The Hon. Kristin Booth Glen is a former judge, having served on the NYS Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department, and Surrogate’s Court, and was Dean of CUNY School of Law. More recently, she directed a successful, Trust-funded advocacy campaign, led by Hunter College, that resulted in legislation giving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities statewide the right to make their own decisions with the support of trusted people in their lives.
“Over the past 30 years, I’ve interacted with The Trust in so many ways. I’ve seen the impact of The Trust’s competitive grantmaking, and an article on donor-advised funds in one of The Trust’s recent publications completely changed the way I’m doing my admittedly modest estate planning.
I have worked with The Trust on issues as diverse as improving legal education, increasing access to the profession for members of historically underserved communities, and improving the court system. The funding that The Trust has given to all of these causes has been impactful, catalytic, and truly transformative.
The people who work for The Trust, and especially the program officers that I’ve come to know, are extraordinarily talented, thoughtful, creative, committed, and possess enormous expertise.
You could not find anyone, anywhere, better to steward your assets—or the assets of your clients if you are a professional advisor—and to make an impact.
What I’ve recently come to understand is that what’s amazing and unique about The Trust is that it not only provides capacity for nonprofits to improve the lives of vulnerable people, but it also provides the opportunity for people with wealth to use that wealth efficiently, creatively, and quite economically to advance the charitable goals that are most important to them. And sometimes they provide solutions that you might not have thought about.
The Trust can be as valuable to a professional advisor’s clients—whether they’re individuals, small trusts, or family foundations—as The Trust has been to the New Yorkers who benefit from its grantmaking. Time and again, I’ve seen how The Trust has been able to make the world a better place.”