the people here have been fighting a very different battle recently. This area was home to a thriving coal mining operation that vanished in the 1960s. The sulfur content of the coal was so high that when high-content coal was legislated out of existence, the mines closed and the local population dependent on this industry went from 3% unemployment to 20% unemployment almost overnight. There are families here that have been in a devastating cycle of poverty ever since."

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