Grant Whitney is the Asst. Vice President, Gift Planning at Mass General Hospital. He joined MGH as Senior Director of Gift Planning in October 2022. In May 2023 he was tapped to provide vision and leadership for a team of 10 across the long standing full service gift planning program. Currently, Grant is responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of the Gift Planning program including growing and expanding its revenues, managing and marketing of the program for both internal and external audiences, and overseeing the trust and estate gift program and the administration of life income gifts and bequests. Grant applies a background in alternative dispute resolution to philanthropic planning with donors, and friends interested in creating family meaning. He is an experienced charitable gift planner with a history of growing philanthropic support and strengthening relationships with institutional supporters. This includes closing complex major gifts with cutting edge philanthropic vehicles and strategies that account for the changing nature of wealth holding. He brings demonstrated success in high stakes Capital Campaigns. And, he delivers philanthropic advising to high net worth families relying on legal and mediation backgrounds. Fluent in best practice Income and Transfer Tax planning. Experienced Nonprofit Coach and Manager. Grant served on the board of National Association of Charitable Gift Planners (CGP) from 2020 to 2023. He serves on the CGP Mentor/Mentee Panel and is a member of the Speaker’s Bureau. In 2014 he served on the Leadership Institute Implementation Taskforce. He is a former Planned Giving Group of New England (PGGNE) president and most recently served on the PGGNE Nominating Committee.At Harvard, in addition to frontline work completing irrevocable and revocable gifts with donors across the giving pyramid, Grant led the institution's John Harvard Society, the University’s largest planned gift recognition effort. In the University’s $9.2 billion campaign (2018), he managed initiatives that led to more than 1,000 alumni and friends becoming new members. Before coming to Harvard, Grant launched the planned giving program at Lesley University and led the program through the institution’s first comprehensive campaign. Earlier, he established a neutral dispute resolution practice in Cambridge, MA. He is a member of the Massachusetts and New York Bars. Grant earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University where he remains an active alumnus. Locally, he volunteers in several capacities.
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