Though she’s always lived in California, Allison knew her family roots extended back to Colonial Virginia. When her genealogical research uncovered her family’s history of enslavement, she decided to take her inheritance and invest it back into Virginia’s Black communities.

Sarah Arenstein Levy and Greg Gallop, who are experts in donor advising and community engagement respectively, share more about the Giving Store and why it has become a popular way for donors to fund urgent needs in our community.