About

Anne E. Nash, J.D., is the Principal and Owner of My Giving Advisor, LLC, a philanthropic advising firm located in Lexington, Kentucky. Nash is also the Philanthropy Columnist for Business Lexington, a bimonthly regional newspaper.

Nash retired as Executive Director of Blue Grass Community Foundation in June of 2009. While at BGCF, Nash grew foundation assets from $20 million to $40 million and increased grant making from $1 million to over $3.5 million annually. Previously, Nash had been Senior Gift Planning Advisor at The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia, one of the nation’s largest non profits.

Before that, she was Director of Complex Gifts at The Nature Conservancy, where she headed a senior team of gift planners located throughout the U.S. With over twenty years of gift planning and fund raising experience, Nash is a frequent speaker at estate planning councils, planned giving councils, and fund raising forums.

She has published articles on real estate gifts and on charitable remainder trusts in the Journal of Gift Planning.

Nash is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Kentucky and has a law degree from the University of Kentucky Law School. She is a past president of Central Kentucky Planned Giving Council and the Lexington Chapter of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals.

Prior to her non profit career, Nash practiced law in Lexington.