Alison Patterson
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Thank you so much.
I'm so grateful to just be here.
So I have been in the not-for-profit world for over 25 years, the last 25 years.
Grew up in a small town in southeastern Kentucky.
And through my journey going into college and beyond that, generosity was kind of always just a part of my life.
I was working in Washington, D.C., right out of college.
And I had this moment of clarity where I was like, this is not where I want to be.
So I moved to Kansas City, Missouri, and got my master's degree in nonprofit development and started working in that section of college.
work.
And I spent 25 years with small to medium nonprofits, just helping them as a development officer, asking folks for money, doing this.
And so finally, there became a point where I just kept saying,
something's not right.
This doesn't feel authentic.
There's got to be a better way.
And that's really what I always kind of say, which is there's got to be a better way.
There's got to be a better way.
And so I started looking at the women in particular, but humans that I really admired in the way they were giving.
and how they were doing things differently.
And so I started Patterson Philanthropic Advisors in 2019, just before the pandemic, to just empower everyday people with the resources that they have to go out there and create change in the world.
That's my story.
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