Female donors tend to give from the heart, but it’s still important to involve them intellectually.

By Paul Barbagallo

The 1990s marked a turning point in how nonprofit organizations regard women donors — as a financially high-powered cadre poised to give unprecedented amounts of time and money to charity.

Today, women own more than half the nation’s investment wealth and can be expected to accumulate even greater wealth as they increase their earned income and inherit much of the predicted $10 trillion intergenerational transfer of wealth in the coming decades, according to the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, a national organization dedicated to supporting women as philanthropic leaders.