South Carolina Business Review

Planning your giving

By Mike Switzer

Published February 16, 2022 at 5:30 AM EST

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An important part of financial planning is estate planning and an important part of both can be charitable giving. Our next guest’s organization stays busy helping non-profit fundraising professionals, attorneys, and financial advisors stay informed on this topic. Mike Switzer interviews Beth Wingard, president emeritus of the South Carolina Planned Giving Council in Chapin, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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