Stephen Dent
As a child, Stephen Dent excelled in school, especially in the subjects of history, geography and science. Expressing an interest in global politics as a member of his high school debate team was an obvious foreshadowing of a future to come in the world of global nonprofit and charity policy in the United States.
With a father who was a corporate attorney and a mother who worked as a nurse in county hospitals, Stephen Dent had heard a great deal about both sides of the economic and class coin by the time he was a teenager. He understood that many of the clients represented by his father did not have the best intentions for the “little guy” and that what his mother dealt with at work every day were the people on the bottom of society’s food chain, awaiting a second chance at life.
Later as a college student, Stephen Dent decided to take a stand and attempt to make a difference for the people who he felt had always been on the wrong side of the fight. Underdogs who society had cast aside needed proper representation and needed a hand up, not a hand out. After college, Stephen began the voyage of understanding how a charity should work. What he unfortunately discovered was that the way a charity should work and the way most charities do work is many times not in alignment.
To that end, Stephen Dent began consulting consumers on how to choose a charity based on how much they actually give to their chosen cause versus how much they keep as profit and whether or not they meet national and international criteria for nonprofit groups.
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