George interviews Michael Coppes, who will be organizing a number of Golden Civilization Conversations in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, which George will co-lead when he visits in January.
Listen to their conversation about a Golden Civilization Conversation that Mike and his wife led with their friends, colleagues, and family; the upcoming Conversations that will be occurring in Hawaii; how Mike has been working on applying Life Planning to his philanthropic work; and George recounts his experiences from Conversations in Mumbai, Tokyo and Singapore.
Mike is the Director of the Office of Estate and Gift Planning at the University of Hawai‘i Foundation, where he provides estate and gift planning counsel to the UH ‘ohana and friends on tax-smart strategies for philanthropic support of the University. He is a licensed attorney, retired from private practice in 2008 after 30 years of practice focused on wills, trusts, estate administration, general probate law, and advising non-profits on charitable gift planning. Mike's charitable gift planning expertise encompasses charitable bequests, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, business and real estate planning, and charitable gift annuities. Mike was also certified by the Indiana Supreme Court as a civil law mediator, and is a former Master Commissioner of the Marion County (Indiana) Superior Court, Probate Division.
You can read more about Mike here: https://www.uhfoundation.org/about/departments/estate_and_gift_planning/coppes