Giving Across
Generations
An experience convened by Generosity Path and TrustBridge, with the Maclellan Foundation, exploring how families build generosity that lasts a century.
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM SGT
Singapore
and TrustBridge
Foundation
About this gathering
Generosity Path and TrustBridge invite you to a focused morning on how families steward wealth across generations.
TrustBridge helps donors and families give internationally with confidence through trusted, compliant giving solutions.
The session is built around time together with other families in the same journey, and hearing from the Maclellan Foundation and the story of how $1 billion in total grants have been given on a cumulative, inflation-adjusted basis over its 100-year history.
Nicola James, Director for Global Programs at the Maclellan Foundation, will share an overview of the Foundation's strategy for strengthening ministries and building local sustainability. Maclellan, together with the giving collaboration it serves, seeks to help ministries become stronger, healthier, and better equipped to fulfill the calling God has placed upon them. Alongside this, it works to encourage local generosity, releasing the resources needed to support Kingdom work. Her session is followed by a Q&A on how the programming actually works, the frameworks, and the strategic calls behind it.
Why the Maclellan story matters
The Maclellan story begins in the late 1800s with Thomas Maclellan, founder of Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who built systematic giving into the family rhythm from the start. Across four generations, the family refined what strategic Christian philanthropy looks like at institutional scale.
The Maclellan Foundation, formally established in 1945, has been a quiet but profound force behind many of the most consequential global ministry initiatives of the past 80 years, from Bible translation to indigenous missions, leadership development, and church planting. Over its history the wider family enterprise has deployed roughly one billion dollars into advancing the gospel globally, and helped seed adjacent institutions including Generous Giving and the broader generosity movement.
What makes the story instructive is not the scale of the giving. It is the discipline of it. A multi-generational view, married to rigorous strategic analysis and deep theological conviction. For families in Asia thinking about how to steward wealth across generations, there are few stories more useful to learn from.
What you will take away
- 1The multi-generational giving framework used to plan future sustainability in Kingdom work
- 2Practical structures for family foundations, covering governance and succession
- 3How to bring the next generation into giving decisions without losing focus or unity
- 4Best practices already being applied by Asian families building generational architectures here in the region
- 5A curated peer network of principals, trustees, and advisers facing the same questions
Programme
An intimate room, by design
Beyond the headline session, the real value of the morning sits in the room itself. Seats are limited and deliberately curated so that principals, trustees, and advisers can meet each other properly, not just observe from a distance.
- Facilitated table conversations where you work through your own governance and succession questions with peers
- An unhurried lunch built for the conversations that matter more than the agenda
- Warm introductions across the room, so you leave with relationships, not just notes
Who this is for
RSVP
Reserve your seat below. This is a closed gathering. We ask that attendees come ready to participate, not just observe. Chatham House rules apply to all conversations.
Reserve Your SeatGenerosity is not a campaign. It is a generational rhythm. The families who get this right do not give from leftover capacity.