The MIT Office of Gift Planning’s twice-yearly webinar series aims to illuminate the opportunities around timely topics and engages top experts to answer your big questions about how they affect your finances. In 2025, many questions loom around how new congressional trends may affect philanthropic giving.
The speakers in the webinar that took place on March 26, 2025, titled “Planning Your Postelection Philanthropy,” tackled these questions head-on, both in their presentations and in a live Q&A session with attendee-submitted questions. Michelle Hanlon, Howard W. Johnson Professor, professor of accounting, and deputy dean for faculty and research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Brad Bedingfield, partner at Hemenway & Barnes LLP, presented on the current legislative environment in Washington, DC, and how potential changes to tax law could impact to philanthropic giving for donors. Topics included:
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