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.
Fran Taylor joined My Giving Advisor, LLC in 2011 as a principal. Taylor specializes in strategic partnerships, corporate philanthropy/sponsorship, community engagement and market development. Taylor retired as Executive Director of the Keeneland Foundation and market development administrator earlier in 2011 after 15 years with the internationally known Thoroughbred racing and auction sales company.
While at Keeneland she orchestrated disaster relief efforts and corporate partnerships to net more than $10 million in outside funding for various nonprofit agencies and grew the corporate sponsorship program to gross nearly $2 million annually.
Before coming to Keeneland, Taylor was vice-president of account services for Meridian Communications (1982 – 1995) where she specialized in destination marketing, corporate image assessment and repositioning strategies for a diverse client mix. Her clients won over 30 regional, national and international awards.
Winner of the 2010 Independent Book Publisher’s national gold award and a finalist for the 2010 Ben Franklin award, Taylor is an accomplished author, publishing numerous articles on a variety of subjects and three books. She is a 1975 graduate of Transylvania University and lives in Lexington and Sadieville, Kentucky. Taylor is active in the Bluegrass community and serves on numerous civic boards including capital campaign leadership roles.