Building Generosity That Lasts Generations With Gretchen Duda

Gretchen Duda is a Financial Advisor and Certified Financial Planner practitioner at Advent Partners, a financial planning team that helps clients simplify their financial journeys and plan for meaningful generosity. Gretchen focuses on building financial plans and helping clients explore giving strategies that align with their goals. She also contributes to Advent's client education efforts through market and economic updates that help investors stay informed and ready for what's ahead. In this episode… Generosity that lasts for generations is usually built through more than a single gift. It grows through conversations, repeated choices, and the values people model for those around them. How can families turn generosity into something that continues long after one moment of giving? Building lasting generosity begins when giving becomes a practice people share, not just a transaction they complete. As a financial advisor and planner, Gretchen Duda helps clients think through how their resources can support the causes, people, and values they care about now and in the future. Tools like donor-advised funds can invite children and grandchildren into giving decisions, while everyday acts of time, presence, and kindness keep generosity from becoming only about money. Gretchen's insight shows that generational generosity is strongest when it is planned with intention and lived out in ordinary moments. In this episode of You Can't Take it With You, Jim Dunlop is joined by Gretchen Duda, Financial Advisor at Advent Partners, to discuss building generosity that lasts generations. Gretchen talks about generosity of spirit, donor-advised funds, and spontaneous giving. She also shares how qualified charitable distributions and everyday kindness can help people give with purpose.